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Thursday, June 6 Afternoon
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Chair: |
Thomas Bauer (IZA) |
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WAGE DIFFERENTIALS, MOBILITY AND TECHNOLOGY |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Peter Dolton (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
"Computer literacy, labour market destinations and earnings" |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
Winfried Koeniger (IZA)
"Defensive Innovations" |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE and IZA)
"Wages, job mobility, and firm performance" |
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17:30 - 18:30 |
Andrew Clark (CRNS, DELTA)
"Looking for market rents with subjective data" |
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Dinner |
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Thursday, June 6 Evening
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Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, Bonn University, DIW Berlin and Free University of Berlin) |
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THE VALUES OF LIFE |
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Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University and IZA)
"Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life"
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Friday, June 7 Morning
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Chair: |
Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University) |
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LABOR MOBILITY |
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08:30 - 09:30 |
Lilo Locher (IZA and Bonn Graduate School of Economics)
"Determining the shape of a migration wave"
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09:30 - 10:30 |
Ira Gang (Rutgers University and IZA)
"Herd effects or migration networks: location choices of Mexican immigrants in the US" |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Lars Vilhuber (York University Canada and US Census Bureau)
"Displaced workers, early leavers, and re-employment wages" |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Wolter Hassink (Utrecht University)
"Search frictions and the nature of adjustment of labour" |
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13:00 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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Friday, June 7 Afternoon
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Chair: |
Winfried Koeniger (IZA) |
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SCHOOLING AND THE LABOR MARKET |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Ian Walker (University of Warwick and IZA)
"Education choices under uncertainty" |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
Robert Allen Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Life cycle fertility and investment in human capital" |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
Olivier Deschenes (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Estimating the effects of family background on the return to schooling" |
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17:30 - 18:30 |
Coen Teulings (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute)
"Education and efficient redistribution" |
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19:00 |
Dinner
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Friday, June 7 Evening
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Christoph Schmidt (University of Heidelberg and IZA) |
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SCHOOLING AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS |
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Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania and IZA)
"Using experimental data to validate a dynamic behavioral model of child schooling assessing the impact of a school subsidy program in Mexico"
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Saturday, June 8 Morning
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Chair: |
Hielke Buddelmeyer (IZA) |
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LABOR SUPPLY AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS |
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08:30 - 09:30 |
Astrid Kunze (IZA)
"Wage dips and drops around first birth"
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09:30 - 10:30 |
Richard Burkhauser (Cornell University)
"Employment of working-age people with disabilities in the 1980s and 1990s" |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Jochen Kluve (University of California, Berkeley and IZA)
"Why not stay at home? Determinants of nest-leaving behavior in Germany and Spain" |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Robert Flanagan (Standford University)
"Labor Standards and International Competitive Advantage" |
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13:00 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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Saturday, June 8 Afternoon
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Chair: |
Holger Bonin (IZA) |
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RESERVATION WAGES & UNEMPLOYMENT POLICY |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Miles Corak (Statistics Canada, Carleton University and IZA)
"Firms, industries, and unemployment insurance" |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen and IZA)
"Does subsidized employment get the unemployed back to work?" |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
Michelle Alexopolous (University of Toronto)
"Wealth, reservation wages, and labor market transitions in the US" |
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17:30 - 18:30 |
Peter Mueser (University of Missouri)
"Welfare to temporary work: implications for labor market outcomes" |
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Saturday, June 8 Evening
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Conference Dinner |
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