IZA Workshop on Gender Convergence: Why Are Women Becoming More Like Men (and Men More Like Women) in the Labor Market?

Friday, April 04:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration
09:00	-	09:15		Welcome Address Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				Session A: Gender Convergence and Labor Supply
09:15	-	10:15		Joyce P. Jacobsen (Wesleyan University), Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan University and IZA), Mutlu Yuksel (Dalhousie University and IZA)
				"Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment"
10:15	-	11:15		Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University), Victoria Vernon (Empire State College)
				"Marriage Legislation and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use"
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Christina Hakanson (Sveriges Riksbank)
				"Solving the Puzzle - Hours Constraints, Technical Change and Female Labor Supply"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session B: Gender and Wage and Earning Gaps
14:00	-	15:00		Solomon Polachek (Binghamton University, New York ), Xu Zhang (State University of New York, Farmingdale), Xing Zhou (Nankai University)
				"A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy"
15:00	-	16:00		Elena Kotyrlo (Umeaa University), Magnus Wikström (Umea University), Niklas Hanes (Umea University)
				"Earnings and Employment: Gender and Ethnic Gaps in Families with Pre-school Age Children"
16:00	-	16:15		Coffee Break
16:15	-	17:15		Barry Hirsch (Georgia State University ), Julia Manzella (Georgia State University)
				"Who Cares - and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work"
19:30				Dinner

Saturday, April 05:

				Session C: Gender Interactions in the Labor Market
09:00	-	10:00		M. Daniele Paserman (Boston University ), Stefano Gagliarducci (University of Rome Tor Vergata and IZA)
				"Gender Interactions in Firm Hierarchies: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data"
10:00	-	11:00		Marco Paccagnella (Bank of Italy), Giacomo De Giorgi (Barcelona GSE and UAB), Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva and IZA)
				"Gender Complementarities in the Labor Market"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Session D: Family and Career Concerns
11:30	-	12:30		Shelly Lundberg (University of California, Santa Barbara)
				"Unequal Families: The Role of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session D: Family and Career Concerns (continued)
14:00	-	15:00		Susan Vroman (Georgetown University ), James Albrecht (Georgetown University and IZA), Peter Skogman Thoursie (Stockholm University)
				"Gender Log Wage Gaps and Parental Leave: Evidence from Sweden"
15:00	-	16:00		Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics )
				"The Family Gap in Climbing the Career Ladder - Evidence for the Private Sector in Norway"
16:00	-	17:00		Manuel Fernandez Sierra (University of Oxford), Sonia R. Bhalotra (University of Essex and IZA), Atheendar Venkataramani (Massachusetts General Hospital)
				"The Great Catch-Up: Women and Skill in Mexico "