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Sessions A  

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Friday 19 September 2008, 10.30 - 12.30

A01 - Discrimination 1
Room: E0.03
Chair:  Erik Plug
 
Sexual orientation and earnings: A register data based approach to identify homosexuals
Ali Ahmed, Mats Hammarstedt
 
Racial differences in availability of fringe benefits as an explanation for the unexplained black-white wage gap for males in US
Kristjan-Olari Leping
 
The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay Between Job Categories: Theory and Test
Orn Bodvarsson, John Sessions
 
Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings
Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout
 
 
A02 - Education 1
Room: E0.14
Chair:  Giuseppe Rose
 
The Dynamics of Assortative Mating in Germany
Barbara Winter, Christoph Schmidt
 
The Effects of Technological Change on Life-Cycle Human Capital Investment
Xueda Song, John Jones
 
Dropping the books and working off the books
Roberta Zizza, Rita Cappariello
 
Overeducation and Instructional Quality. A Theoretical Model and Some Facts
Giuseppe Rose, Patrizia Ordine
 
 
A03 - Education returns 1
Room: E0.20
Chair:  Joop Hartog
 
Early labour market returns to college subject
Dario Pozzoli, Paolo Buonanno
 
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Margherita Fort, Giorgio Brunello, Guglielmo Weber
 
Credential Changes and Education Earnings Premia in Australia
Michael Coelli, Roger Wilkins
 
Individualistic Men and Collaborative Women - Gender Stereotypes and The Return to Sports Skills in the Regular Labor Market
Dan-Olof Rooth
 
Risk Attitude and Wage Growth: Replication and Reconstruction
Joop Hartog, Santi Budria, Ada Ferrer i- Carbonell
 
A04 - Employment protection legislation
Room: C203
Chair:  Bernard Boockmann
 
The Economic Costs of Court Decisions Concerning Dismissals in Japan: Identification by Judge Transfers
Hiroko Okudaira
 
Labour Market Outcomes and the Opening of the Black Box of EPL
Henri Fraisse, Francis Kramarz, Corinne Prost
 
The Short-Time Compensation Program: an Efficient Measure against Redundancies?
Oana Calavrezo, Richard Duhautois, Emmanuelle Walkowiak
 
Effects of Dismissal Protection on Individual Employment Stability in Germany
Bernard Boockmann, Daniel Gutknecht, Susanne Steffes
 
 
A05 - Hours
Room: E1.17
Chair: Pedro Raposo
 
Evaluating the Impact of Reducing Working Time on Capital Operating Time and Shiftwork
Fabrice Gilles
 
Explaining the evolution of hours worked and employment across OECD countries: an equilibrium search approach
Coralia Quintero Rojas, François Langot
 
How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Wages
Pedro Raposo, Jan Van Ours
 
 
A06 - Job search and matching 1
Room: E1.50
Chair:  Anne Gielen
 
Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential Or Non-Sequential Search?
Jos van Ommeren, Giovanni Russo
 
The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search
Jonas Lagerström, Stefan Eriksson
 
Occupational mismatch and moonlighting of Spanish physicians: Do couples matter?
Florentino Felgueroso, Juan Dolado
 

Repeated Job Quits: Stepping stones or Learning about Quality?

Anne Gielen
 
A07 - Labour market policy 1
Room: E0.07
Chair:  Nabanita Datta Gupta
 
Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Arjun Bedi, Robert Sparrow, Ana Iturriza
 
The effects of active labor market programs in Germany: An investigation using different definitions of non-treatment
Gesine Stephan
 
Evaluating Employment Effects of Wage Subsidies for the Disabled – the Danish Flexjobs Scheme
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Mona Larsen
 
A08 - Migration 1
Room: E0.09
Chair: Akira Shimada
 
What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
Jan Sauermann, Andries De Grip, Didier Fouarge
 
Network Effects on Domestic Migration Flows Across Germany: A Spatial Autoregressive Perspective with Spatially Structured Origin and Destination Effects and Heteroskedastic Innovations
Markus Zimmer
 
International Migration, Internal Migration, and Substitute and Complement Industries
Akira Shimada
A09 - Older workers
Room: C.210
Chair: Eva Moreno Galbis
Do older workers obstruct IT-enabled productivity?
Jenny Meyer, Irene Bertschek
IT training and employability of older workers
Katrin Schleife
Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?
Eva Moreno Galbis, François Langot
A10 - Skills
Room: E0.10
Chair:  Bas ter Weel
 
Institutional Characteristics of School Systems and the Formation of Non-Cognitive Skills – What Role for Accountability Policies?
Elke Lüdemann
 
Parents’ Basic Skills and Children Cognitive Outcomes
Elena Meschi, Augustin De Coulon, Anna Vignoles
 
Net Cost of Apprenticeship Training? New Evidence on the Basis of Wage Markups after Training in Germany
Kathrin Goeggel, Thomas Zwick
 
The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
Bas Ter Weel, Lex  Borghans, Huub Meijers
 
A11 - Taxation
Room: E0.04
Chair: Bertil Holmlund
 
Optimal Policy of Minimum Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit
Miki Malul, Israel Luski
 
Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and involuntary unemployment
Bruno Van der Linden, Etiënne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier
 
Welfare Effects of Distortionary Fringe Benefits Taxation: The Case of Employer-Provided Cars
Eva Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos Van Ommeren
 
Effect of Firing Taxes and Hiring Subsidies on Job Creation, Job Destruction and Unemployment
Sarah Le Duigou, François Langot
 
Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Bertil Holmlund, Martin Söderström
 
A12 - Training 1
Room: E1.51
Chair: Reyes Aterido
 
Does Product Market Competition Decrease Employers’ Training Investments? Evidence from German Establishment Panel Data.
Katja Goerlitz, Joel Stiebale
 
Firm-sponsored Training and Poaching Externalities in Regional Labor Markets
Samuel Muehlemann
 
Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Jens Mohrenweiser, Thomas Zwick
 
The Spillover Effect of Training Within the Firm
Audrey Dumas
 
Labor Market Regulations and the Investment in Job Training in Developing Countries
Reyes Aterido, Rita K. Almeida
A13 - Wage inequality 1
Room: E0.15
Chair: Paolo Naticchioni
 
Wage Inequality in Spain 1980-2000
Hidalgo Manuel
 
Increasing Wage Inequality:a comparative analysis between Italy, UK and U.S.
Cinzia Rienzo
 
The Stable Wage Distribution in Japan, 1982-2002: A Counter Example for SBTC?
Daiji Kawaguchi, Yuko Mori
 
A Reassessment of Wage Inequality in Italy
Paolo Naticchioni, Andrea Ricci

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The EALE 2008 Conference is financially sponsored by:

 




SCHOLAR
 



 



Faculty of Economics and Business
 





 



 



 




Tinbergen Institute
 


 
 

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