IZA Workshop: Youth Unemployment and Labor Market Integration

Monday, July 02:

08:45	-	09:00		Registration
09:00	-	09:15		Welcome Address Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and IZA)
				Session A: Scarring Effects of Youth Unemployment (I)
09:15	-	10:15		Bart Cockx (Ghent University and IZA), Matteo Picchio (Ghent University and IZA)
				"Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-term Unemployed School-Leavers"
				Discussant: Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))
10:15	-	11:15		Mariana Viollaz (CEDLAS-UNLP), Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS-CONICET and IZA), Andrés Ham (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
				"Scarring Effects of Youth Unemployment and Informality. Evidence from Argentina and Brazil"
				Discussant: Anton Nivorozhkin (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Matthias Umkehrer (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Achim Schmillen (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
				"The Impact of Early-career Unemployment on Long-term Labor Market Outcomes - A Distributional Micro-data Analysis of State Dependence"
				Discussant: Mariana Viollaz (CEDLAS-UNLP)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch and Poster Session
				Werner Eichhorst (IZA), Costanza Biavaschi (IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Ricarda Schmidl (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn), and others
				"Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training"
				Michael F. Maier (ZEW Mannheim), Jan Fries (ZEW Mannheim), Christian Göbel (University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency)
				"Do Employment Subsidies Reduce Early Apprenticeship Drop Out?"
				Katrine Holm Reiso (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)), Øivind Anti Nilsen (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and IZA)
				"Scarring Effects of Early Career Unemployment"
				Session B: Scarring Effects of Youth Unemployment (II)
14:00	-	15:00		Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)), Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and IZA), Erik Sørensen (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))
				"Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-term Effects of Graduating in a Recession"
				Discussant: Bart Cockx (Ghent University and IZA)
15:00	-	16:00		Carolina Fugazza (University of Turin)
				"Heterogeneity in the Unemployment Risk over the Life Cycle under Standard and Flexible Contracts"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Leicester and IZA)
16:00	-	16:15		Coffee Break
				Session C: Active Labor Market Policies for the Youth
16:15	-	17:15		Ricarda Schmidl (IZA), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA), Steffen Künn (University of Potsdam and IZA)
				"Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies"
				Discussant: Matthias Umkehrer (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
17:15	-	18:15		Anton Nivorozhkin (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
				"Give Them a Break! Did Activation of Young Welfare Recipients Overshoot in Germany? (A Regression Discontinuity Analysis)"
				Discussant: Carolina Fugazza (University of Turin)
19:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Elbe am Rhein", Rosental 105, Bonn

Tuesday, July 03:

				Session D: Minimum Wage, Taxes and Youth Unemployment (I)
09:00	-	10:00		William Wascher (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), David Neumark (University of California, Irvine and IZA), J.M. Ian Salas (University of California, Irvine)
				"Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: An Evaluation of New Evidence"
				Discussant: Per Skedinger (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm)
10:00	-	11:00		Steven Stillman (University of Otago and IZA), Dean Hyslop (Victoria University of Wellington)
				"The Impact of the 2008 Youth Minimum Wage Reform"
				Discussant: William Wascher (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Claudia Duarte (Bank of Portugal), Mário Centeno (Bank of Portugal and IZA), Álvaro A. Novo (Bank of Portugal and IZA)
				"The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Low-Wage and Young Workers: Employment and Match Evidence"
				Discussant: Christopher L. Smith (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
12:30	-	13:45		Lunch
				Session E: Minimum Wage, Taxes and Youth Unemployment (II)
13:45	-	14:45		Per Skedinger (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm)
				"Effects of Payroll Tax Cuts for Young Workers: Evidence from Swedish Retail"
				Discussant: Michael F. Maier (ZEW Mannheim)
				Session F: Skills, Training and Youth Unemployment
14:45	-	15:45		Christopher L. Smith (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
				"Polarization, Immigration, Education: What’s Behind the Dramatic Decline in Youth Employment?"
				Discussant: Steven Stillman (University of Otago and IZA)
15:45	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	17:00		Bibiana Taboada (Inter-American Development Bank), Pablo Ibarraran (Inter-American Development Bank and IZA), Laura Ripani (Inter-American Development Bank), Juan Miguel Villa (University of Manchester), Brigida Garcia
				"Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design"
				Discussant: Ricarda Schmidl (IZA)