IZA Workshop on Central and Eastern European Labor Markets

Organizer:	Harmut Lehman (University of Bologna and IZA Bonn)
Place:	Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Date:	February 27-28, 2004

Friday, February 27
9.15 - 9.30	Opening remarks by Marek Góra and Hartmut Lehmann
9.30 - 10.00	Marek Góra and Anna Ruzik, "Institutional factors determining labour supply of workers over 50 in Poland"
10.00 - 10.30	Marek Góra and Mateusz Walewski, "Tax wedge and employment of low productivity workers in Poland"
10.30 - 11.00	Discussion about Polish Labor Force Statistics
11.00 - 11.15	Hartmut Lehmann on the general concept of the DFG research group project "Restructuring and Labour Market Adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe"
11.15 - 11.45	Thomas Bauer and Axel Heitmueller on sub-project "Migration intentions and migration by Polish workers
11.45 - 12.15	Jonathan Wadsworth and Hartmut Lehmann on sub-project "Displaced Workers in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
12.15 - 12.45	Jochen Kluve and Hartmut Lehmann on sub-project "Evaluation of ALMP in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
12.45 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 18.00	Discussion of three modules of supplement to the PLFS: migration module; displacement module; ALMP module.
Saturday, February 28
9.30 - 10.00	Jonathan Wadsworth presents "The State of Working Britain"
10.00 - 10.15	Hartmut Lehmann on the book project and the structure of "The State of Working Poland"
10.15 - 11.00	Marek Góra and Michal Rutkowski on pension reform in Poland
11.00 - 12.30	General discussion of the book project "The State of Working Poland"
12.30	Lunch and end of workshop