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Contributed Sessions G

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Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30

G01: Discrimination and Competition
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Chair: Yona Rubinstein
 
The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market
Benoit Schmutz, Pierre-Philippe Combesy, Bruno Decreuse, Alain Trannoy
 
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
 
Racial Discrimination and Competition
Yona Rubinstein, Ross Levine, Alex Levkov
 
 
G02: Tracking
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Drayton Jevons LT
Chair: Uta Schoenberg
 
The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: a Natural Experiment
Nina Guyon, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally
 
Migration Background and School Tracking: Is there a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?
Elke Luedemann, Guido Schwerdt
 
The Long-Term Effects of Higher Track Choice Attendance
Christian Dustmann, Patrick Puhani, Uta Schoenberg
 
 
G03: Modelling Job Search
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Christopher Ingold Chemistry LT
Chair: Bertil Holmlund
 
Estimating Labor Market Rigidities with Heterogeneous Firms
Nicolas Roys
 
Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment with Unobservable Heterogeneity of Workers
Arnaud Cheron, Benedicte Rouland
 
Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Bertil Holmlund, Susanne Ek
 
 
G04: Gender Gaps
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Anatomy J Z Young LT
Chair: Karen Mumford
 
Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
Barbara Petrongolo, Claudia Olivetti
 
Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, 1994-2007
Mathias Sinning, Sonja Kassenboehmer
 
Gender Gaps accross the Earnings Distribution for Full-Time Employees in Britain: Allowing for Sample Selection
Karen Mumford, Yekaterina Chzhen
 
 
G05: Wages and Fairness
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Chadwick LT
Chair: Thomas Dohmen
 
Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Frédéric Schneider, Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Hermann
 
Individual vs. Relative Performance Pay with Envious Workers and Non-verifiable Performance
Jenny Kragl
 
Pay Growth, Fairness and Job satisfaction: Implications for Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity
Jennifer Smith
 
 
G06: Discrimination and Minorities
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Cruciform LT1
Chair: Alison Booth
 
Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement
Carmit Segal, Amalia Miller
 
Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
David Neumark
 
Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment
Alison Booth, Andrew Leigh, Elena Varganova
 
 
G07: Welfare Dynamics and Intergenerational Persistence
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.02
Chair: Peter Gottschalk
 
Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency: The Effects of Length of Exposure
Oscar Mitnik
 
State Dependence and Heterogeneity: Measuring the Dynamic Effects of Welfare Time Limits
Marc Chan
 
 
G08: Universities
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.03
Chair: Christopher Ryan
 
Paying for Performance? Research Spending and Knowledge Production in Universities
Alexander Whalley, Justin Hicks
 
The Impact of School Choice on Students' University Entrance Rank Scores in Australia
Christopher Ryan, Louise Watson
 
Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad
Chad Sparber, Takao Kato
 
 
G09: Active Labour Market Programmes
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Archaeology LT
Chair: Stepan Jurajda
 
Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments
Eleanor Choi
 
Are Active Labour Market Programs Least Effective Where They Are Most Needed? The Case of the British New Deal for Young People
Duncan Mcvicar, Jan M. Podivinsky
 
The Impact of Active Labour Market Policy on Post-Unemployment Outcomes: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Denmark
Sylvie Blasco, Michael Rosholm
 
 
G10: Unemployment Insurance
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Roberts G06
Chair: Jan Van Ours
 
Unemployment Insurance, Human Capital and Financial Markets
Antonio Mele
 
The Design of Unemployment Transfers - Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
 
Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
Jan Van Ours, Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Milan Vodopivec
 
 
G11: Business Cycles
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Cruciform LT2
Chair: Thomas DeLeire
 
National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail
Lars Vilhuber,  John M. Abowd
 
On the Cyclicality of Unemployment: Resurrecting the Participation Margin
Monique Ebell
 
A Lost Generation? The Impact of Recessions on the Long-Term Earnings of Labor Market Entrants
Thomas DeLeire
 
 
G12: Trade Liberalization and Trade Patterns
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Drayton Ricardo LT
Chair: Peter Kuhn
 
Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions and Trade Patterns
Christian Holzner, Mario Larch
 
Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s
Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez, Chinhui Juhn, James Airola
 
Trade Liberalization and Worker Displacement: Evidence from Large Trade Reforms in Colombia
Maurice Kugler, Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler
 
 
G13: Pensions
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Roberts G08
Chair: Alexander Danzer
 
Do Personalized Pension Projections Affect Retirement Decisions: Evidence for Chile
Jorge Alberto Miranda
 
Moving from a Pay as You Go to a Defined Contributions Pension Scheme…
Ximena Quintanilla
 
Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
Alexander Danzer
 
 
G14: Risks
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Pearson (North East Entrance) LT
Chair: Melanie Khamis
 
Starting Wages Respond to Employers's Risk
Hans Van Ophem, Joop Hartog, Peter Berkhout
 
Wage Risk, On-the-job Search and Partial Insurance
Kai Liu
 
Risk Attitudes and the Incidence of Informality among Workers: Evidence from a Transition Country
Melanie Khamis, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann
 
 
G15: Families and Child Outcomes
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Harrie Massey
Chair: Kjell Salvanes
 
Income Shocks and Investments in Human Capital
Rita Ginja
 
The Effect of Parental Characteristics and Present Labor Market Outcomes on Children's Educational Choices
Anna Laura Mancini
 
Children of Unknown Fathers: Prevalence and Outcomes in Sweden
Marianne Sundström, Anders Björklund, Karin Hederos Eriksson
 
 
G16: Peer Effects
Saturday 19 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Gordon House 106
Chair: Giacomo De Giorgi
 
Estimating Class Peer Effects at Brazilian Primary Schools Employing a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Martin F. Koppensteiner
 
Peer Effects and the Freshman 15: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Olga Yakusheva, Kandice Kapinos, Marianne Weiss
 
When They're Sixty-Four: Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement
Ron Laschever, Kristine Brown
 
 

EALE/SOLE 2010
UCL London 17 - 19 June

Artwork by Eddie Farrell, Michael Wedgewood, Corinna Till and Emma Hart (The Slade School of Fine Art)


The EALE/SOLE 3rd International conference is sponsored by:
 



Economics Department
 


 


 


 


 


 

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UCL
Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT
 

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