Dear Sir / Madam,


We would like to invite you to our upcoming event in the International Seminar series of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research:

On Thu 12.11.2020, 10:00 - 11:30 CET
Dr Rafael Labanino (Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz)
Title: No country for the unemployed - The political economy of unemployment insurance and pensions in Central and Eastern Europe

He will present his recent work on the political economy of unemployment insurance and pensions in Central and Eastern Europe. Using a political institutionalist framework and based on a new comparative qualitative dataset of economic and social policy reforms, the Liberalisation Dataset 1973-2013, he will outline a critical cases analysis that meticulously follows the politics of unemployment and pension reform processes in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Poland. The author will discuss how in a relatively short period, political decisions made at a critical juncture in history can lock in distinctive policy pathways in the long run.

You can find more about the event here: https://www.euro.centre.org/events/detail/3684
The event will take place online via zoom and for this we kindly ask you to register online so that you may receive the link for it: https://www.euro.centre.org/events/register/3684
Please feel free to disseminate this information in your professional network.

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards,

Ricardo Rodrigues