Employment Protection and Labor Markets

Friday, December 02:

13:00				Session: Determinants of EPL
13:30	-	14:30		Björn Brügemann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA*))
				"Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get"
				Discussant: Winfried Koeniger (University of St. Gallen and IZA)
14:30	-	15:30		Julien Prat (CREST and IZA*)), Winfried Koeniger (IZA)
				"Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection"
				Discussant: Pietro Garibaldi (Collegio Carlo Alberto and IZA)
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee/Tea Break
16:00				Session: EPL and Employment Dynamics
16:00	-	17:00		Pietro Garibaldi (Collegio Carlo Alberto and IZA*)), Tito Boeri (Bocconi University and IZA)
				"Two Tier Reforms of Employment Protection: A Honeymoon Effect?"
				Discussant: Marco Leonardi (University of Milan and IZA)
17:00	-	18:00		Julián Messina (Universidad de Alicante and IZA*)), Giovanna Vallanti (London School of Economics)
				"Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe"
				Discussant: Uwe Sunde (University of Munich and IZA)
19:00				Conference Dinner at Brewery Bönnsch

Saturday, December 03:

09:30				Session: EPL and Temporary Contracts
09:30	-	10:30		Marloes De Graaf-Zijl (UWV Netherlands Social Security Institute and IZA*))
				"The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to reduce Adjustment Costs: A Conjoint Analysis"
				Discussant: Thomas Dohmen (University of Bonn and IZA)
10:30	-	11:30		Lawrence M. Kahn (Cornell University and IZA*))
				"The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence"
				Discussant: Øivind Anti Nilsen (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA)
11:30	-	12:00		Coffee/Tea Break
12:00				Session: EPL and Optimal Contracts
12:00	-	13:00		Giulio Fella (Queen Mary, University of London*))
				"Optimal Severance Pay in a Matching Model"
				Discussant: Julien Prat (CREST and IZA)
13:00	-	14:15		Lunch
14:15				Session: Unemployment Insurance and EPL
14:15	-	15:15		Yann Algan (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA*)), Pierre Cahuc (University of Paris and IZA)
				"Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions"
				Discussant: Giuseppe Bertola (EDHEC Business School)
15:15	-	16:15		Michael Neugart (Darmstadt University of Technology*))
				"The Choice of Insurance in the Labor Market"
				Discussant: Julián Messina (Universidad de Alicante and IZA)
16:15	-	16:45		Coffee/Tea Break
16:45				Session: The Effect of EPL in Quasi-Natural Experiments
16:45	-	17:45		William Kerr (Harvard Business School*)), David Autor (MIT), Adriana Kugler (University of Houston and IZA)
				"Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States"
				Discussant: Björn Brügemann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA)
17:45	-	18:45		Voraprapa Nakavachara (University of Southern California*)), Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University and IZA)
				"Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg and IZA)