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Wednesday 16 June

14:00

Registration

14:30

Minimum Income Protection Pre-Conference Session

14:30

Introduction: Minimum Income Protection in Flux

Ive Marx

14:45

Minimum Income Protection and the 2020 Targets

Katia Berti

15:15

Minimum Income Protection levels in the EU

Natascha van Mechelen

15:45

Nordic Social Assistance in a European perspective

Kenneth Nelson & Susan Kuivalainen

16:15

Coffee break

 

16:30

The role of minimum income protection systems within social security systems

Thomas Bahle

17:00

The failure of a social protection model : the cee/cis countries in the recession Jonathan Bradshaw & Emese Mayhew

18:30

Opening Dinner

20:30

Peter Saunders (Welcome and Introduction)

Joakim Palme (Keynote)

Thursday 17 June

9:00

Herwig Immervoll (Keynote)

9:30

Similar Measures to Cope with Similar Problems? The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Welfare State Reform

Barbara Vis, Kees van Kersbergen & Tom Hylands

10:00

The Welfare State as Crisis Manager? Tracking the Responses of Australian and Swedish Social Policy to Three Major Economic Crises

Alexandra Kaasch & Peter Starke

10:30

Coffee break

 

11:00

Responding to (the Threat of) Recession and Crisis: Australian Social Security Policy in Troubled Times

Peter Saunders & Chris Deeming

11:30

The test of an all-purpose social security system: How well does the Comprehensive Social Security Allowance (CSSA) Scheme in Hong Kong perform its income protection function during economic crises? 

Yu Cheung Wong Chan & Mariana Wai Yung

12:00

Fiscal sustainability and policy implications: a post-crisis analysis for the euro area 

Fabrizio Balassone, Jorge Cunha, Geert Langenus, Bernhard Manzke, Jeanne Pavot, Doris Prammer & Pietro Tommasino

12:30

Lunch

13:30

The Crisis Effects on Retirement in France and United-Kingdom, a Comparative Analysis

Christine Lagoutte & Ann Reimat 

Public Perceptions of the Causes of Poverty: Multilevel Analysis of European Nations

Johanna Kallio & Mikko Niemelä 

14:00

Path departure in mature welfare systems: The role of crises, policy failure and ideas for pension reform in Argentina

Camila Arza

Poverty in Norway - an exploration of consensual measures:

Tone Fløtten & Axel West Pedersen

 

 

14:30

How does the 1980-2003 wave of pension retrenchments help understanding the impact of the current economic crisis on social security systems? An Event History Analysis

Juan Fernandez

Social development in cities and the impact of the Nordic welfare regime ��" a comparative analysis

Tove Rasmussen, Jarko Rasinkangas & Anders Boggild Christensen

 

 

15:00

Prosperity-linked ensions : crisis of the ultimate polder myth?

Wiemer Salverda

 

 

Income Inequality and Poverty: Are the Nordic Countries still a Family of their Own?

Veili-Mati Ritakallio, Johan fritzell & Olof Backman

15:30

Coffee break

 

16:00

Anton Hemerijck (Keynote)

 

17:00

Board of governors Meeting (untill 19:00)

 

19:00

Dinner

 

Friday 18 June

 

9:00

Economic Crisis, unemployment and policy responses

Lutz Bellmann & Hans-Dieter gerner

 

The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU Judith Niehues, Clemens Fuest & Andreas Peichl

9:30

Income distribution and the effect of the financial crisis on the Italian and USA labour markted

Tindara Addabo & Anna Maccagnan

Common challenges, diverging solutions: Poverty outcomes of income redistribution schemes in European post-socialist countries

Markus Kainu

10:00

Social protection responses to the employment crisis in Italy in a comparative perspective

Stefano Sacchi & Federico Pancaldi

 

The minimum pension as an instrument of poverty protection in the defined contribution pension system ��" an example of Poland 

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak  & Paweł Strzelecki 

10:30

Coffee break

 

11:00

Economic crisis and automatic stabilizers 

Andreas Peichl

11:30

Ian Orton (Keynote)

The Issa Crisis Monitor : the impacts of the crisis on social security administrations

12:00

Farewell Lunch