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1st OECD/IZA World of Labor Seminar: Minimum Wages – Impacts and Institutional Processes

Organizers: Alessio J. G. Brown (IZA), Stefano Scarpetta (OECD and IZA)
Location:2 rue André Pascal, 75116 Paris
Date:November 17, 2014 - November 17, 2014

Event Manager:

Dominik Spitza (IZA)



From left: David Neumark, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Stefano Scarpetta, Francois Bourguignon and Richard Dickens





Program

Monday, November 17:

14:30 - 14:45   Introduction
 
   

"The OECD/IZA World of Labor Seminar: Evidence-based policy making"

Stefano Scarpetta (Director for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, OECD and IZA)

Klaus F. Zimmermann (Director of IZA, Editor-in-Chief of IZA WoL, Professor of Bonn University)

 
14:45 - 16:00   Panel on Minimum Wages - Impacts and Institutional Processes
 
   

Francois Bourguignon (Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Président du Groupe d'Experts

sur le Salaire Minimum de Croissance)

Richard Dickens (Professor of Economics at Sussex University and UK Low Pay Commissioner and IZA)

David Neumark (Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine and IZA)

Klaus F. Zimmermann (Director of IZA, Editor-in-Chief of IZA WoL, Professor of Bonn University)

Moderator: Stefano Scarpetta (Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD and IZA)

 
 
 
    Topic 1: "Minimum Wages - Blessing or Curse? The Labor Market Impact"

Introduction by David Neumark: "Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Global Evidence"

Panel Discussion

Open Floor

 
 
    Topic 2: "Setting, Adjusting the Minimum Wage and Interactions with other Policies"

Introduction by Francois Bourguignon: "The Economic Challenges of Setting and Adjusting the Minimum Wage"

Richard Dickens "Setting the Minimum Wage: The Social Partnership Model in the UK"

Panel Discussion

Open Floor

 




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