Report on the 1st IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, 1998

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Program

Monday, 07 September 1998

14:00

Welcome by Klaus F. Zimmermann, IZA and Bonn University

14:30

Session S1
Ludgar Lindlar (University of Groningen):
Macroeconomic causes for the rise of unemployment in Germany since unification

Lothar Funk (University of Birmingham):
Curing persistent unemployment in Germany: A double track decision approach

Michael Reutter (University of Munich):
Wage bargaining, taxation and unemployment: A macroeconomic analysis of the West German labor market

16:00

Coffee/Tea break

16:30

Session S2
Michaela Kreyenfeld (University of Bochum):
Explaining wage differences between foreigners and West Germans

Rob Euwals (University of Mannheim):
Desired and actual labor supply of unmarried men and women in the Netherlands

Astrid Kunze (University College, London):
How we can explain the gender wage gap among young skilled workers in Germany?

Break

19:00

Dinner

20:00

Get together

Tuesday, 08 September 1998

08:30

Lecture K1
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data I

10:00

Coffee/Tea break

10:30

Lecture K2
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data II

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Session S3
Lena Edlund (Stockholm School of Economics):
Custodial rights and the rise in out-of-wedlock fertility

Alfredo Ariza Alfaro (Universidad Pais Vasco):
Timing of birth and fertility trends in Spain (1992-1995)

Elena Quercioli (University of Essex):
Firm specific training in a search equilibrium: theory and evidence

16:00

Coffee/Tea break

16:30

Session S4
Ives Saks (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):
Inflows and outflows in the Belgian sickness insurance

Anja Thalmaier (IZA, Bonn):
Absenteeism and employment probation

Break

19:00

Dinner

20:00

Get together

Wednesday, 09 September 1998

08:30

Lecture K3
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data III

10:00

Coffee/Tea break

10:30

Lecture K4
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data IV

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Lecture K5
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data V

16:00

Coffee/Tea break

16:30

Lecture K6
Francis Kramarz (CREST/INSEE, Paris):
Analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data VI

Break

19:00

Dinner

20:00

Social program

Thursday, 10 September 1998

08:30

Lecture W1
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs I

10:00

Coffee/Tea break

10:30

Lecture W2
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs II

12:15

Lunch

13:00

Excursion to the Castle "Linderhof"

Friday, 11 September 1998

08:30

Lecture W3
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs III

10:00

Coffee/Tea break

10:30

Lecture W4
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs IV

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Session S5
Yvonne Kollmeier (University of Cologne):
Do welfare effects of different social standards justify their harmonization?

Guzel Bilialova (University of Barcelona):
On the policital economy of declining industries

Jan Fidrmuc (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands):
Political support for reforms: Economics of voting in transition countries

16:00

Coffee/Tea break

16:30

Session S6
Patrick A. Puhani (ZEW, Mannheim):
Vorsprung durch Training? A microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labor market programs in Poland

Martin Eichler (University of Mannheim):
An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol):
Child labor in Pakistan and Ghana

Break

19:00

Dinner

20:00

Social program

Saturday, 12 September 1998

08:30

Lecture W5
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs V

10:00

Coffee/Tea break

10:30

Lecture W6
Frank Windmeijer (Institute of Fiscal Studies, London):
Evaluation of job training programs VI

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Session S7
Laszlo Goerke (University of Konstanz):
The impact of earnings-related unemployment benefits in trade union models

Pia Weiss (University of Cologne):
Terms of trade shocks, wages and unemployment

Ana Christina L. Marques (Universidada Nova de Lisboa):
Taxes and women in the labor force in a southern european country: The case of Portugal

16:00

Coffee/Tea break

16:30

Session S8
Nicole Gürtzgen (University of Rostock):
Wage-employment bargaining in an unionized oligopoly and international market integration

Jochen Mayer (University of Munich and IZA):
Varying coefficient models for count data with an application to job mobility

Break

19:00

Conference dinner

Farewell drinks

Sunday, 13 September 1998

11:00

Departure after breakfast