IZA Workshop on Inequality: Causes and Consequences

Friday, March 20:

08:00	-	08:30		Registration
08:30	-	08:45		Welcome Address
				Session A: Estimation and Measurement of Intergenerational Associations
08:45	-	09:45		Anders Björklund (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA)
				"Intergenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Effects, Sibling Correlations, and Equality of Opportunity: A Comparison of Four Approaches"
09:45	-	10:45		Bhashkar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
				"Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the US: Overcoming the Limitations of Tax Data"
10:45	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Session B: Determinants of Lifetime and Consumption Inequality
11:00	-	12:00		Luca Flabbi (Inter-American Development Bank and IZA), James Mabli (Mathematica Policy Research), Mauricio Salazar (Inter-American Development Bank)
				"Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market"
12:00	-	13:00		Johannes Ludwig (Ruhr University Bochum)
				"Changing Income Shocks or Changed Insurance - What Determines Consumption Inequality?"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	15:00		Coffee and Poster Session: Parental Selection, Ability, Gender Composition and Educational Outcomes
				Arnaud Chevalier (IZA), Olivier Marie (Maastricht University and IZA)
				"Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Educational Outcome of the ‘Children of the Wall’"
				Ingo E. Isphording (IZA), Benjamin Elsner (IZA)
				"Big Fishes in Small Ponds: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment"
				Ulf Zölitz (IZA)
				"Surrounded by Women: How Changes in the Gender Composition Affect Student Performance and Careers in Academia"
				Session C: Inequality and Occupational Structure
15:00	-	16:00		Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia, Vancouver and IZA), Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia, Vancouver and IZA)
				"Inequality and Changes in Task Prices: Within and Between Occupation Effects"
16:00	-	17:00		Elizabeth Handwerker (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), James R. Spletzer (U.S. Census Bureau and IZA)
				"Increased Concentration of Occupations, Outsourcing, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States"
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, March 21:

				Session D: Intergenerational Mobility
09:00	-	10:00		Peter T. Gottschalk (Boston College and IZA), Martha Stinson (U.S. Census Bureau)
				"Is there an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility"
10:00	-	11:00		Emiko Usui (Hitotsubashi University and IZA), Tsunao Okumura (Yokohama National University)
				"Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Session E: Income, Health and Wage Inequality
11:30	-	12:30		Stephen Machin (University College London and IZA)
				"Rising Wage Inequality, Real Wage Stagnation and Revisiting the Role of Unions"
12:30	-	13:45		Lunch
13:45	-	14:45		Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and IZA), Vito Peragine (University of Bari), Laura Serlenga (University of Bari and IZA)
				"Income Inequality and Opportunity Inequality in Europe: Recent Trends and Explaining Factors"
14:45	-	15:45		Roger Wilkins (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research), Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University and IZA), Dean Lillard (Ohio State University), Markus Hahn (University of Melbourne)
				"Does Income Inequality in Early Childhood Predict Self-Reported Health In Adulthood? A Cross-National Comparison of the United States and Great Britain"
15:45	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	17:00		Elena Crivellaro (OECD)
				"College Wage Premium over Time: Trends in Europe in the last 15 Years"
17:00	-	18:00		Carl Lin (Beijing Normal University and IZA), Myeong-Su Yun (Tulane University and IZA)
				"Minimum Wages and Income Inequality in Urban China"
19:30				Dinner

Paul Bingley (SFI - Danish National Centre for Social Research)
Anders Björklund (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA)
Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and IZA)
Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and IZA)
Arnaud Chevalier (IZA)
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Melbourne and IZA)
Tommaso Colussi (IZA)
Elena Crivellaro (OECD)
Benjamin Elsner (IZA)
Luca Flabbi (Inter-American Development Bank and IZA)
Miriam Gensowski (University of Copenhagen and IZA)
Peter T. Gottschalk (Boston College and IZA)
Elizabeth Handwerker (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Ingo E. Isphording (IZA)
Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia, Vancouver and IZA)
Carl Lin (Beijing Normal University and IZA)
Xingfei Liu (IZA)
Johannes Ludwig (Ruhr University Bochum)
Stephen Machin (University College London and IZA)
Bhashkar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Tsunao Okumura (Yokohama National University)
Nico Pestel (IZA)
Solomon Polachek (Binghamton University, New York and IZA)
Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Nottingham and IZA)
Emiko Usui (Hitotsubashi University and IZA)
Roger Wilkins (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
Ulf Zölitz (IZA)