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16th IZA/CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE)

Organizers: Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich, CEPR and IZA)
Location:Deutsche Post DHL Conference Center, Breitbrunner Str. 26, 82266 Inning, Germany
Date:September 03, 2014 - September 06, 2014

Event Manager:

Dominik Spitza (IZA)



Program

+++ presentation: 45 minutes +++ floor discussion: 15 minutes +++

Wednesday, September 03:

 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Thursday, September 04:

13:15 - 13:30   Welcoming Remarks
Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich, CEPR and IZA)
 
 
13:30 - 14:30   Christina Gathmann (Heidelberg University and IZA), Uta Schönberg (University College London and IZA)
  "Spillover Effects in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Mass Layoffs"
 
14:30 - 15:30   Juan J. Dolado (European University Institute, CEPR and IZA), Antonio Cabrales (University College London and CEPR), Ricardo Mora (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  "Dual Labour Market and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: Evidence for Spain and Other EU Countries Using PIAAC Data"
 
 
15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break
 
 
16:00 - 17:00   Javier Ortega (City University London and IZA), Gregory Verdugo (Bank of France and IZA)
  "The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence"
 
 
17:15 - 18:30   Poster Session
 
    Christian Fons-Rosen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR), Michael Ewens (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation"
 
    Thomas Le Barbanchon (CREST), Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, CEPR and IZA), Stephane Carcillo (OECD and IZA)
  "Do Hiring Credits Work in Recessions? Evidence from France"
 
    Ankita Patnaik (Cornell University)
  "Reserving Time for Daddy: The Short- and Long-run Consequences of Daddy Quotas"
 
    Andrea Bassanini (OECD and IZA), Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova and IZA), Eve Caroli (Université Paris-Dauphine and IZA)
  "Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals"
 
    Kristiina Huttunen (Aalto University and IZA), Katariina Nilsson Hakkala (Aalto University)
  "Displacing Tasks: Understanding the Employment Effects of Offshoring"
 
    Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut and IZA), Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego)
  "Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India"
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Friday, September 05:

09:00 - 10:00   Stefania Albanesi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CEPR), Maria Prados (University of Southern California)
  "Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation: The Role of Rising Income Inequality"
 
10:00 - 11:00   Pietro Garibaldi (University of Turin, CEPR and IZA), Tito Boeri (Bocconi University, CEPR and IZA), Espen R. Moen (BI - Norwegian Business School and CEPR)
  "Severance Pay"
 
 
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break
 
 
11:30 - 12:30   Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol), Regis Barnichon (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
  "Under-Employment and the Trickle-Down of Unemployment"
 
 
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
 
 
13:30 - 14:30   Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University, CEPR and IZA), Myrthe Frenk (VODW Consultants, Amsterdam)
  "Firing Costs and Labor Demand in Recessions"
 
 
14:30 - 15:00   Coffee Break
 
 
15:00 - 16:00   Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Nottingham and IZA), Paul Bingley (The Danish National Centre for Social Research), Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and IZA)
  "Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality"
 
 
16:15 - 18:00   Poster Session
 
    Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA), Pedro Carneiro (University College London and IZA), Kjell G. Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA)
  "How Does Labor Demand React to Changes in the supply of Skills? Evidence from Schooling Reforms"
 
    Santosh Kumar (Sam Houston State University), Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University, CEPR and IZA)
  "Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India"
 
    Steffen Künn (IZA), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA), Robert Mahlstedt (IZA)
  "The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evalutaion of Relocation Assitance for the Unemployed"
 
    Giulio Zanella (University of Bologna), Peter Rupert (University of California, Santa Barbara and IZA)
  "Grandchildren and their Grandparents' Labor Supply"
 
    Ulf Zölitz (Maastricht University), Jan Feld (Gothenburg University)
  "Understanding Peer Effects – On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects"
 
    Jonas Maibom (Aarhus University), Torben M. Andersen (Aarhus University and IZA), Michael Svarer (Aarhus University and IZA), Allan Sorensen (Aarhus University)
  "Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?"
 
    Peter Haan (DIW Berlin), Victoria Prowse (Cornell Univeristy and IZA)
  "Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings"
 
    Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po, Paris), Christian Siegel (University of Exeter)
  "Job Polarization and Structural Change"
 
    Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)
  "Why Does Difference In Difference Matching Work?"
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Saturday, September 06:

09:00 - 10:00   Erich Battistin (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA), Joshua D. Angrist (MIT and IZA), Daniela Vuri (University of Rome Tor Vergata and IZA)
  "In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno"
 
10:00 - 11:00   David A. Jaeger (CUNY Graduate Center), Theodore J. Joyce (CUNY Graduate Center), Sean Crockett (CUNY Graduate Center), Onur Altindag (CUNY Graduate Center), Stephen D. O'Connell (CUNY Graduate Center)
  "Does Classroom Time Matter? A Randomized Field Experiment in Principles of Microeconomics"
 
 
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break
 
 
11:30 - 12:30   Stefano Verzillo (University of Milan), Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and IZA), Gianni De Fraja (University of Nottingham and CEPR)
  "Publish of Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia"
 
 
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
 
 
13:30 - 14:30   Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich and IZA), Gregori Baetschmann (University of Zurich)
  "An Empirical Model of Health Care Demand under Non-Linear Pricing"
 
14:30 - 15:30   Winfried Koeniger (University of St. Gallen, CEPR and IZA), Julien Prat (CREST, CEPR and IZA)
  "Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution"
 
 
18:00       Barbecue
 
 




Participants

Stefania Albanesi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CEPR)
Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po, Paris)
Andrea Bassanini (OECD and IZA)
Erich Battistin (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA)
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)
Juan J. Dolado (Universdad Carlos III de Madrid, CEPR and IZA)
Christian Fons-Rosen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
Pietro Garibaldi (University of Turin, CEPR and IZA)
Christina Gathmann (Heidelberg University and IZA)
Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
Peter Haan (DIW Berlin)
Kristiina Huttunen (Aalto University and IZA)
David A. Jaeger (CUNY Graduate Center)
Winfried Koeniger (University of St. Gallen, CEPR and IZA)
Steffen Künn (IZA)
Thomas Le Barbanchon (CREST)
Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics)
Jonas Maibom Pedersen (Aarhus University)
Javier Ortega (City University London and IZA)
Ankita Patnaik (Cornell University)
Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University, CEPR and IZA)
Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut and IZA)
Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Nottingham and IZA)
Stefano Verzillo (University of Milan)
Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich and IZA)
Giulio Zanella (University of Bologna)
Ulf Zölitz (Maastricht University)
Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich, CEPR and IZA)
Yanos Zylberberg (CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)




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