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Sessions A                                                                                   Back to programme

Friday 22 September 2006                                                  Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours

A01 - Discrimination 1
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 1
Chair:  Dan-Olof Rooth
 
Firm-Specific Gender and Ethnicity Pay Differentials in Britain
NIkolaes Theodoropoulos, Stephen Pudney
 
National Origin Wage Differentials in France. Evidence From Matched Employer-Employee Data
Romain Aeberhardt, Julien Pouget
 
Male Catholic/Protestant Earnings and Employment Differences in Northern Ireland
David Blackaby, Nigel O'Leary, Derek Leslie, Philip Murphy
 
Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish labor Market Using Experimental Data
Dan- Olof Rooth, Magnus Carlsson
 
A02 - Education 1: School Tracking
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 7
Chair:  Giorgio Brunello
 
Ability Grouping and Incentives
Gerald Eisenkopf
 
Detracking Swedish Secondary Schools – Any Losers, Any Winners?
Krister Sund
 
Age at School Entry and Teacher's Recommendations for Secondary School Track Choice in Germany
Kerstin Schneider, Hendrik Jürges
 
Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogenous?
Giorgio Brunello, K Ariga, R Iwahashi, L Rocco
 
A03 - Education 2: Class Size Effects
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 8
Chair:  Beatrice Schindler Rangvid
 
Estimation of Class-Size Effects, Using the Angrist-Lavy Instrument to Estimate the Class-Size Effects: The Case of French Junior High Schools
Mohammed Badra Mahjoub, Robert J. Gary-Bobo
 
Maimonides Goes to Norway: Class Size, Teachers and Student Achievement
Marte Ronning, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek
 
The Effects of School Class Size on Length of Post-Compulsory Education: Some Cost-Benefit Analysis
Paul Bingley, Vibeke Myrup Jensen, Ian Walker
 
Class Size Effects on Early Labour Market Outcomes
Beatrice Schindler Rangvid, Eskil Heinesen
 
A04 - Health and Job Satisfaction 1: Job Satisfaction
Location: IES Room: 602
Chair:  Regien Biesma
 
New Evidence on Cross-Country Differences in Job Satisfaction Using Anchoring Vignettes
Edvard Johansson, Nik Kristensen
 
Would You Accept This Job ? A Tentative Evaluation of the Decision Utility of Workers in the For-Profit and Nonprofit Sectors.
Joseph Lanfranchi, Makram Larguem, Mathieu Narcy
 
Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, and On-The-Job Search: Is There a Nexus?
Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas
 
The Effect of Skill Mismatch and Educational Mismatch on Job Satisfaction, Does it Matter?
Regien Biesma, Rolf Van der Velden, Godefridus Van Merode, Wim Groot
 
A05 - Labour Demand and Employment 1: Wages, Contracts
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 11
Chair:  Martin Kocher
 
Composition of Firms versus Composition of Jobs: The Impact of Labor Market and Product Market Deregulations
Antoni Cunyat
 
The importance of education for the reallocation of labor - evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002
Marie Gartell, Ann-Christin Jans , Helena Persson
 
Relational Contracts with Individual and Standardized Wages
Martin Kocher, Wolfgang Luhan, Matthias Sutter
 
A06 - Labour Market Policy 1: Employment Regulations and Fixed Term Contracts
Location: IES  Room: 314
Chair:  Eliana Viviano
 
Temporary Contracts, Employment Protection and Skill: an Application to Spain
Elena Casquel, Antoni Cunyat
 
Effects of Employment Protection Legislation on Wages: a Regression Discontinuity Approach
Giovanni Pica, Marco Leonardi
 
Entry Regulations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Italian Retail Trade Sector
Eliana Viviano
 
A07 - Labour Supply 1
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 10
Chair:  Peter Simmons
 
Assessing the “Engines of Liberation”: Home Appliances and Female Labor Force Participation
Jose Tavares, T Cavalcanti
 
The Effect of Transfer Payments on the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Noam Zussman, Roni Frish
 
Does work pay? Incidence of unemployment and inactivity traps in the Czech Republic
Kamil Galuscak, Jan Pavel
 
The Comparative Effectiveness of Public Policies to Fight Motherhood-Induced Employment Penalties and Decreasing Fertility in the Former EU-15
Jérôme De Henau, Danièle Meulders, Síle O'Dorchai
 
Joint Labour Participation
Peter Simmons
 
A08 - Macroeconomics of Unemployment 1: Matching Models of Unemployment
Location: IES Room: 205
Chair: Stefan Eriksson
 
Equilibrium Unemployment Duration in an Urn-Ball Model of the Labour Market
Juha Virrankoski, Klaus Kullti, Antti Miettunen
 
Labour Market Dynamics in Germany: Hirings, Separations, and Job-to-Job Transitions over the Business Cycle
Ronald Bachmann
 
The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US one?
Jose Ignacio Silva, Hector Sala
 
Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?
Stefan Eriksson, Mikael Carlsson, Nils Gottfries
A09 - Microeconomics of Unemployment 1
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 314
Chair:  Arjan Heyma
 
Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? – New Evidence on an Old Question
Martin Söderström, P Fredriksson
 
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
Pedro Portugal, John T. Addison, Mario Centeno
 
How do Extended Benefits and Early Retirement Rules affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Rafael Lalive
 
How Eligibility Criteria and Entitlement Characteristics of Unemployment Benefits Affect Job Finding Rates of Elderly Workers
Arjan Heyma, Jan Van Ours
 
A10 - Migration 1: The Determinants of Migration
Location: IES Room: 109
Chair:  Melanie Arntz
 
Sex and Migration: Who Is the Tied Mover?
Olle Westerlund, Johanna Astrom
 
Group-Specific Effects of Interregional Mobility on Earnings – A Microdata Analysis for Germany
Florian Lehmer, Joachim Möller
 
Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde
 
What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job
Matches in Germany
Melanie Arntz
 
A11 - Occupational Choice, Mobility and Professional Labour Markets 1: Employment Contracts
Location: IES Room: 105
Chair: Anne Gielen
 
Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes
Holger Bonin
 
Non-market Leadership Experience and Labor Market Success: Evidence From Military Rank
Yip Chun Seng
 
The Workers' Value of the Remaining Employment Contract Duration
Jos van Ommeren, Mihails Hazans
 
Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?
Anne Gielen, J Van Ours
A12 - Unions, Bargaining and Conflict Resolutions 1
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 9
Chair:  Andy Charlwood
 
Bargaining Structure and Within Establishment Wage Inequality in four European Countries: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Elena Cottini, Nicola Orlando, Carlo Dell'Aringa, Claudio Lucifora
 
Erosion of the Ghent System and Union Membership Decline: Lessons from Finland
Petri Böckerman, R Uusitalo
 
Decentralized Wage Setting in Denmark after 1993?
Niels Westergaard-Nielsen
 
Did Union Decline Cause the Growth in Male Wage Inequality in Great Britain during the 1990s? New Estimates Based on Collective Bargaining Coverage
Andy Charlwood, Chris Forde
 
A13 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 1: Recent International Trends in Wage inequality
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 320
Chair: Friedhelm Pfeiffer
 
Earnings inequality in Europe: Structure and patterns of inter-temporal changes
Panos Tsakloglou, Ioannis CHOLEZAS
 
Wage Inequality in Spain: Recent Developments
Mario Izquierdo, Aitor Lacuesta
 
Re-assessing Trends in Wage-Inequality in Germany
Johannes Ludsteck, Christian Dustmann, Uta Schoenberg
 
Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Friedhelm Pfeiffer, J Gernandt

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