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Saturday 23 September 2006 Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours

D01 - Discrimination 2
Location: IES	Room: 105
Chair: Andrea Ichino

Does the Presence of Unions in Establisments Reduces the Gender Wage Gap? An Econometric Analysis
Pascale Petit, Emmanuel Duguet

Does High Product Market Competition Benefit Women and Immigrants?
Pal Schøne, Marianne Røed

The Role of Segregation and Pay Structure on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain
Sara De la Rica, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti

D02 - Education 7: Child Health, Development and Education
Location CERGE-EI	Room: 8
Chair: Fali Huang

Child Labour and Educational Success in Portugal
Arjun Bedi, Pedro Goulart

Non-pecuniary returns to higher education: The effect on smoking in the UK
Massimiliano Bratti, AM Miranda

Child Development Production Functions
Fali Huang

D03 - Education 8: Returns to Education
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 7
Chair: Michele Belot

Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe
Budria Santiago, Pedro Telhado Pereira

Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications
Erich Battistin, Barbara Sianesi

The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in the UK
Andy Dickerson

The Lost Generation: The Effect of Teacher Strikes on Students - Evidence from Belgium
Michele Belot

D04 - Labour Demand and Employment 4: Specific Employment
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 11
Chair: Jean Louis Rullière

Inward FDI and Demand for Skills in Sweden
Roger Bandick, Pär Hansson

Urban versus Rural Firms: Does Space Matter for Labour Demand ?
Jean-Pierre Huiban

Are Informal Workers Secondary Workers?: Evidence for Argentina
Maria Alzua

Fighting the Moonlighting Demand: Competition and Cooperation with Black Sheeps
Jean Louis Rullière, Nicolas Jacquemet

D05 - Labour Market Policy 4: Active Labour Market Programs
Location: IES	Room 314
Chair: Jochen Kluve

Microeconometric Evaluation of Selected ESF-funded ALMP-Measures
Eva Reinowski, Birgit Schultz

Employment Effects of Different Sequences of Active Labour Market Programmes
Brian Krogh Graversen

The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy
Jochen Kluve

D06 - Labour Markets in Transition Economies 3: Policies and Labour Market
Location: CERGE-EI	Room 1
Chair: Ian Babetskii

Bridging the Technology-Gap in Economic Transition, the J-Curve of Growth and Unemployment
Pascal Hetze

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas

Aggregate Wage Flexibility in the Selected New EU Member States
Ian Babetskii

D07 - Labour Supply: Absenteism and Health
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 10
Chair: Richard Dorsett

The Effects of Economic Incentives and Working Environment on Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Jonas Lagerström

Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy
Frederic Vermeulen, Adriaan Kalwij

Sickness Absence and Spousal Labour Supply
Ruth Aida Nahum

Labour Market Transitions Among the Over-50s
Richard Dorsett, Lorenzo Cappellari

D08 - Microeconomics of Unemployment 3
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 314
Chair: Torben Tranaes

Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
Ronald Wolthoff, Pieter Gautier

Efficiency Wages and Severance Payments with Endogenous Shocks
Florian Baumann

Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
Konstantinos Tatsiramos

Crime and the Labor Market in Denmark
Torben Tranaes, Susumu Imai, Kala Krishna

D09 - Migration 4: Assimilation Issues
Location: IES	Room: 109
Chair: Carlos Devillanova

Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrants in Spain: Employment at the Expense of Overqualification
Christina Fernandez, Carolina Ortega

Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France
Dominique Meurs, Xin Meng

Age at Immigration and School Performance: A Siblings Analysis Using Swedish Register Data
Anders Böhlmark

Social networks, Information and Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Undocumented Immigrants in Milan
Carlos Devillanova

D10 - Personnel Economics 2: Experimental
Location: IES	Room: 205
Chair: Marie-Claire Villeval

When Equality is Unfair: Social Norms Between and Within Levels of a Hierarchy
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral

Team Incentives in Public Organizations: An Experimental Study
Sander Onderstal, J Vyrastekova, P Koning

Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Tor Eriksson, Sabrina Teyssier, Marie-Claire Villeval

Effort and Comparison Income - Survey and experimental evidence
Marie-Claire Villeval, A Clark, D Masclet

D11 - Regional Labour Markets 2: Regional Equilibration, Matching and Employment
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 9
Chair: Federica Origo

Regional Matching Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment
Aki Kangasharju, Sanna-Mari Hynninen, Jaakko Pehkonen

Bank Loans and Employment in Italian Firms
Guiseppe Rose, Patrizia Ordine

Does it Pay to Study Far from Home? Explaining the Returns to Geographic Mobility of Italian College Graduates
Mattia Makovec

Wage Curve in Germany and Italy: a New Holy Grail?
Federica Origo, Andreas Ammermueller, Claudio Lucifora, Thomas Zwick

D12 - Unions, Bargaining and Conflict Resolutions 2
Location: IES	Room: 602
Chair: Sabien Dobbelaere

Severance Pay and the Shadow of the Law: Evidence for West Germany
Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, and Decompositions
Karsten Kohn, Bernd Fitzenberger, Qingwei Wang

Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities in Collective Bargaining Agreements
Paris Nearchou, Louis Christofides

Cross-sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France
Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

D13 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 4: Skills, Gender and Wage Inequality
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 320
Chair: Daniela Vuri

The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited
Alexandra Spitz-Oener

The Effect of Early Cognitive Ability over the Life-Cycle: Wages and Employer Learning
Sofia Sandgren, Torberg Falch

Are Specific Skills An Obstacle To Labor Market Adjustment? Theory And An Application To The EU Enlargement
Julián Messina, Etienne Wasmer, Ana Lamo

Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy
Daniela Vuri, Emilia Del Bono

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