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Contributed Sessions A

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Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30

A01: Training
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Gordon House 106
Chair: Kevin Lang
 
Poaching and Apprenticeship Training: An Empirical Assessment
Jens Mohrenweiser, Thomas Zwick, Uschi Backes-Gellner
 
Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Training
Stephen Kastoryano, Bas Van der Klaauw
 
Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training. Evidence from Vacancy Data
Matthias Parey
 
The Effects of Intra-Firm Training on Earnings and Job Performance – Evidence from a Large German Company
Patrick Kampkötter, Kathrin Breuer
 
Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training: A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe
Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello
 
 
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A02: Randomized Experiments
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Drayton Ricardo LT
Chair: Andrea Ichino
 
The Influence of Parents and Peers on Pupils: a Randomized Experiment
Francesco Avvisati, Marc Gurgand, Nina Guyon, Eric Maurin
 
Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn:Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas
 
IT Training Courses and Wage Growth - Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Samuel Muehlemann, Dolores Messer, Stefan Wolter
 
Does Gender Matter for Academic Promotion? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Natalia Zinovyeva, Manuel Bagues
 
 
A03: Returns to Higher Education
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Chair: Robin Naylor
 
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Erez Siniver, Kevin Lang
 
University Quality and Earnings - Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in the UK
Stijn Broecke
 
Estimates of the Causal Effects of Education on Earnings over the Lifecycle: UK Evidence from a Non-separable Specification with Cohort Effects and Endogenous Education
Giuseppe Migali, Ian Walker
 
Educational Returns, Ability Composition and Cohort Effects: Theory and Evidence for Cohorts of Early-Career UK graduates
Robin Naylor, Norman Ireland, Jeremy Smith, Shqiponja Telhaj
 
 
A04: Peer Effects and Social Interactions
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.02
Chair: Imran Rasul
 
The Wage Effects of Social Norms: Evidence of Deviations from Peers' Body-Mass in Europe
Elmar Janssen, René  Fahr
 
Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
Fabian Waldinger
 
Peer Effects and Measurement Error: The Impact of Sampling Variation in School Survey Data
John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf, Pedro Silva
 
Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom
Michele Pellizzari, Giacomo De Giorgi
 
 
A05: Job Search Processes
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Archaeology LT
Chair: Jean-Marc Robin
 
Optimal Labor Market Policy with Search Frictions and Risk-Averse Workers
Jean-Baptiste Michau
 
The Effects of Job Search Requirements for the Older Unemployed
Marloes Lammers, Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel
 
Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?
Simonetta Longhi, Mark Taylor
 
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Arne Uhlendorff
 
 
A06: Fertility, Parental Leave and Female Participation
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Chadwick LT
Chair: Maia Guell
 
How do Employment Protection and Parental Leave Benefits Affect Mothers' Post-Birth Careers?
Analía Schlosser, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimuller
 
Modeling the Italian Female Labour Market Participation with Infertility Shocks
Roberta Zizza, Concetta Rondinelli
 
Access To the Birth Control Pill and Young People's Career Plans
Herdis Steingrimsdottir
 
The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility Decisions of Their Children across Europe
Maria Navarro, Ian Walker
 
 
A07: Minimum Wages
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Anatomy J Z Young LT
Chair: Ana Rute Cardoso
 
The Effect of Social Security Taxes And Minimum Wages on Employment in Turkey
Kerry Papps
 
Minimum Wages and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities among Teens
Chad Cotti, Scott Adams, McKinley Blackburn
 
The National Minimum Wage at Age 22: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Richard Dickens, Rebecca Riley, David Wilkinson
 
Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data
Ana Rute Cardoso
 
 
A08: Earnings
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Drayton Jevons LT
Chair: Joe Altonji
 
Within- and Cross-firm Mobility and Earnings Growth
Anders Frederiksen, Timothy Halliday, Alexander Koch
 
Stop Smoking, Your Paycheck Will Thank You! Wage Effects from Smoking Cessation
Michael Kvasnicka, Silke Anger
 
HIV, Wages and Labor Productivity
Ioana Marinescu, Jane G. Fortson
 
Cross-country Comparisons of Wage Rates: The McWage Index
Stepan Jurajda, Orley Ashenfelter
 
 
A09: Neighbourhood Effects
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Gustave Tuck
Chair: Jeffrey Smith
 
School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
Leah Boustan
 
Can Neighbourhoods Change the Decisions of Youth on the Margins of University Participation?
Kelly Foley
 
Moving into the Projects: Social Housing Neighbourhoods and School Performance in England
Felix Weinhardt
 
Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Low Income Youth
Jeffrey Smith, Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig
 
 
A10: Immigrant Flows
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Roberts G08
Chair: Ott Toomet
 
The Sluggish Movement of Workers: Rethinking Immigration Absorption, Rybczynski Effects and Wage Responses
Joan Monras
 
Self-Reinforcing Shocks: Evidence from a Resettlement Policy
Matti Sarvimaki, Aki Kangasharju
 
Timing is Everything: Immigrant and Native Location Dynamics in the U.S.
Abigail Wozniak, Thomas J. Murray
 
Language Skills and Social Integration: Ethnic Disparities in Bilingual Economy
Ott Toomet, Jaanika Meriküll
 
 
A11: Intergenerational Income Mobility
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Christopher Ingold Chemistry LT
Chair: Matthew Lindquist
 
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino
 
Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan
 
Revisiting Intergenerational Mobility Using a Copula Dynamic Earnings Model
Tak Wai Chau
 
Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Matthew J. Lindquist , Lars Lefgren, David Sims
 
 
A12: Trade Unions
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.03
Chair: John Pencavel
 
Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries?
Alejandro Donado
 
Are Union Representatives Discriminated ? Evidence From France
Thomas Breda
 
Union Wage Setting and the Distribution of Employees' Earnings: Evidence from Certification Elections
Brigham Frandsen
 
 
A13: Health
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Harrie Massey (25 Gordon St)
Chair: Stacey Chen
 
The Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Lead Exposure: Evidence from the Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline
Peter Nilsson
 
Does More Schooling Improve Health Behaviours and Health Outcomes? Evidence from U.K. Twins
Vikesh Amin, Jere Behrman, Tim Spector
 
Work Disruption, Worker Health and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching
Johan Rockoff,  Mariesa A. Herrmann
 
Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Stacey Chen, Josh Angrist, Brigham Frandsen
 
 
A14: Assortative Matching
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Roberts G06
Chair: John Abowd
 
Trends in Earnings Instability of Couples: How Important is Marital Sorting?
Chinhui Juhn, Kristin McCue
 
Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Model of Assortative Matching
Teng Ge
 
A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
John Abowd, Francis Kramarz
 
 
A15: Issues Within Firms
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Pearson (North East Entrance) LT
Chair:  Luigi Pistaferri
 
The Right Amount of Trust
Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso
 
Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Intergroup Competition in the Workplace
Takao Kato, Pian Shu
 
Splitting Tournaments
Bas van der Klaauw, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek
 
Credit Within the Firm
Luigi Pistaferri, Luigi Guiso, Fabiano Schivardi
 
 
A16: Labour Market Flows
Thursday 17 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Cruciform LT1
Chair: Thomas Bauer
 
Labor Market Flows and Vacancies in the Cross Section and Over Time
Jason R, Faberman, Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger
 
Flexible Employment, Job Flows and Labour Productivity
Marco Leonardi, Lorenzo Cappellari, Carlo Dell'Aringa
 
Do Smaller Labor Market Entry Cohorts Really Reduce German Unemployment?
Alfred Garloff, Carsten Pohl, Norbert Schanne
 
Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility
Thomas K. Bauer, Ronald Bachmann, Peggy David
 

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)


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