| Tuesday
24 April
|
| Session
I
|
|
| 14.30
– 15.45 |
International
Integration and Labour Demand
The
figures for this paper are also
available
*Torben M Andersen (Universitet
Aarhus and CEPR)
Niels Haldrup (Universitet Aarhus)
Jan Rose Sørensen (Universitet Aarhus)
|
| Session
II
|
|
| 15.45
– 17.00 |
Unemployment
Compensation Finance and Labour Market Rigidity
*Pierre
Cahuc (EUREQua, CNRS, Université de Paris I and CREST–INSEE,
Paris)
Franck
Malherbet (CREST–INSEE, Paris)
|
| Session
III
|
|
| 17.30
– 18.45 |
The
Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of
Absenteeism During and After Probation
Andrea Ichino
(European University Institute, Firenze, IZA and CEPR)
*Regina
Riphahn (Universität Mainz, IZA and CEPR)
|
| Wednesday
25 April
|
| Session
I
|
|
| 09.30
– 10.45 |
What
is the Marginal Productivity of Apprentices?
Denis
Fougère (CREST/INSEE and CEPR)
*Wolfgang
Schwerdt (CREST, IZA, Université de Paris 1)
|
| Session
II
|
|
| 11.00
– 12.15 |
Organizational
Change and Wages: Evidence from a Linked
Employer-Employee Data
Set
*Thomas Bauer (IZA, Universität
Bonn and CEPR)
Stefan Bender (IAB, Nürnberg)
|
| Session
III
|
|
| 16.15
– 17.30 |
Wage Dispersion with Heterogeneous Firm Technologies and Worker
Abilities: An Equilibrium Job Search Model for Matched
Employer-Employee Data
Fabien Postel-Vinay (INRA–LEA,
Paris)
*Jean-Marc Robin (INRA–LEA,
CREST-INSEE, Paris, and CEPR)
|
| Session
IV
|
|
| 17.30
– 18.45 |
Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian
Steel Foundation
*Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Universität
Linz and CEPR)
|
| Session
V
|
|
| 21.30
– 22.15 |
Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Leif Danziger
(York University, Ontario)
*Shoshana
Neuman (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, and CEPR)
|
| Thursday
26 April
|
| Session
I
|
|
| 09.30
– 10.45 |
Employment
Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution
*Daniela Del Boca (Università di
Torino)
Silvia Pasqua (Università di
Torino)
|
| Session
II
|
|
| 11.00
–12.15 |
Geographical Wage Differentials, Welfare Benefits and Life Cycle
Migration Decisions
John Kennan (University of
Wisconsin, Madison)
*Jim Walker (University of Wisconsin, Madison, and IZA)
|
| Session
III
|
|
| 16.15
– 17.30 |
Probability
of Staying in Canada
*Don De Voretz (Simon Fraser
University)
Chona Iturralde (Human Resources Development, Canada)
|
| Session
IV
|
|
| 17.30
– 18.45 |
Health
Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits: An Econometric
Analysis
The
figures for this paper are
also available
*Rainer Winkelmann (IZA, Universität
Bonn and CEPR)
|
| 21.30
– 22.15 |
Health and Work of the Elderly: Subjective Health Measures, Reporting
Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work
Marcel Kerkhofs (Tilburg
University)
*Maarten Lindeboom (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
|
| Friday
27 April
|
| Session
I
|
|
| 09.30
– 10.45 |
Do
Stronger Incentives Increase Effort? Evidence from a Field
Experiment
*Ernst Fehr (Universität Zürich
and CEPR)
Lorenz Götte (Universität Zürich)
|
| Session
II
|
|
| 11.00
– 12.15 |
Minimum Wage Effects on Labour Market Outcomes under Search with
Bargaining
This paper is available on the NYU
site
*Christopher J Flinn (New York
University)
|
| Session
III
|
|
| 16.15
– 17.30
|
Brothers
in RAMS: Diffusion of the PC and the ‘New Economy’
*John
P Haisken-DeNew (Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
Berlin, and IZA)
Christoph
M Schmidt (University of Heidelberg and CEPR)
|
| Session
IV
|
|
| 17.30
– 18.45 |
Job
Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction
*Antonio
Menezes (Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Università Bocconi,
Milan)
|
| Session
V
|
|
| 21.30
– 22.15 |
What Determines the Reservation Wage? Theory and some New Evidence from
German Micro Data
*Eswar Prasad (International
Monetary Fund)
|
| Saturday
28 April
|
| Session
I
|
|
| 09.30
– 10.45 |
Recent
Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the
Atlantic
*Juan José Dolado (Universidad
Carlos III, Madrid, and CEPR)
Florentino Felgueroso (Universidad
de Oviedo)
|
| Session
II
|
|
| 11.00
– 12.15 |
Technical
Progress and Early Retirement
*Avner Ahituv
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Joseph
Zeira (The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
|
| Session
III
|
|
| 16.15
– 17.30 |
Wage
Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric
Evidence from the 1990s
*Patrick Puhani (Universität St
Gallen and CEPR)
|
| Session
IV
|
|
| 17.30
– 18.45 |
Tax
Incidence in Labour Markets with Tax Evasion
*Laszlo
Goerke (Universität Konstanz)
|