October 2, 2001 - April 31, 2002

As is now well-known, advanced industrial countries throughout the world are experiencing a massive and historic growth in inequality, yet the sources of this trend are by no means fully understood.

Although the rise in inequality reflects, in part, the operation of market and institutional forces over which governments have little direct control, it is equally clear that governments can intervene decisively in the distribution of income and other valued goods; and it is accordingly important to ask whether the welfare state policies of advanced industrial societies have served in recent decades to either dampen or strengthen the forces for inequality.

This interest in state-level policy will be explored through an interdisciplinary program of activities including a seminar series, workshop, and research fellowships.

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Luigi Einaudi Lecture: "Work and Welfare in European Welfare State in the Era of Globalization"
4:30pm (Guerlac Room, A.D. White House)

Jens Alber
University of Konstanz
Department of Politics and Management

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"Welfare and Inequality in Germany and the United States"
4:30 pm - 153 Uris Hall

Jens Alber
University of Konstanz
Department of Politics and Management

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"What Can Governments Do to Reduce Poverty in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union?"
4:30 pm - 105 Ives Hall

John Micklewright
European University Institute, Florence
Department of Economics

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"Do Affluent Countries Face an Income-Jobs Tradeoff?"
4:30 pm - 302 Uris Hall

Lane Kenworthy
Emory University
Department of Sociology

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"Five Years of U.S. Welfare Reform: What Have We Learned?"
3:00 pm - Doherty Lounge, 280 Ives Hall

Rebecca Blank
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Department of Economics

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"Welfare State at Crossroads: The Swedish Experience of the 1990s"
4:30 pm - G-08 Uris Hall

Joakim Palme
University of Stockholm
Institute for Social Research

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Title to be announced

Giuseppe Bertola, European University Institute, Department of Economics

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Title to be announced
Time and room to be announced

Gordon Clark
Oxford University
Department of Geography

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Title to be announced
1:00 pm - room to be announced

Richard Freeman
Harvard University
Department of Economics

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• Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Department of Economics
• Jens Alber, University of Konstanz, Department of Public Policy and Management
• Geoffrey Garrett, Yale University, Department of Political Science
• Torben Iversen, Harvard University, Department of Government
• Bruce Western, Princeton University, Department of Sociology
• Lane Kenworthy, Emory University, Department of Sociology
• Michael Wallerstein, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
• John Stephens, University of North Carolina, Departments of Political Science and Sociology
• David Rueda, Binghamton University, Department of Political Science

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Martin Biewen
University of Essex and University of Heidelberg
Department of Economics

Pablo Gonzalez Alvarez
Nuffield College
Department of Sociology