Second IZA Prize Conference - Frontiers in Labor Economics

Sunday, October 23:

09:30				Welcome address by Armin Falk (IZA and University of Bonn)
09:30	-	10:30		James J. Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA*)), Jora Stixrud (University of Chicago), Sergio Urzua (University of Chicago)
				"The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Outcomes and Social Behavior"
10:30	-	11:30		Gerard J. van den Berg (University of Groningen and IZA*))
				"An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation"
11:30	-	11:45		Coffee Break +++ Coffee Break +++
11:45	-	12:45		Hartmut Lehmann (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and IZA*)), Norberto Pignatti (University of Bologna and IZA), Jonathan Wadsworth (University of London and IZA)
				"The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market"
12:45	-	13:45		Lunch Break +++ Lunch Break +++
13:45	-	14:45		Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA*)), Thomas Dohmen (IZA)
				"Sorting, Incentives and Performance"
14:45	-	16:15		Poster Session +++ Coffee Break +++ Poster Session Holger Bonin (IZA) "Is the Labor Demand Curve Downward-Sloping?" Thomas Dohmen (IZA), Armin Falk (IZA), David Huffman (IZA), Uwe Sunde (IZA), Jürgen Schupp (DIW Berlin), Gert.G. Wagner (DIW Berlin) "Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey" David Huffman (IZA), Lorenz Goette (University of Zurich and IZA) and Stephan Meier (Federal Reserve Bank; Boston) "The Impact of Social Interaction on Cooperation, Trust, and Norm Enforcement: Evidence from a (Battle-)Field Experiment with Swiss Army Officers" Winfried Koeniger (IZA) "Labor Hoarding and Product Market Regulation" Uwe Sunde (IZA), Armin Falk (IZA) and David Huffman (IZA) "Do I have what it takes? The Consequences of Uncertainty about One's Type for Search Behavior"
16:15	-	17:15		Dale T. Mortensen (Northwestern University and IZA*)), Eva Nagypal (Northwestern University)
				"More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations"
18:30	-	20:15		Guided Tour Deutscher Reichstag
20:30				Conference Dinner

Monday, October 24:

10:00	-	11:00		Christopher A. Pissarides (London School of Economics and IZA*)), L. Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)
				"Trends in Labour Supply and Economic Growth"
11:00	-	12:00		Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA*)), Yann Algan (University of Marne la Vallée and IZA)
				"Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries can implement the Danish Model?"
12:00	-	13:00		Tito Boeri (Bocconi University and IZA*)), Pietro Garibaldi (University of Turin and IZA), Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University Berlin and IZA)
				"Tinkering in the Dark with the Mortensen and Pissarides Model"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch Break +++ Lunch Break +++
14:15				Lunch Speech by Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University) "The Future of the Unions"
19:00				IZA Prize Award Ceremony