European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE)

Hosted by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Ammersee, 11 – 14 September 2002

 

Wednesday 11 September
14:15 – 15:30	Session One
	Wage Bargaining with ON-the-Job Search: A Structural Econometric Model Pierre Cahuc (Université de Paris I and CEPR) *Jean-Marc Robin (INRA and CEPR) Fabien Postel-Vinay (INRA and CEPR)
16:00 – 17:15	Session Two
	The Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies for Low-Wage Workers on Firms Level Decisions *Bruno Crépon (CREST-INSEE) Rozenn Desplatz (EUREQua, Université de Paris 1)
17:15 – 18:30	Session Three
	Incomplete Wage Posting *Claudio Michelacci (Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies) Javier Suarez (Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies)
21:00 – 22:15	Session Four
	Have Internet Changed the Wage Structure Too? Jong-Hyuk Kim (University of Hawaii) *Sang-Hyop Lee (University of Hawaii)
Thursday 12 September
09:30 – 10:45	Session 5
	Entrepreneurship *Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
10:45 – 12:00	Session Six
	Interpreting Europe and US Labour Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments *Etienne Wasmer (ECARES and CEPR)
14:15 – 15:30	Session Seven
	Labour Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities Sarit Cohen (Bar-Ilan University) *Zvi Eckstein (University of Minnesota and CEPR)
	Waiting for Mr Right: Inequality, Marriage and Divorce from a Search Perspective *Eric D Gould (Hebrew University and CEPR) Marco Daniele Paserman (Hebrew Unversity)
17:15 – 18:30	Session Nine
	Sorting Workers Between and Within Industries Tables available John M Abowd (Cornell University, US Census Bureau, CREST, NBER and IZA) *Francis Kramarz (IZA, CREST and CEPR) Paul Lengermann (University of Maryland and US Census Bureau) Sébastien Pérez-Duarte (CREST-INSEE)
21:00 – 22:15	Session Ten
	Outside Offers and the Gender Pay Gap: Empirical Evidence from the UK Academic Labour Market David Blackaby (University of Wales, Swansea) *Alison Booth (Australian National University) Jeff Frank (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Friday 13 September
09:30 – 10:45	Session Eleven
	Information Technology and the Knowledge of Elites *Gilles Saint-Paul (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and CEPR)
10:45 – 12:00	Session Twelve
	Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-job Search, and Persistent Unemployment Stefan Eriksson *Nils Gottfries (Uppsala University)
14:15 – 15:30	Session Thirteen
	Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation: The Italian Puzzle Sascha O Becker (CESifo, Munich) *Samuel Bentolila (CEMFI and CEPR) Andrea Ichino (European University Institute)
16:00 – 17:15	Session Fourteen
	The Struggle over Migration Policy *Gil S Epstein (Bar-Ilan University and CEPR) Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University)
17:15 – 18:30	Session Fifteen
	Sabotage, loss Aversion and Collusion as Sources of Wage Compression *Armin Falk (Universität Zürich and CEPR) Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich, IEW)
21:00 – 22:15	Session Sixteen
	Cannabis, Cocaine, Jobs and Wages *Jan C Van Ours (CentER, Tilburg and CEPR)
Saturday 14 September
09:30 – 10:45	Session Seventeen
	Capital as an Origin of Inequality Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR) Philippe Aghion (Harvard University and CEPR) Steve Machin (University College London and CEPR) *Giovanni L Violante (University College London and CEPR)
10:45 – 12:00	Session Eighteen
	Shadow Activity and Unemployment in a Depressed Labour Market *Tito Boeri (Università Bocconi and CEPR) Pietro Garibaldi (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and CEPR)
14:15 – 15:30	Session Nineteen
	The Dynamics of Local Employment in France Pierre-Philippe Combes (CNRS and CERAS, Paris) *Thierry Magnac (INRA and CEPR) Jean-Marc Robin (INRA, CREST and CEPR, Paris)
16:00 – 17:15	Session Twenty
	Fixed Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment Maia Güell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
17:15 – 18:30	Session Twenty-One
	Does the Representation of Family Decision Process Matter? A Collective Model of Household Labour Supply for the Evaluation of Personal Tax Reform in Spain Tables available *Raquel Carrasco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR) Javier Ruiz-Castillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
21:00 – 22:15	Session Twenty-Two
	Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes *Michael Gerfin (University of Bern) Michael Lechner (University of St Gallen) Heidi Steiger (University of St Gallen)
*denotes speaker
Organizers:	Juan J Dolado, Gilles Saint-Paul and Klaus F Zimmermann