Program - 5th Summer School

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Monday, April 15

- 3.00 pm

Arrival and Welcome

   

03.00 pm

Lecture I:

 

Joshua Angrist (MIT and IZA)

   

04.30 pm

Coffee/Tea break

   

05.00 pm

Lecture I:

 

Joshua Angrist (MIT and IZA)

   
 

Break

   

07.00 pm

Dinner

   

08.00 pm

Get together

   

Tuesday, April 16

08.30 am

Lecture I:

 

Joshua Angrist (MIT and IZA)

   

10.00 am

Coffee/Tea break

   

10.30 am

Lecture I:

 

Joshua Angrist (MIT and IZA)

   

12.30 am

Lunch

   

02.30 pm

Lecture I: 

 

Joshua Angrist (MIT and IZA)

04.00 pm

Coffee/Tea break

 

 

04.30 pm

Session 1

 

Beatrice Schindler-Rangvid (Aarhus School of Business, Denmark)
"Evaluating Private School Quality in Denmark"
Chair:
Christoph Michael Meng (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Discussants:
Iida Häkkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Analia Schlosser (The Hebrew University, Israel)

 

 

05.30 pm

Session 2

 

Eva Rückert (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
"Decomposing Estonian Wages by Gender: A Quantile Regression Approach of the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Methodology"
Chair:
Antonio Filippin (European University Institute, Italy)
Discussants:
Céline Bignebat (Université Paris I, France)
Osnat Israeli (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

   
 

Break

 

 

07.00 pm

Dinner

   

08.00 pm

Get together

 

 

   

Wednesday, April 17

09.00 am

Session 3:

 

Marco Caliendo (J.W. Goethe-University, Germany)
"Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies - A Macroeconometric Approach using Dynamic Panel Data"
Chair:
Camille Logeay (DIW, Germany)
Discussants:
Lena Lindahl (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Anatoli Vassiliev (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

   

10.00 am

Coffee/Tea break

   

10.30 am

Poster Session 1:

 

Thomas Andrèn (Göteborg University, Sweden)
"A Structural Model of Childcare, Welfare, and Labor Supply: the Case of Single Mothers in Sweden"

Orietta Dessy (CREST, France)
"Nominal Wage Rigidity in the European Countries: Evidence from the Europanel"

Osnat Israeli (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
"The Gender Wage Gap in Israel, 1982-1997"

Francis Kramarz, Marie-Laure Michaud (Université Paris I, France)
"The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs: Concave but Not Fixed"

Stefan Zagelmeyer (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
"Whodunit? The (not quite so) Mysterious Passing Away of Multi-employer Collective Bargaining in Britain"

Analia Schlosser (The Hebrew University, Israel)
"The Effect of Targeted Individualized Instruction to Disadvantaged Students on Schooling Achievements"

   

12.15 am

Lunch

   

02.30 pm

Lecture II: 

 

Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University)

   

04.00 pm

Coffee/Tea break

   

04.30 pm

Poster Session 2:

 

Michèle Belot (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
"Why Is the Employment Protection Stricter in Europe than in the US?"

Kræn Blume
(Aarhus School of Business, Denmark)
"Immigrants and Income Mobility in Denmark: Is Self-employment Just Means to an End?"

Maria Gutiérrez-Domenèch (LSE and CEP, UK)
"Job Penalty after Motherhood: a Spanish Case in a European Context"

Camille Logeay, Rainer Schulz (DIW, Germany)
"A Time Varying Natural Rate of Unemployment for Germany"

Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus (CREST, France)
"Unemployment Insurance and Job Reallocation"

Eleonora Patacchini (University of Southampton, UK)
"Unobservable Factors and Panel Data Sets: An Investigation in the Labor Market"

Silke Woltermann (University of Göttingen, Germany)
"Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions"

   
 

Break

   

07.00 pm

Dinner

   

08.00 pm

Get together

   

Thursday, April 18

08.30 am

Lecture II:

 

Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University)

   

10.00 am

Coffee/Tea break

   

10.30 am

Lecture II:

 

Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University)

   

12.00 am

Lunch

   

01.00 pm

Excursion to Munich

   
   

Friday, April 19

8.30 am

Lecture II:

 

Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University)

   

10.00 am

Coffee/Tea break

   

10.30 am

Lecture II:

 

Gerard Pfann (IZA and Maastricht University)

   

12.30 am

Lunch

   

02.30 pm

Poster Session 3

 

Gabriel J. Felbermayr (European University Institute, Italy)
"Immigration Policy in a Small Trade Distorted Economy: Insurance and Efficiency"

Michael Kvasnicka, Axel Werwatz (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
"An Analysis of the Wage Penalty Associated with Temporary Help Service Employment in Germany"

Christoph Michael Meng (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
"Sources of Human Capital: A European Analysis"

Corinna Schmidtke, Uschi Backes-Gellner (University of Cologne, Germany)
"Employer-Signalling and Recruitment Success"

Ahmed Tritah (Université des Sciences Sociales, France)
"Social Mobility and Educational Financing"

Anatoli Vassiliev (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Performance Measurement and Determinants of Inefficiency of Regional Employment Offices: A Non-parametric Frontier Analysis for Switzerland"

   

04.00 pm

Coffee/Tea break

   

04.30 pm

Session 4:

 

Chiara Criscuolo, Christian Dustmann (University College London, UK)
"Employer Size, Mobility and Wage Differentials"
Chair:
Stefan Zagelmeyer (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Discussants:
Marie-Laure Michaud (Université Paris I, France)
Satu Nurmi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

   

05.30 pm

Session 5:

 

Olivier Charlot (Université de la Méditerranée, France)
"Education, Employment and Non-employment Rates by Age in a Matching Model of Unemployment"
Chair:
Julius Spatz (Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany)
Discussants:
Michèle Belot (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Franck Malherbet (CREST, France)

   

07.00 pm

Dinner

   

08.00 pm

Get together


Saturday, April 20

9.00 am

Session 6:

 

Hélène Couprie (Universitè de la Méditerranée, France)
"Household Negotiation and Labor Supply: Evidence from the BHPS"
Chair:
Ahmed Tritah (GREMAQ-Toulouse, France)
Discussants:
Thomas Andrén (Göteborg University, Sweden)
Maria Gutiérrez-Domenèch (LSE and CEP, UK)

   

10.00 am

Coffee/Tea break

   

10.30 am

Poster Session 4:

 

Céline Bignebat (Université Paris I, France)
"Company towns and labour market transition in Russia"

Antonio Filippin
(European University Institute, Italy)
"Discrimination and Workers' Expectations"

Iida Häkkinen, Roope Uusitalo (University of Helsinki, Sweden)
"The Effect of Student Aid Reform on Graduation Times. A Duration Analysis"

Lena Lindahl (Stockholm University, Sweden)
"Do birth order and family size matter for intergenerational income mobility? A study based on Swedish micro data"

Satu Nurmi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
"Plant Size, Age and Employment Growth in Finnish Manufacturing"

Carsten Ochsen (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
"Capital-Skill Complementarity, Biased Technical Change and (Un)Employment"

Julius Spatz (Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany)
"The Distribution Effect of Deregulation and Privatization in a Dual Economy"

   

12.30 am

Lunch

   

3.00 pm

Session 7

 

Tuomas Pekkarinen (European University Institute, Italy)
"Gender Differences in Promotion Along a Complexity Ladder"
Chair:
Gabriel J. Felbermayr (European University Institute, Italy)
Discussants:
Orietta Dessy (CREST, France)
Corinna Schmidtke (University of Cologne, Germany)

   

04.00 pm

Coffee/Tea break

   

04.30 pm

Session 8

 

Marloes Zijl (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Stepping Stones for the Unemployed?"
Chair:
Carsten Ochsen (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Discussants:
Michael Kvasnicka (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany), Eleonora Patacchini (University of Southhampton, UK)

   

05.30 pm

Session 9

 

Susanne Maidorn (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
"Transitions in the German Labour Market"
Chair:
Thomas Bauer (IZA, Germany)
Discussants:
Kræn Blume (Aarhus School of Business, Denmark)
Silke Woltermann (University of Göttingen, Germany)

 

Break

07.00 pm

Dinner

   

08.00 pm

Get together

   

Sunday, April 21


Departure after Breakfast