2nd CIER/IZA Annual Workshop: Research in Labor Economics

Thursday, October 07:

18:00				Informal Dinner at Restaurant "L'Oliva", Hotel Hilton Bonn

Friday, October 08:

08:00	-	08:30		Registration
08:30	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks by Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University) Xiangquan Zeng (CIER, Renmin University of China and IZA)
09:00				Session A: Migration in China. Recent Developments from the Analysis of RUMiCI Data
				Chair: Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China)
09:00	-	09:45		Elaine M. Liu (University of Houston), Paul Frijters (University of Queensland and IZA), Tao Sherry Kong (Australian National University), Xin Meng (Australian National University and IZA)
				"Risk Sharing Social Network among Chinese Migrant Workers: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
09:45	-	10:30		Olivier B. Bargain (University College Dublin), Alpaslan Akay (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University)
				"Positional Concerns and Migration Decisions of Rural-Urban Migrants in China. Status or Signal?"
10:30	-	10:45		Coffee Break
10:45				Session B: Reforms and Intergenerational Outcomes. The Case of China
				Chair: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
10:45	-	11:30		Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China), Hong Liu (Central University of Finance and Economics)
				"Parental Job Loss and Children's Health - Ten Years after Massive Layoff of SOE's Workers in China"
11:30	-	12:15		Maria Porter (University of Oxford), Albert Park (University of Oxford and IZA)
				"Housing Windfalls and Intergenerational Transfers in China"
12:15	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00				Session C: Wage and Income Gaps in China
				Chair: Xiangquan Zeng (Renmin University of China)
14:00	-	14:45		Lina Song (University of Nottingham), Simon Appleton (University of Nottingham), Qingjie Xia (Peking University)
				"Understanding the Causes of Widening Wage Gps in Urban China 1988-2002: Evidence from Quantile Analysis"
14:45	-	15:30		Yuhao Ge (Renmin University of China), Junsen Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong and IZA)
				"Female's Labor Participation and Gender Wage Gap in Hong Kong"
15:30	-	16:15		Junfu Zhang (Clark University), Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA)
				"Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff of Rural-Urban Migrants in China"
16:15	-	16:30		Coffee Break
16:30				Session D: Issues in Contemporary Urban China
				Chair: Olivier B. Bargain (University College Dublin)
16:30	-	17:15		Chunbing Xing (Beijing Normal University), Haifeng Nie (Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University)
				"When City Boy Falls in Love with Country Girl: Baby's Hukou, Hukou Reform, and Inter-hukou Marriage"
17:15	-	18:00		Björn Anders Gustafsson (Göteborg University), Ding Sai (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
				"The Growing Number of Non-Workers in Urban China - Causes and Distributional Consequences"
19:00				Dinner at Restaurant "Ocean Paradise", China Boat

Saturday, October 09:

09:00				Session E: Recent Empirical Findings on German Labor Markets
				Chair: Martin Guzi (IZA)
09:00	-	09:45		Ricarda Schmidl (IZA), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Steffen Künn (IZA)
				"Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effect of Active Labor Market Policies"
09:45	-	10:30		Ulf Rinne (IZA), Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA)
				"Human Capital vs. Signaling: The German Reunification as a Natural Experiment"
10:30	-	10:45		Coffee Break
10:45				Session F: Social Networks and Immigrants. A Comparison Between Europe and China
				Chair: Ulf Rinne (IZA)
10:45	-	11:30		Martin Guzi (IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University)
				"Social Networks and the Labour Market Outcomes of Rural to Urban Migrants in China"
11:30	-	12:15		Tomas Konecny (CERGE-EI)
				"Immigrant Links, Trade Creation, and Trade Diversion"
12:15	-	13:00		Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Christian Schluter (University of Southampton), Jackie Wahba (University of Southampton and IZA)
				"Migrants and Social Networks: Old Ideas, Lasting Myths and New Findings"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch
14:30				Tour of Bonn guided by IZA Researchers Ulf Rinne and Corrado Giulietti
19:00				Dinner at Restaurant "Zur Lindenwirtin Aennchen", Aennchenplatz 2, Bonn-Bad Godesberg