IZA/CERESS Workshop Empirical Personnel Economics: Investigating the Organization of Labor within Firms

Friday, November 19:

09:00	-	09:10		Welcome
09:10	-	10:10		Christian Belzil (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and IZA*)), Michael Bognanno (Temple University and IZA)
				"The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives"
10:10	-	11:10		Tim Barmby (University of Aberdeen*)), Barbara Eberth (University of Aberdeen)
				"Evolution of Earnings in an Internal Labor Market: A Counterfactual Analysis"
				Discussant: Ben Kriechel (Economix Research & Consulting and IZA)
11:10	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School and IZA*)), Paul Bingley (University of Aarhus)
				"Tenure, Career Making and Pay over the Life Cycle"
				Discussant: Barbara Eberth (University of Aberdeen)
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	14:30		Tor Eriksson (Aarhus School of Business*)), Marie-Claire Villeval (University of Lyon 2 and IZA)
				"Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay: An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting"
				Discussant: Tom McKenzie (City St George's, University of London)
14:30	-	15:30		Simon Gächter (University of Nottingham and IZA*)), Esther Kessler (University of St. Gallen), Manfred Königstein (University of Erfurt and IZA)
				"Performance Incentives and the Dynamics of Voluntary Cooperation"
				Discussant: Kathrin Manthei (RFH Koeln)
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	17:30		Poster Session
17:30	-	18:30		Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA*)), Michael Kosfeld (University of Zurich)
				"Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control"

Saturday, November 20:

09:15	-	10:15		Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University and IZA*)), Casey Ichniowski (Columbia University)
				"Connective Capital: Building Problem-Solving Networks Within Firms"
				Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod (Princeton University)
10:15	-	11:15		Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne and IZA*))
				"On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes"
				Discussant: Wendelin Schnedler (University of Paderborn and IZA)
11:15	-	11:45		Coffee Break
11:45	-	12:45		Steffen Huck (University College London*)), Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway), Brian Wallace (Royal Holloway)
				"Deferred compensation and gift exchange: An investigation into multi-period labour markets"
				Discussant: Alwine Mohnen (Munich University of Technology and IZA)
12:45	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	15:00		Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University and IZA*)), Ben Kriechel (University of Maastricht and IZA)
				"Workplace Reorganization Induced Earnings Inequality"
				Discussant: Uwe Sunde (University of Munich and IZA)
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:30		Bernd Irlenbusch (University of Cologne and IZA*)), Christine Harbring (Towers Perrin)
				"Sabotage and the Endogenous Design of Tournaments"
				Discussant: David B. Huffman (University of Pittsburgh and IZA)
16:30	-	17:30		Joop Hartog (University of Amsterdam and IZA*))
				"Schools, Skills and Risk"
				Discussant: René Fahr (University of Paderborn and IZA)
20:00				Conference Dinner