Events

ISER hosts seminars, conferences, training and workshops throughout the year.

Past events

988 events

Seminar

Basic Income: singles versus couples

Date and time: 3 June 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Maria Iacovou, ISER

Seminar

Adult deaths, poverty dynamics and demographic mobility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: evidence from a household panel survey

Date and time: 1 June 2009, 3:00pm–4:00pm
Presented by: Julian May (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Ian M. Timæus (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Seminar

Smooth mode regression

Date and time: 27 May 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: João Santos Silva, Department of Economics, University of Essex (joint with Gordon C.R. Kemp)

Seminar

Measurement error in spell durations from panel surveys: nature, causes and consequences

Date and time: 20 May 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Annette Jäckle, ISER

Seminar

Work Disability, Work and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

Date and time: 18 May 2009, 3:00pm–4:00pm
Presented by: Arthur van Soest (Centre, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Co-authors: Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, RAND

Seminar

Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences

Date and time: 11 May 2009, 3:00pm–4:30pm
Presented by: Walter Mueller (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany)

Seminar

To Know Science Is To Love It, but Why?

Date and time: 6 May 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Nick Allum, Department of Sociology (joint with Paul Stoneman, Department of Sociology)

Seminar

Ethnic minorities and non-response: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort and lessons for Understanding Society

Date and time: 29 April 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Jonathan Burton (ISER), Shirley Dex (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education)

Seminar

Mentoring and segregation: female-led firms and gender wage policies

Date and time: 27 April 2009, 3:00pm
Presented by: Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria) Co-author: Ana Rute Cardoso

Seminar

Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? Ethnic diversity and social participation of young people in England (joint with Elena Fumagalli, Unviersity of Venice)

Date and time: 22 April 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Laura Fumagalli (ISER, University of Essex)

Seminar Cancelled

All the right classes, but not necessarily in the right order : The problems of operationalising social class in cross-national research

Date and time: 20 April 2009, 3:00pm
Presented by: Eric Harrison (Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London)

Seminar

Access to flexible work and informal care

Date and time: 8 April 2009, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Mark Bryan

Seminar

The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and an application to Latin America (joint work with Jérémie Gignoux)

Date and time: 30 March 2009, 3:00pm–4:00pm
Presented by: Francisco Ferreira (Development Research Group, The World Bank)

Seminar

The determinants of participation in a disability-related welfare programme

Date and time: 25 March 2009, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Stephen Pudney (ISER)

Seminar

Why to choose a non-recommended school type? Determinants and consequences of the non-acceptance of teacher’s recommendations in Germany.

Date and time: 18 March 2009, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Henning Lohmann (ISER visitor, SOEP)

Seminar

Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Date and time: 16 March 2009, 4:00pm
Presented by: Pedro Portugal (Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) co-authors: Anabela Carneiro and Paulo Guimarães

Seminar

How research informs policy making: the example of a provide risk model and social exclusion

Date and time: 9 March 2009, 4:00pm
Presented by: Axel Heitmueller (Economic/Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit in Cabinet Office)<strong><em>Special Policy and Research Seminar</em></strong>

Seminar

Muslim Religiosity in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Date and time: 4 March 2009, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Ayse Güveli (Department of Sociology) and Lucinda Platt (Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Seminar

Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and Labour Market Outcomes: Analysis of Individual Level Panel Data

Date and time: 2 March 2009, 4:00pm–5:00pm
Presented by: Karl Taylor (Department of Economics, University of Sheffield) Co-author: Sarah Brown

Seminar

Selection by ability and long-term outcomes: Evidence from the UK “11-plus” lottery

Date and time: 25 February 2009, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono, ISER