Society and Solidarity
25/08/2015
The Vienna Institute of Demography, in cooperation with the Consortium Board of the Generations and Gender Programme, are delighted to announce the 3rd GGP User Conference. This international conference aims to bring together researchers working with data from the Generations and Gender Survey and the GGP Contextual Database, and invites them to present and discuss their most recent methodological approaches and empirical findings. The conference provides a forum for exchange of ideas among existing as well as new GGP users, policy makers and the research community at large.
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25/08/2015
2016 Annual Meeting at Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.
March 31 – April 2
Pre-registration fees:
Members: $167.00
Students: $66.00
Non-members: $305.00
Student non-members: $131.00
The preliminary program will be posted January 2016
Visit the Washington, D.C. Convention and Visitors Association for information on restaurants, things to do, and places to go
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16/06/2015
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalising world. It draws on original, largely field-based contributions by authors across a range of disciplinary provenances worldwide.
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11/05/2015
Every two years, the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP) publishes a report on the state of the Italian Population. This year's report provides a careful insight of the effects of the economic crisis on several demographic indicators.
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23/03/2015
An analytical report prepared by Asghar Zaidi and David Stanton under the joint management project by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) was launched on 16 April 2015 at an International Seminar “Building an evidence base for active ageing policies: the Active Ageing Index and its potential”. [...]
05/02/2015
This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions.
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