Session programme

B01 - Family and Work 1
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 9
Chair: Mette Gørtz

Relative Income in Intrahousehold Analysis of Financial Satisfaction: Sources and Contributions
Arantza Ugidos, Namkee Ahn, Victoria Ateca

Household Consumption Choices in the Presence of Several Decision Makers
Guy Lacroix, Anyck Dauphin, Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga, Bernard Fortin

Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Dan Anderberg

Household Production in the Family – Work or Pleasure?
Mette Gørtz

B02 - Education 3: Peer and Background Effects in Education
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 7
Chair: Sarah Brown

Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
Andreas Ammermueller, Joern-Steffen Pischke

Peer Effects in Primary School: Evidence from Age Variation
Bjarne Strom, Sofia Sandgren

Academic Performance and Early School Leaving: Before and After National Examinations
Sholeh Maani, Guyonne Kalb

Bullying, Education and Labour Market Outcomes Evidence from the National Child Development Study
Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor

B03 - Education 4: Intergenerational Mobility
Location CERGE-EI	Room: 8
Chair: Arnaud Chevalier

Family Background and Danish Secondary Educational Choices: Results from Five Cohorts
Martin Munk, James McIntosh

Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Mating - Effects of an Educational Reform
Helena Holmlund

Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah

Mother’s Education and Birth Weight
Arnaud Chevalier, Vincent O’Sullivan

B04 - Internal Labour Markets and Labour Relations 1
Location: IES	Room: 602
Chair: Heike Hennig-Schmidt

Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision
Dennis Dittrich, Martin Kocher

The Acceptability of Layoffs and Pay Cuts: Comparing North America with Germany
Gesine Stephan, K Gerlach, D Levine, O Struck

Gift Exchange and the Separation of Ownership and Control
Sandra Maximiano, Randolph Sloof, Joep Sonnemans

Incomplete and Asymmetric Surplus Information in Labor Relations
Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh

B05 - Labour Demand and Employment 2: Adjustments
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 11
Chair: Stefano Scarpetta

Labor Adjustment Dynamics in Brazilian Manufacturing
Gustavo Gonzaga

Interrelationships Between Labor and Capital Adjustment Decisions
Edlira Narazani

Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel of Establishments.
Joao Miguel Ejarque, Pedro Portugal

Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Size and Regulations
Stefano Scarpetta, John Haltiwanger, Helena Schweiger

B06 - Labour Market Policy 2: Monitoring and Benefit Generosity
Location: IES	Room 314
Chair: Maarten Lindeboom

Can They Be Pushed Out of Unemployment? – Activation through Strict Eligibility Rules
Ulla Hämäläinen, Kari Hämäläinen

I'll (not) be Watching You: Does Job Search Monitoring Intensity affect Unemployment?
Duncan McVicar

Screening Disability Insurance Applications
Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw, Philip De Jong

B07 - Labour Markets in Transition Economies 1: Wage Structures and Skills in the Transition
Location: CERGE-EI	Room 1
Chair: Ina Ganguli

Skill Acquisition, Firm Creation and the Transition to Market
Zuzana Brixiova, Wenli Li, Tarik Yousef

Firms’ Wage and Recruitment Policies During Transition
Marton Csillag

Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition
Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell

B08 - Labour Supply 2
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 10
Chair: Kristian Orsini

The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
Guido Heineck

Heterogeneity of the unemployment insurance sytem: lazyness or simply income effects?
Mário Centeno, Alvaro Novo,

`Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market: the Mini-Job Reform in Germany
Olivier Bargain, Peter Haan, Marco Caliendo, Kristian Orsini

Tax-Benefits Reforms and the Labor Market: Evidence from Belgium and other EU Countries
Kristian Orsini

B09 - Migration 2: Empirical Macro Aspects
Location: IES	Room: 109
Chair: Michele Pellizzari

The Labour Market Impact of Immigration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Albrecht Glitz

Internal Migrations and Regional Convergence: The Spanish Case
Gemma Larramona, M Sanso

Welfare Magnets in Europe and the Costs of a Harmonised Social Assistance
Michele Pellizzari, Giacomo De Giorgi

B10 - Occupational Choice, Mobility and Professional Labour Markets 2: Occupational Markets/Self-Employment
Location: IES	Room: 105
Chair: Nabanita Datta Gupta

Intergenerational Transmission in Self Employment: Evidence from the French Data of the ECHP
David Masclet, Nathalie Colombier

Employees who become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages have an Impact?
Eskil Wadensjö, Pernilla Andersson

The Gender Wage Gap and the Sectoral Divide, The Case of Germany 1997 - 2003
Joan Muysken, Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders U. Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

B11 - Retirement and early exit: Retirement
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 314
Chair: Thepthida Sopraseuth

Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts: Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities
Giovanni Mastrobuoni

The Effect of the Pension Reform on Retirement Age and Income Distribution - Estimates from a Dynamic Programming Model
Tuulia Hakola, Niku Määttänen

Self-Directed Pensions: Gender, Risk and Portfolio Choices
Jenny Säve-Söderbergh

How Large is the Retirement Consumption Drop in Italy?
Enrico Rettore, Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini, Guglelmo Weber

The Interaction Between Retirement and Job Search : A Global Approach To Older Workers Employment
Thepthida Sopraseuth, J Hairault, F Langot

B12 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 2: Job Mobility
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 320
Chair: Ana Rute Cardoso

Inter-Firm Employee Mobility, Wages, and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers
Pedro Martins

Studying the Impact of Job Mobility on Wage Growth at the Beginning of the Employment Career in Spain.
Maria A. Davia

My Pay is Too Bad (I Quit). Your Pay is Too Good (You're Out)
Johan M. Kuhn

Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility
Ana Rute Cardoso

B13 - Working Hours
Location: IES	Room: 205
Chair: Alison Booth

Are the French Happy with the 35-Hours Workweek?
Filipa Sa, Marcello Estevao

Overtime Work as a Signaling Device
Silke Anger

Technology and Working Time
Philippe Askenazy

Hours of Work and Gender identity: Does part-time Work Make the Family Happier?
Alison Booth, Jan Van Ours

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