IZA Workshop: Unemployment Insurance in the Recession

Monday, June 27:

08:45	-	09:00		Welcome Address Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique and IZA)
				Session A: Unemployment Insurance Extensions in Recessions (I)
09:00	-	10:00		David Grubb (OECD)
				"Assessing the Impact of Recent Unemployment Insurance Extensions in the United States"
				Discussant: Henry S Farber (Princeton University)
10:00	-	11:00		Pascal Michaillat (London School of Economics), Camille Landais (Stanford University), Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and IZA)
				"Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle"
				Discussant: David M. Gray (University of Ottawa)
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Session B: Unemployment Insurance Extensions in Recessions (II)
11:30	-	12:30		Stanislav Rabinovich (University of Pennsylvania), Kurt Mitman (University of Pennsylvania)
				"Pro-cyclical Unemployment Benefits? Optimal Policy in an Equilibrium Business Cycle Model"
				Discussant: Björn Brügemann (Yale University)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	15:00		Stefan Bender (Institute for Employment Research), Johannes F. Schmieder (Boston University and IZA), Till von Wachter (Columbia University and IZA)
				"The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years"
				Discussant: Robert G. Valletta (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:30		Robert G. Valletta (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Henry S. Farber (Princeton University and IZA)
				"Extended Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Duration in The Great Recession: The U.S. Experience"
				Discussant: Andreas Peichl (IZA)
16:30	-	17:30		Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich), Lukas Inderbitzin (University of St. Gallen), Stefan Staubli (University of St. Gallen)
				"Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance and the Early-Retirement Decision"
				Discussant: Christoph Basten (European University Institute)
19:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Le Bistrot/Ratatouille", Kaiser Karl Hotel, Vorgebirgsstrasse 50, 53119 Bonn

Tuesday, June 28:

				Session C: Short Time Work Compensation
09:00	-	10:00		Björn Brügemann (Yale University), Helge Braun (University of Cologne), Klaudia Michalek (University of Cologne)
				"Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation"
				Discussant: Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
10:00	-	11:00		Tito Boeri (Bocconi University), Herbert Brücker (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA)
				"Short-time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession"
				Discussant: David Grubb (OECD)
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Alexander Hijzen (OECD), Danielle Venn (OECD, Paris)
				"The Role of Short-time Work Schemes during the 2008-09 Recession"
				Discussant: Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session D: Macroeconomic Impact of Social Insurance
14:00	-	15:00		Andreas Peichl (IZA), Matthias Dolls (University of Cologne and IZA), Clemens Fuest (University of Oxford and IZA)
				"Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe"
				Discussant: Stanislav Rabinovich (University of Pennsylvania)
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:30		Sebastian Siegloch (IZA), Olivier Bargain (University College Dublin and IZA), Herwig Immervoll (OECD and IZA), Andreas Peichl (IZA)
				"Distributional Consequences of Labor-demand Shocks: The 2008-09 Recession in Germany"
				Discussant: Alexander Hijzen (OECD)
16:30	-	17:30		Christoph Basten (European University Institute), Andreas Fagereng (European University Institute and Statistics Norway), Kjetil Telle (Statistics Norway)
				"Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)