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A01 - Discrimination 1
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
D01 - Discrimination 2
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
E01 -Discrimination 3
Saturday 23 September                                    Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 9
Chair: Malathi Velamuri
 
Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk: Evidence from Germany and the US
Sandra Schaffner
 
Relative Labour Deprivation
Paolo Verme
 
Will Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment.
Manuel Bagüés, Berta Esteve-Volart
 
Job Attachment Patterns of Men and Women: The Role of Promotion Expectations and Experience
Malathi Velamuri, Richard Prisinzano
 
A02 - Education 1: School Tracking
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
B02 - Education 3: Peer and Background Effects in Education
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C01 - Education 5: Progression and attainment in HE, Evidence from Italy
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 7
Chair:  Andrea Ichino
 
The Impact of Supply Side Policies on University Drop-Out: The Italian Experience
Giorgio Di Pietro, Andrea Cutillo
 
Is ‘3+2’ Equal to 4? On the Effects of University Reform in Italy
Stefano Staffolani, Massimiliano Bratti, Chiara Broccolini
 
Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainment? Evidence From Italy
Marco Leonardi, Christian Belzil
 
College Cost and time to obtain a degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Rettore, Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi
 
C02 - Education 6: Equal Opportunities in Education
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location CERGE-EI Room: 8
Chair: Deborah Wilson
 
On the Integration of Immigrant Children in Education
Nicole Schneeweis
 
Ethnic and Parental Effects on Schooling Outcomes Before and During the Transition: Evidence from the Baltic Countries
Mihails Hazans, Olga Rastrigina, Ija Trapeznikova
 
The Expansion of Higher Education and the Issue of Equality of Opportunity
Susanna Holzer
 
The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s Ethnic Minorities
Deborah Wilson, Simon Burgess
 
D02 - Education 7: Child Health, Development and Education
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
E02 - Education 9: Social and Non-Monetary Returns to Education
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 7
Chair: Roope Uusitalo
 
Are there asymmetries in the Pay Penalty of Over-education?: Evidence Across Europe
Ana I. Moro-Egido, Santiago Budría
 
Over Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
Joanne Lindley, A. Chevalier
 
Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation
Christian Holzner, A Launov
 
Sorting out the sorting vs. human capital debate
Roope Uusitalo, Ulla Hämäläinen
 
F01 - Education 10: Returns to Skills and Technology
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
B01 - Family and Work 1
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C03 - Family and Work 2: Martial Status, Work and Income
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 9
Chair:  Andrea Christina Felfe
 
The equity-efficiency tradeoff: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform
Roger Wahlberg, Katarina Nordblom, Anna Brink
 
Human Capital Depreciation during Family-Related Career Interruptions in Male and Female Occupations
Dennis Goerlich, Andries De Grip
 
Selection or Specialization? The Impact of Legal Marriage on Adult earnings in Sweden
Marianne Sundström, Donna Ginther, Anders Björklund
 
The Child Penalty-a Compensating Wage Differential
Andrea Christina Felfe
 
E03 - Family and Work 3: Employment and Child Welfare
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room 1
Chair: John Ekberg
 
Does Child Welfare Depend on Parents' Employment?
Angelo Andersen, Mette Deding, Mette Lausten
 
Allocation of Parental Time and the Long Term Effect on Children
Astrid Würtz
 
Parental Leave in Sweden: The Effects of the Second Daddy Month
Rickard Eriksson
 
Parental Leave - A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
John Ekberg, Rickard Eriksson, Guido Friebel
 
F02 - Family and Work 4: Intergenerational Transfers
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
A04 - Health and Job Satisfaction 1: Job Satisfaction
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
 
C04 - Health and Job Satisfaction 2: Job security & Workers' Health
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 10
Chair: Laura Larsson
 
Happiness and Health: Well-being among the Self-Employed
Pernilla Andersson
 
Are Fixed-Term Jobs Bad for your Health? A Comparison of West-Germany and Spain.
Laura Romeu Gordo, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens
 
Job Security and New Restrictive Permanent Contracts. Are Spanish Workers More Worried of Losing Their Job?
Elisabetta Trevisan
 
Plant Closure and Hospitalization
Eskil Heinesen, Martin Browning
 
Moral Hazard Among the Sick and unemployed; Evidence from a Swedish Social Insurance Reform
Laura Larsson, Caroline Runeson
 
E04 - Health and Job Satifaction 3: Employment Discrimination by Body Weight or Disability Status
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 314
Chair: Axel Heitmueller
 
Obesity and Labour Market Outcomes: New Danish Evidence
Jane Greve
 
Disability and Self Employment: Evidence from the UK LFS
Melanie Jones, Paul Latreille
 
Better in Than Out: The Effect of Antidiscrimination Laws on Work Participation Among the Disabled in France
Stephane Robin, Jean-Pierre MARISSAL
 
The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Among the Disabled?
Axel Heitmueller, David Bell
 
F03 - Health and Job Satisfaction 4: Workplace Health & Compensating Differentials
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
   
B04 - Internal Labour Markets and Labour Relations 1
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
E05 - Internal Labour Markets and Labour Relations 2
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 602
Chair: Tim Barmby
 
Exit from Short-Term Contract A French Micro-Econometric Study
Mohammed Ali Ben Halima
 
Dependent Self-Employment in the UK: Workers between Employment and Self-employment
Ulrike Muehlberger, René Böheim
 
Specific Human Capital Accumulation and Job Match Quality – Implications for Measuring Returns to Tenure
Tim Barmby, Barbara Eberth
 
A05 - Labour Demand and Employment 1: Wages, Contracts
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 11
Chair:  Martin Kocher
 
Composition of Firms versus Composition of Jobs: The Impact of Labor Market and Product Market Deregulations
Temporary Contracts and Bad Firms: What Comes First?
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
 
B05 - Labour Demand and Employment 2: Adjustments
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C05 - Labour Demand and Employment 3: Institutions
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 11
Chair: Michael Burda
 
Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller
 
The Labor Effects of Product Market Deregulation: Evidence from US Class 1 Railroads, 1981 to 2001
Laura Padilla, Guido Friebel, Gerard McCullough
 
Corporate Taxation and Labor Market Outcomes: The Taxation of Multinational Corporations and Union Wage Bargaining
Nadine Riedel
 
Unions, Job Protection and Employment
Guilio Piccirilli
 
Blue Laws
Michael Burda, Philippe Weil
 
D04 - Labour Demand and Employment 4: Specific Employment
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
E06 - Labour Demand and Employment 5: Various Topics
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 11
Chair: Sascha Becker
 
Job Creation, Job Destruction and the Life Cycle
Arnaud Cheron, J-O Hairault, F. Langot
 
A Sectoral Analysis of Labour's Share of Income in Canada
Louis Morel
 
Market vs. Institutions: The Trade-off Between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited
Alena Bicakova
 
Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Sascha Becker, Marc-Andreas Muendler
 
A06 - Labour Market Policy 1: Employment Regulations and Fixed Term Contracts
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
B06 - Labour Market Policy 2: Monitoring and Benefit Generosity
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C06 - Labour Market Policy 3: Training
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: IES Room 314
Chair: Ulf Rinne
 
The Responsiveness of Training Participation to Tax Deductibility
Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek
 
Identifying the Impact of Vocational Labour Market Training on Youth Labour Markets
Juha Tuomala, Kari Hämäläinen
 
Employment Effects of Short and Medium Term Further Training Programs in Germany in the Early 2000s
Aderonke Osikominu, Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Marie Waller
 
Costs and Benefits of Publicly Financed Training in Germany
Ulf Rinne, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider
 
D05 - Labour Market Policy 4: Active Labour Market Programs
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
E07 - Labour Market Policy 5: Work Incentives
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: IES Room 314
Chair: Jan Podivinsky
 
Evaluating the German "Mini-Job"-Reform Using a True Natural Experiment
Marco Caliendo, Katharina Wrohlich
 
How Do Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes Differ with Respect to the Foregoing Unemployment Duration?
Stephan Lothar  Thomsen, Reinhard Hujer
 
Turning Unemployed Into Self-Employed: The Relative Effectiveness of Two Programmes in West Germany
Marco Caliendo, Hans Baumgartner
 
Does the Impact of Welfare to Work Depend on the State of the Labour Market? The Case of the UK New Deal for Young People
Jan Podivinsky, Duncan McVicar
 
F04 - Labour Market Policy 6: Labour Market Transitions and Public Policies
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
B07 - Labour Markets in Transition Economies 1: Wage Structures and Skills in the Transition
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C07 Labour Markets in Transition Economies 2: Labour Jobs and Wage Mobility
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room 1
Chair: Monika Hjeds Löfmark
 
How Does Experience and Job Mobility Determine Wage Gain in a Transition and a Non-Transition Economy? The Case of East and West Germany
Joachim Wolff
 
Job Flows and Worker Flows in the Baltic States: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Kaia Philips
 
Family Strategies and Labor Market Behaviour in Modern Russia
Marina Kartseva, Dilyara Ibragimova, Oxana Sinyavskaya, Sergey Zakharov
 
Time Allocation in Taganrog, Russia
Monika Hjeds Löfmark
 
D06 - Labour Markets in Transition Economies 3: Policies and Labour Market
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room 1
Chair: Ian Babetskii
 
Bridging the Technology-Gap in Economic Transition, the J-Cuve 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
 
A07 -Labour Supply 1
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
B08 - Labour Supply 2
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
D07 - Labour Supply: Absenteism and Health
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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, Richard Dorsett
 
E08 - Labour Supply 4
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 10
Chair: Denis Beninger
 
The Relationship between Type of Contract and Firm Ownership Nationality: Evidence from Spain.
Alejandra Traferri
 
Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model
Chris van Klaveren, Bernard Van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink
 
Labour Supply at Zero Wages: What Motivates Volunteers in the USA?
Martin Halla
 
Estimating Household Behaviour under the Eye of Big Brother: Empirical Evidence Using a Synthetic Data
Denis Beninger
 
A08 - Macroeconomics of Unemployment 1: Matching Models of Unemployment
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
C08 - Macroeconomics of Unemployment 2: Unemployment and Growth
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 105
Chair: Sven Schreiber
 
Schumpeterian Growth, Unemployment and Tax/Benefit system in European Countries
Coralla Quintero Rojas, François Langot
 
Endogenous Minimum Wages, Human Capital Accumulation and Growth
Ahmed Tritah
 
Shifts in the Unemployment Rate: The Role of Productivity Growth
Sven Schreiber
 
E09 -Macroeconomics of Unemployment 3: Employment Protection, Legislation and Unemployment
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 205
Chair: Bruno Amable
 
Do Labor Market Conditions Affect the Strictness of Employment Protection Legislation?
Riccardo Tilli, Enrico Saltari
 
Are Labour Market Institutions Endogenous? An Investigation of Unemployment, Unions and Wages
Luca Nunziata, Daniele Checchi
 
Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
Winfried Koeniger, J Prat
 
Institutions, Unemployment and Inactivity in the OECD Countries
Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti, , Lilas Demmou
 
F05 - Macroeconomics of Unemployment 4: Unemployment and Search
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
A09 - Microeconomics of Unemployment 1
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
C09  - Microeconomics of Unemployment 2
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 314
Chair: Fernando Muñoz-Bullón
 
The Earnings Costs of Business Closure in the UK
Richard Upward, A Hijzen, P Wright
 
Hidden Unemployment in Disability Insurance in the Netherlands
Pierre Koning, Daniel Van Vuuren
 
Jobless Duration and Wage Losses after Involuntary Separation from the Job
Anna Okatenko
 
Unemployment Duration, Unemployment Benefits and Recalls
Fernando Muñoz-Bullón, Alfonso Alba-Ramírez, José María Arranz Muñoz
 
D08 - Microeconomics of Unemployment 3
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
A10 - Migration 1: The Determinants of Migration
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
B09 - Migration 2: Empirical Macro Aspects
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C10 - Migration 3: Theory of Optimal Policy
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 109
Chair: Laurent Simula
 
Delayed (or Accelerated) Integration as a Counterforce to Gerontocracy
Silke Uebelmesser
 
Subsidies for wages and infrastructure: How to restrain undesired immigration
Volker Meier, R Fenge
 
Optimal Income Tax when Agents Vote with their Feet
Laurent Simula, Alain Trannoy
 
D09 - Migration 4: Assimilation Issues
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
E10 - Migration 5: Migration, Earnings and the Returns to Mobility
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 109
Chair: Alessandra  Venturini
 
The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany
Thomas Bauer, Mathias Sinning
 
Immigrants' earnings and workplace characteristics
Jose Varejao, AC Carneiro, Natercia Fortuna
 
Migration, Exertion of Effort and Voter Sentiment to Temporary Migration
Alessandra  Venturini, G Epstein
F06 - Migration 6: Heterogeneity and Selectivity Issues
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
A11 - Occupational Choice, Mobility and Professional Labour Markets 1: Employment Contracts
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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 Maret 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
B10 - Occupational Choice, Mobility and Professional Labour Markets 2: Occupational Markets/Self-Employment
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C11 - Personnel Economics 1: Empirics
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 205
Chair: Mikko Mäkinen
 
Judicial Promotion Tournaments in the English High Court
Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Clare Leaver
 
The Determinants of Occupational Pensions
Erik Hernaes, J Piggott, T Zhang, S Stroem
 
Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm provided Health Insurance Coverage.
Iben Bolvig, Fredrik Andersson, Julia Lane
 
Teams, Performance-Related Pay, Profit Sharing and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from a Food-Processing Plant
Antti Kauhanen, Derek Jones, Panu Kalmi
 
CEO Compensation, Firm Size and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Panel Data
Mikko Mäkinen
 
D10 - Personnel Economics 2: Experimental
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
E11 - Personnel Economics 3: Theory I
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 105
Chair: Irene Valsecchi
 
Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
Wendelin Schnedler, Guido Friebel
 
Peer Group Composition with Intrinsically Motivated Agents
Julia Nafziger
 
A Role for Instructions
Irene Valsecchi
 
F08 - Personnel Economics 4: Theory II
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
C12 - Regional Labour Markets 1: Regional Agglomeration and Social Interactions
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: IES Room: 602
Chair: Sabrina Di Addario
 
Social Interactions in Regional Labour Markets
Joerg Heining, J Lingens
 
Agglomeration Effects on Labour Demand
Oliver Ludewig, Uwe Blien, Kai Kirchhof
 
Neighborhood Effects, Public Housing and Unemployment in France
Florence Goffette-Nagot, Claire Dujardin
 
Is There an Urban Wage Premium in Italy?
Sabrina Di Addario, Eleonora Patacchini
 
D11 - Regional Labour Markets 2: Regional Equilibration, Matching and Employment
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
F09 - Regional Labour Markets 3:
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
B11 - Retirement and early exit: Retirement
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
E12 - Training 1: Evaluation of Training Effects
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location CERGE-EI Room: 8
Chair: Inge Sieben
 
Training the Unemployed in France: Impact on Unemployment Duration and Recurrence
Marc Ferracci, Bruno Crépon, Denis Fougère
 
Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany
Robert Voelter, Bernd Fitzenberger
 
Complementarity in Training Practices. Methodological notes and empirical evidence from Italy
Giovanni Guidetti, Massimiliano Mazzanti,  Susanna Mancinelli
 
Does Training Trigger Turnover... Or Not? The Impact of Formal Training on Young Men’s and Women’s Job Search Behaviour
Inge Sieben
 
F10 - Training 2: Firms' Training Decision
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
A12 - Unions, Bargaining and Conflict Resolutions 1
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
 
D12 - Unions, Bargaining and Conflict Resolutions 2
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
 
A13 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 1: Recent International Trends in Wage inequality
Friday 22 September Time 11.00 - 13.00 hours
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
B12 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 2: Job Mobility
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 hours
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
 
C13 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 3 :Intergenerational Mobility
Friday 22 September Time 17.00 - 19.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 320
Chair: Bernt Bratsberg
 
Intergenerational Income and Education Mobility in Spain
Ernesto Villanueva, Esther Kalkbrenner
 
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility : An Evaluation Using Data on Three Generations
Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy
 
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Italy
Sauro Mocetti
 
Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons
Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Markus Jäntti, Tor Eriksson, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Björklund
 
D13  - Wage Inequality and Mobility 4: Skills, Gender and Wage Inequality
Saturday 23 September Time 10.30 - 12.30 hours
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
E13  - Wage Inequality and Mobility 5: Explanations of Shifts in Wage Inequality
Saturday 23 September Time 14.00 - 16.00 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 320
Chair: Anabela Carneiro
 
Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What can we learn from the Past? A general equilibrium model approach
Javier Ferri, Concha Betran, Maria A. Pons
 
Evaluating the Effects of New Technologies on Wage Inequality
Eva Moreno Galbis, Francois Charles Wolff
 
Explaining Rising Inequality: Skill Biased Technical Change and North-South Trade
Nathalie Chusseau ,Michel Dumont ,Joël Hellier
 
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: the Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal
 
F11 - Wage Inequality and Mobility 6: Turbulence, Inflation and Wages
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
Location: CERGE-EI Room: 320
Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari
 
The Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
Melanie Ward, William Dickens, lorenz Goette, Erica Groshen, steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen
 
Permanent and Transitory Earnings Inequality in Spain, 1993-2000
Maria Cervini, Xavier Ramos
 
Earnings Instability and Tenure
Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Leonardi
 
F12 - Welfare Income Distribution and Poverty
Saturday 23 September Time 16.30 - 18.30 hours
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
 
 
B13 - Working Hours
Friday 22 September Time 14.30 - 16.30 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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