Session Programme

F01 - Education 10: Returns to Skills and Technology
Room:CERGE-EI	Room 7
Chair: Don Williams

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?
Olmo Silva, Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally

Are Early Investments in Computer Skills Rewarded in the Labor Market?
Ferran Mane, John Bishop

The Economic Returns to Multiple Language Usage in Western Europe
Don Williams

F02 - Family and Work 4: Intergenerational Transfers
Location: CERGE-EI	Room 1
Chair: Laura Crespo

Intergenerational Transfer and Child Care.
Miriam Marcén, Joaquín Andaluz, José Alberto Molina

Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from Around Europe
François-Charles Wolff, Ralitza Dimova

Parental Caregiving and Employment Status of European Mid-Life Women
Laura Crespo


F03 - Health and Job Satisfaction 4: Workplace Health & Compensating Differentials
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 314
Chair: Pauline Givord

Dirty Money: Is there a Wage Premium for Working in a Pollution Intensive Job?
Robert Elliott, Matthew Cole, Joanne Lindley

Wages and Risks at the Workplace: Evidence from Linked Firm-Worker Data
Oliver Ruf, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

UK Workplace Injuries in the Context of Occupational Change, 1986 - 2004
Paul Jones, Rhys Davies

The impact of working conditions on absenteeism
Pauline Givord, Cédric Afsa

F04 - Labour Market Policy 6: Labour Market Transitions and Public Policies
Location: IES	Room 314
Chair: Paolo Naticchioni

Fixed-term contracts as sorting mechanisms: Evidence from job durations in West Germany
Bernhard Boockmann, T Hagen

A Comprehensive Evaluation of ESF Financed Labour Market Policy in Germany
Michael Rothgang, Verena Gross, Michael Schumacher

The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions between Different Labour Market States
Peter J. Sloane, Melanie Jones, Richard Jones, Philip Murphy

Unemployment vs Employment transitions in Italy: An Evaluation of Public Employment Services
Paolo Naticchioni, Silvia Loriga

F05 - Macroeconomics of Unemployment 4: Unemployment and Search
Location: IES	Room: 205
Chair: Bertil Holmlund

Do I have what it takes? Equilibrium Search With Uncertainty About the Self
Uwe Sunde, Armin Falk, David Huffman

Unemployment Benefits: Between Efficiency and Equality
Audrey Desbonnet

How Aging of the Labor Force Affects Equilibrium Unemployment
Carsten Ochsen, Pascal Hetze

Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Bertil Holmlund, P Engström

F06 - Migration 6: Heterogeneity and Selectivity Issues
Location: IES	Room: 109
Chair: Christian Bayer

International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
Herbert Bruecker, Philipp J.H. Schroeder

The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence
Cécily Defoort, Herbert Bruecker

A Generalized Options Approach to Aggregate Migration with an Application to US Federal States
Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen

F07 - Migration 7: Selectivity and Returns to Mobility
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 10
Chair: Arne Uhlendorff

Self-Selection and the Returns to Geographic Mobility: What Can be Learned from the German Unification "Experiment"
Anzelika Zaiceva

Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany Revisited: The Importance of Omitted Variable and Attrition Bias
Stefanie Schurer, Michael Fertig

Differences in Unemployment Dynamics between Migrants and Natives in Germany
Arne Uhlendorff , Klaus F. Zimmermann

F08 - Personnel Economics 4: Theory II
Location: IES	Room: 105
Chair: Guido Merzoni

Complementarity Between Heterogenous Human Capital and R&D: Can Job-training Avoid Low Developments Traps?
Sergio Scicchitano

The Rise of Individual Performance Pay
Ola Kvaløy, Trond E. Olsen

On the Optimal Length of Delegation: Stable Relationships in an Unstable Environment.
Guido Merzoni, Ferdinando Colombo


F09 - Regional Labour Markets 3
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 11
Chair: Frank Cörvers

Structural Change and Regional Employment Dynamics
Uwe Blien, Helge Sanner

Structural Change, Employment Specialisation and Regional Labour Market Performance: Evidence for the U.K.
Martin Robson

Why ‘Less is More’ and the North-South Divide in Self-Employment in England
Michael Nolan, Andrew Burke, Felix FitzRoy

The Delimitation and Coherence of Functional and Administrative Regions
Frank Cörvers, M. Hensen, D. Bongaerts

F10 - Training 2: Firms' Training Decision
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 8
Chair: Anja Kuckulenz

Technological Change, Firm's Boundary Changes and Older Workers' Training.
Elisabetta Magnani

An Empirical Analysis of the Decision to Train Apprentices
Samuel Muehlemann, J Schweri, R Winkelmann, S Wolter

Who pays for training of fixed-term workers? Empirical evidence for Germany using selection correction
Jan Sauermann

Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis
Anja Kuckulenz

F11 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 6: Turbulence, Inflation and Wages

Location: CERGE-EI

Room: 320

Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari

Melanie Ward, William Dickens, lorenz Goette, Erica Groshen, steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen

Maria Cervini, Xavier Ramos

Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Leonardi


F12 - Welfare Income Distribution and Poverty
Location: CERGE-EI	Room: 9
Chair: Hilary Hoynes

Happiness and Loss Aversion: When Social Participation Dominates Comparison
Maarten Vendrik, Geert Woltjer

Checking the Consistency of Poverty in Poland: 1997 - 2003 Evidence
Adam Szulc

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project
Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Bitler, John Gelbach

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