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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

How Does Widowhood Affect Wellbeing? Results From 14 European Countries and Israel (Propensity Score Matching)

Maja Adena (WZB), Michal Myck (CenEA), and Monika Oczkowska (CenEA)

We study health related, social and material consequences related to the loss of a partner. The panel data for the current study is based on „Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).“ Causal inferences from observational data concerning the impact of a given treatment are often tricky since the assignment of treatments is typically not random. Matching methods attempt to approximate randomized controlled trials by specifying an “appropriate” control and treatment group.

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

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Martin Ehlert

ehlert [at] wzb.eu

The future of work

23 March 2016

34. Labour Process Conference

“Working Revolutions: Revolutionising Work” is the title of 34. International Labour Process Conference, hosted by the WZB from 4th to 6th April. 300 participants from 33 countries were presenting over 220 papers in 80 sessions about the worlds of work and labour. The annual conference is a major meeting point for the international research community interested in the developments and transformations of the worlds of work.

2016 ICON·S Conference

More than ever before, questions of movement, displacement and belonging, equality and inequality, borders and otherness have become hot-button issues worldwide. Public law--whether domestic, European or international--structures practices of inclusion and exclusion, borders and boundaries, and line-drawing in a variety of ways.

Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis an Céline Teney

24 March 2016

Wichtigster deutscher Nachwuchspreis

Professorin Céline Teney ist mit einem der zehn Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preise 2016 ausgezeichnet worden. Nach Stationen am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und an der Universität Harvard leitet die Integrationsforscherin und politische Soziologin eine Nachwuchsgruppe an der Universität Bremen. Die Jury des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und dem Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung vergebenen Preises hob die thematische Bandbreite und die methodische Exzellenz von Teney hervor.

Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht

Guest of the Research Group

Globalization, Work, and Production

lena.ulbricht [at] uni-hildesheim.de

Global Constitutionalism

Global Constitutionalism - Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (GlobCon) is a journal that seeks to promote a deeper understanding on the foundations, limitations and principles of political order and their dynamics over time on a global scale.

Our Discussion Papers

2017

Avbelj, Matej (2017): What Future for the European Union?. WZB Discussion Paper SP IV 2017-802. Berlin: WZB.

Shin, Yoon Jin (2017): Contextualized Cosmopolitanism. Human Rights Practice in South Korea. WZB Discussion Paper SP IV 2017-801. Berlin: WZB.

2016

Avbelj, Matej (2016): The Concept and Conceptions of Transnational and Global Law. WZB Discussion Paper SP IV 2016-801. Berlin: WZB.

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Berlin Colloquium on Global and Comparative Public Law

Presentations summer semester 2019:

April 18

April 25

May 2

May 9

May 16

May 23

June 6

June 13

June 20

Law‘s Conception of Politics and Political Conceptions of Law

The distinction between law and politics is central to modernity. Law and politics refer to each other and are structurally connected. But how exactly are they interconnected? Is law the result of political decision? Is politics, even the exercise of constituant power, legally constrained? To what extent is politics constituted by law?