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Anniversary Conference: Frontiers in Labor Economics

Organizer: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)
Location:Petersberg, Bonn
Date:November 30, 2008 - December 01, 2008

Event Manager:

Ulrike Maurer (IZA)

Program


+++ presentation: 30 minutes +++ discussion: 10 minutes +++ floor discussion: 20 minutes +++

Saturday, November 29:

19:00 Informal Dinner, Maritim Hotel Königswinter, Restaurant Rheinterrassen

Sunday, November 30:

09:00 - 09:45   Coffee/Tea
 
09:45 - 10:00   Welcome by Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)

Remarks of the Research Director Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
 
10:00        
  Chair: Bob Gregory (Australian National University)
 
10:00 - 11:00   Susan Vroman (Georgetown University), James Albrecht (Georgetown University and IZA), Anders Björklund (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA)
  "Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 - 2000"
  Discussant: Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
 
11:00 - 12:00   Ana Rute Cardoso (IAE Barcelona (CSIC)), Paulo Guimaraes (Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)
  "Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA"
  Discussant: Dennis J. Snower (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
 
12:00 - 13:00   Lunch
 
12:59        
  Chair: Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (Australian National University)
 
13:00 - 14:00   Lex Borghans (Maastricht University), Bart Golsteyn (Maastricht University and IZA)
  "Human Capital Accumulation over the Life-Cycle: Reasons for and Costs of Learning at a Later Age"
  Discussant: Armin Falk (University of Bonn)
 
14:00 - 15:00   Gerard J. van den Berg (Free University of Amsterdam), Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
  "Aging and Heterogeneity in the Analysis of Mortality"
  Discussant: Christoph M. Schmidt (RWI Essen)
 
15:00 - 16:30   Coffee/Tea with Poster Session of IZA Staff
 
        Steffen Altmann (IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), David Huffman (Swarthmore College and IZA)
  "Contract Enforcement, Fairness, and Involuntary Unemployment"
 
        Melanie Khamis (IZA), Omar Arias (World Bank)
  "Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach"
 
        Douglas J. Krupka (IZA)
  "On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration"
 
        Arne Uhlendorff (IZA), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
  "Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Employment Stability: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach"
 
        Mutlu Yuksel (IZA), Adriana Kugler (University of Houston and IZA)
  "Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch"
 
        Zhong Zhao (IZA)
  "Bargaining Power and Intra-Household Time Allocation in Rural China - Using Gender of the Child as a Natural Experiment"
 
        Randall K. Q. Akee (IZA)
  "The Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) Dataset"
 
        Alexander Muravyev (IZA), Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna and IZA)
  "The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS)"
 
        Lutz C. Kaiser (IZA), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), Hilmar Schneider (IZA), Arne Uhlendorff (IZA), Gerard J. van den Berg (Free University of Amsterdam and IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)
"The IZA Evaluation Dataset"
 
        Nikos Askitas (IZA)
  "The International Data Service Center (IDSC) at IZA"
 
        Martin Kahanec (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn), Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC and IZA), Don J. De Voretz (Simon Fraser University and IZA), Liliya Gataullina (Free University of Berlin), Anzelika Zaiceva (IZA and University of Bologna)
  "Study on the Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities"
 
        Andreas Peichl (IZA), Ulf Rinne (IZA), Hilmar Schneider (IZA)
  "Evaluating Policy Reforms using IZAMOD"
 
16:30        
  Chair: Xiangquan Zeng (Renmin University of China)
 
16:30 - 17:30   Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Philippe Aghion (Harvard Univerity and IZA), Yann Algan (Science Po, IZA)
  "Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations"
  Discussant: Joachim Möller (IAB, Nürnberg)
 
17:30 - 18:30   Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin), Ana Rute Cardoso (IAE Barcelona and IZA), Jose Varejao (Universidade do Porto)
  "The Timing of Labor Demand"
  Discussant: Thomas K. Bauer (RWI Essen)
 
19:00       Departure to Conference Dinner
 
20:00       Conference Dinner including Dinner Speech
 

Monday, December 01:

09:00       Coffee/Tea and Welcome
 
09:00        
  Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, Georgetown University and IZA)
 
09:30       Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago and IZA)
Reflections on IZA
 
10:00 - 11:00   David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College), Roger Kelly (Bank of England)
  " Macroeconomic Literacy, Numeracy and the Implications for Monetary Policy"
  Discussant: Hilmar Schneider (IZA)
 
11:00 - 12:00   Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University)
  "Labor and the New Financial Disorder"
  Discussant: Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna)
 
12:00 - 13:00   Lunch
 
13:00        
  Chair: Ansgar H. Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
 
13:00 - 14:00   Stephen J. Nickell (University of Oxford)
  "Understanding Why Some Countries Work So Much Harder than Others"
  Discussant: Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University)
 
14:00 - 15:00   Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago), Paul W. Miller (University of Western Australia and IZA)
  "Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?"
  Discussant: Markus Frölich (University of Mannheim)
 




List of Participants

Alpaslan Akay (IZA)
Randall K.Q. Akee (IZA)
James Albrecht (Georgetown University)
Steffen Altmann (IZA)
Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Olivier Bargain (University College Dublin)
Thomas Bauer (RWI Essen)
Ansgar Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)
Niels-Hugo Blunch (Washington and Lee University)
Holger Bonin (ZEW Mannheim)
Lex Borghans (Maastricht University)
Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Marco Caliendo (IZA)
Ana Rute Cardoso (IAE Barcelona (CSIC))
Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Martin T. Clemens (IZA)
Deborah Cobb-Clark (Australian National University)
Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC and Georgetown University)
Werner Eichhorst (IZA)
Edward Elgar (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited)
Armin Falk (University of Bonn)
Gustav Feichtinger (Vienna University of Technology)
Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
Markus Frölich (University of Mannheim)
Bob Gregory (Australian National University)
Peter Haan (DIW Berlin)
Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
Richard Jackman (London School of Economics)
David A. Jaeger (CUNY Graduate Center)
Martin Kahanec (IZA)
Lutz C. Kaiser (IZA)
Michael Kendzia (IZA)
Melanie Khamis (IZA)
Douglas J. Krupka (IZA)
Erin L. Krupka (IZA)
Steffen Künn (IZA)
Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Richard Layard (London School of Economics)
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna)
Paul Marx (IZA)
Margaret Maurer-Fazio (Bates College)
Xin Meng (Australian National University)
Joachim Möller (IAB, Nürnberg)
Alexander Muravyev (IZA)
Stephen J. Nickell (Nuffield College)
Oivind Anti Nilsen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Andreas Peichl (IZA)
Gerard Pfann (Maastricht University)
Ulf Rinne (IZA)
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs (ILO, Geneva)
Ricarda Schmidl (IZA)
Christoph M. Schmidt (RWI Essen)
Hilmar Schneider (IZA)
Marc Schneider (IZA)
Kailing Shen (Xiamen University)
Zahra Siddique (IZA)
Dennis J. Snower (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University)
Massimiliano Tani (Macquarie University)
Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
Arne Uhlendorff (IZA)
Gerard van den Berg (Free University of Amsterdam)
Susan Vroman (Georgetown University)
Cécile Wetzels (University of Amsterdam)
Tim Williams (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited)
Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
Mutlu Yuksel (IZA)
Anzelika Zaiceva (University of Bologna and IZA)
Xiangquan Zeng (Renmin University of China)
Zhong Zhao (IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)