IZA Workshop: Unemployment Insurance and Flexicurity

Friday, December 11:

09:00	-	09:15		Welcome Address by Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique and IZA)
09:15				Session 1: Unemployment Insurance Design
09:15	-	10:15		Torben M. Andersen (University of Aarhus), Michael Svarer (Aarhus University and IZA)
				"Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance"
				Discussant: Bruno Van der Linden (Catholic University of Louvain)
10:15	-	11:15		Tomer Blumkin (Ben Gurion University), Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University and IZA)
				"Rising UI Benefits over Time"
				Discussant: Bruno Decreuse (University of Aix-Marseille II)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Susanne Ek Spector (Uppsala University), Bertil Holmlund (Uppsala University and IZA)
				"Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance"
				Discussant: Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch and Poster Session
				Govert Bijwaard (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute), Justus Veenman (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
				"Unequal Risks on the Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands"
				Florent Fremigacci (CREST), Antoine Terracol (University of Paris 1)
				"Subsidized Temporary Jobs: Lock-in and Stepping Stone Effects"
				Myrthe Frenk (Maastricht University), Gerard Pfann
				"EPL and Labor Market Dynamics in the Netherlands"
14:00				Session 2: Unemployment Insurance and Post-Unemployment Outcomes
14:00	-	15:00		Arne Uhlendorff (University of Mannheim), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
				"Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach"
				Discussant: Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University)
15:00	-	16:00		Mario Centeno (Bank of Portugal), Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal and IZA)
				"Unemployment Insurance and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Reemployment Wages"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
16:01				Session 3: Unemployment Insurance and the Allocation of Labor
16:30	-	17:30		Bruno Decreuse (University of Aix-Marseille II), Pierre Granier (Université de la Méditerranée)
				"Labor Market Institutions and the Divide of Schooling Investment between General and Specialized Skills"
				Discussant: Torben M. Andersen (University of Aarhus)
17:30	-	18:30		Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania), Manolis Galenianos (Pennsylvania State University), Gabor Virag (University of Rochester)
				"Market Power and Efficiency in a Search Model"
				Discussant: Winfried Koeniger (Queen Mary, University of London)
19:30				Dinner

Saturday, December 12:

09:00				Session 4: Unemployment Insurance and Flexicurity
09:00	-	10:00		Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Paul Bingley (SFI), Niels Westergaard-Nielsen (University of Aarhus)
				"Flexicurity and Wage Dynamics over the Life-Cycle"
				Discussant: Tomer Blumkin (Ben Gurion University)
10:00	-	11:00		Stephan Dlugosz (ZEW Mannheim), Gesine Stephan (IAB, Nürnberg and IZA), Ralf A. Wilke (Nottingham School of Economics)
				"Fixing the Leak: Unemployment Incidence before and after the 2006 Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany"
				Discussant: Arne Uhlendorff (University of Mannheim)
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Tito Boeri (Bocconi University), J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz (Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA)), Vincenzo Galasso (Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF))
				"Political Economy of Flexicurity"
				Discussant: Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00				Session 5: Unemployment Insurance and Individual Accounts
14:00	-	15:00		Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University), Gonzalo Reyes Hartley (Research Department, Superintendence of Pension Funds), Milan Vodopivec (World Bank and IZA)
				"Incentive Effects of UI Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile"
				Discussant: Tito Boeri (Bocconi University)
15:00	-	16:00		Winfried Koeniger (Queen Mary, University of London), Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin and CEPR)
				"Public and Private Insurance: Theory and Cross-Country Facts"
				Discussant: Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
16:30				Session 6: Structural Analysis of Unemployment Insurance
16:30	-	17:30		Bruno Van der Linden (Catholic University of Louvain), Bart Cockx (Ghent University and IZA), Muriel Dejemeppe (Université Catholique de Louvain), Andrey Launov (Université of Mainz and IZA)
				"Monitoring and Sanctions in a Non-Stationary Structural Job Search Model"
				Discussant: Peter Haan (DIW Berlin)
17:30	-	18:30		Peter Haan (DIW Berlin), Victoria Prowse (University of Oxford and IZA)
				"The Design of Unemployment Transfers - Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model"
				Discussant: Mario Centeno (Bank of Portugal)