European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics

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Ammersee, 14-18 September 1999. Hosted by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

   
   

Teilnehmer des 1. Sommersymposiums in Labour Economics "ESSLE 1999"

Final Programme

Tuesday 14 September:

09.30 - 11.30  

1. Morning Session I  
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

 

Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes 

 

James Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA)

   

12.30

Lunch

   

15.30 - 17.00

2. Parallel Session A 
Chair: Lars Ljungqvist

 

Wages, Experience and Seniority 

 

Christian Dustmann (Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, CEPR and IZA)

 

Costas Meghir (Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, CEPR and IZA) 

   

17.00 - 18.30 

Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

 

Jörgen Hansen (IZA, Bonn) 

 

Christian Belzil (Concordia University and IZA) 

 

 

15.30 - 17.00 

3. Parallel Session B  
Chair: Gerard Pfann

 

Does Shorter Schooling Hurt Student Performance and Earnings? 

 

Jörn-Steffen Pischke (MIT, CEPR and IZA) 

   

17.00 - 18.30 

Transitions from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration 

 

Espen Bratberg (University of Bergen) 

 

Øivind Anti Nilsen (University of Bergen and IZA) 

 

 

19.00

Dinner 

 

 

20.00 - 21.30 

4. Parallel Session C 
Chair: Pietro Garibaldi

 

The Evolution of Earnings Inequality in Italy and the Escalator Cause

 

Marco Manacorda (Centre for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley)

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

5. Parallel Session D  
Chair: Gil Epstein

 

Immigrant Labor and Workplace Safety

 

Thomas Bauer (IZA, Bonn and CEPR)

 

Andreas Million (University of Munich)

 

Ralph Rotte (University of Munich and IZA)

 

Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA,  Bonn University and CEPR)

   

Wednesday 15 September:

 9.30 - 11.30

6. Morning Session II
Chair: Juan J. Dolado

 

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World

 

David Wise (NBER and Harvard University)

 

 

12.30

Lunch

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

7. Parallel Session A
Chair: Michael Burda

 

How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

 

Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Modelling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed into Work

 

Jan Boone (CentER, Tilburg University and CPB)

 

Jan van Ours (CentER, Tilburg University, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

8. Parallel Session B
Chair: Barbara Petrongolo

 

On the Neutrality of Severance Payments in the Theory of Search Unemployment 

 

Pietro Garibaldi (International Monetary Fund and CEPR)

 

Gianluca Violante (University College London and CEPR)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

 

Pierre Cahuc (University of Paris I, CEPREMAP, CREST-INSEE, Institut Universitaire de France and IZA)

 

André Zylerberg (CNRS and University of Paris I)

 

 

19.00

Dinner

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

9. Parallel Session C
Chair: Marco Francesconi

 

General Training and Human-Capital Externalities

 

Alison Booth (University of Essex, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

10. Parallel Session D
Chair: Javier Ortega 

 

The Endogenous Determination of the Minimum Wage

 

Gil Epstein (Bar-Ilan University, CEPR and IZA)

 

Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University)

 

 

Thursday 16 September:

9.30 - 11.30

11. Morning Session III
Chair: Costas Meghir

 

The Payoff to Education

 

Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University and IZA)

 

 

12.30

Lunch

 

 

PM

TRIP TO CASTLE

 

 

19.00

Dinner

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

12. Parallel Session C
Chair: Pietro Garibaldi

 

Screening vs. Training in General Equilibrium Search Models

 

Etienne Wasmer (ECARE, University of Bruxelles, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

13. Parallel Session D
Chair: Christian Dustmann

 

Corporate Downsizing and Efficient Quitting

 

Gerard Pfann (Maastricht University, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

Friday 17 September:

09.30 - 11.30

14. Morning Session IV
Chair: Alison Booth

 

The Future of Personnel Economics

 

Edward Lazear (Stanford University)

 

 

12.30

Lunch

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

15. Parallel Session A 
Chair: Jennifer Hunt

 

Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

 

John Haisken-DeNew (DIW, Berlin and IZA)

 

Christoph M. Schmidt (University of Heidelberg, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

 

Magnus Lofstrom (IZA, Bonn)

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

16. Parallel Session B
Chair: Thomas Bauer

 

Group Interactions and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Bank

 

Andrea Ichino (European University Institute, Florence, IGIER, CEPR and IZA)

 

Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University and NBER)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Absenteeism and Employment Probation

 

Regina Riphahn (University of Munich, CEPR and IZA)

 

Anja Thalmaier (IZA, Bonn)

 

 

19.00

Dinner

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

17. Parallel Session C
Chair: Jörn-Steffen Pischke

 

Employment and the Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time

 

Ramon Marimon (European University Institute, Florence, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, NBER and CEPR)

 

Fabrizio Zilibotti (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and CEPR)

 

 

20.00 - 21.30

18. Parallel Session D
Chair: Jan van Ours

 

Re-employment Probabilities and Returns to Matching

 

Barbara Petrongolo (University Carlos III, Madrid, London School of Economics and CEPR)

 

Saturday 18 September:

09.30 - 11.30

Morning Session 
Chair: Zvi Eckstein

 

The Evolution of Labour Markets in Transitional Economies

 

Jan Svejnar (WDI, University of Michigan, CERGE-EI, Prague and CEPR)

12.30

Lunch

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

19. Parallel Session A
Chair: John Haisken-DeNew

 

Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

 

Jennifer Hunt (Yale University, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Estimating Wage Losses of Displaced Workers in Germany

 

Michael Burda (Humboldt-University, Berlin, CEPR and IZA)

 

Antje Mertens (Max Planck Institute and Humboldt-University, Berlin)

 

 

15.30 - 17.00

20. Parallel Session B
Chair: Oivind Anti Nilsen 

 

Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime

 

Steven Raphael (University of California)

 

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz, Vienna Institute for Economic Policy Research, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Demand Uncertainty, Mismatch and (Un)Employment - A Microeconomic Approach

 

Mohamed Jellal (CES, University of Rabat)

 

Jacques-François Thisse (CORE, University Catholique de Louvain, CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and CEPR)

 

Yves Zenou (CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, GAINS, University of Maine, CEPR and IZA)

 

 

Organizers:

 

Juan J. Dolado (University Carlos III, Madrid, CEPR and IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, Bonn University and CEPR)

 

 

Participation by invitation only - Teilnahme nur mit Einladung.