Ammersee, 14-18 September 1999. Hosted by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Final Programme

Tuesday 14 September:

09.30 - 11.30  

1. Morning Session I  
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes 

James Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA)

12.30

Lunch

15.30 - 17.00

2. Parallel Session A 
Chair: Lars Ljungqvist

Wages, Experience and Seniority 

Christian Dustmann (Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, CEPR and IZA)

Costas Meghir (Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, CEPR and IZA) 

17.00 - 18.30 

Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Jörgen Hansen (IZA, Bonn) 

Christian Belzil (Concordia University and IZA) 

15.30 - 17.00 

3. Parallel Session B  
Chair: Gerard Pfann

Does Shorter Schooling Hurt Student Performance and Earnings? 

Jörn-Steffen Pischke (MIT, CEPR and IZA) 

17.00 - 18.30 

Transitions from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration 

Espen Bratberg (University of Bergen) 

Øivind Anti Nilsen (University of Bergen and IZA) 

19.00

Dinner 

20.00 - 21.30 

4. Parallel Session C 
Chair: Pietro Garibaldi

The Evolution of Earnings Inequality in Italy and the Escalator Cause

Marco Manacorda (Centre for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley)

20.00 - 21.30

5. Parallel Session D  
Chair: Gil Epstein

Immigrant Labor and Workplace Safety

Thomas Bauer (IZA, Bonn and CEPR)

Andreas Million (University of Munich)

Ralph Rotte (University of Munich and IZA)

Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA,  Bonn University and CEPR)

Wednesday 15 September:

 9.30 - 11.30

6. Morning Session II
Chair: Juan J. Dolado

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World

David Wise (NBER and Harvard University)

12.30

Lunch

15.30 - 17.00

7. Parallel Session A
Chair: Michael Burda

How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR and IZA)

17.00 - 18.30

Modelling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed into Work

Jan Boone (CentER, Tilburg University and CPB)

Jan van Ours (CentER, Tilburg University, CEPR and IZA)

15.30 - 17.00

8. Parallel Session B
Chair: Barbara Petrongolo

On the Neutrality of Severance Payments in the Theory of Search Unemployment 

Pietro Garibaldi (International Monetary Fund and CEPR)

Gianluca Violante (University College London and CEPR)

17.00 - 18.30

Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc (University of Paris I, CEPREMAP, CREST-INSEE, Institut Universitaire de France and IZA)

André Zylerberg (CNRS and University of Paris I)

19.00

Dinner

20.00 - 21.30

9. Parallel Session C
Chair: Marco Francesconi

General Training and Human-Capital Externalities

Alison Booth (University of Essex, CEPR and IZA)

20.00 - 21.30

10. Parallel Session D
Chair: Javier Ortega 

The Endogenous Determination of the Minimum Wage

Gil Epstein (Bar-Ilan University, CEPR and IZA)

Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University)

Thursday 16 September:

9.30 - 11.30

11. Morning Session III
Chair: Costas Meghir

The Payoff to Education

Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University and IZA)

12.30

Lunch

PM

TRIP TO CASTLE

19.00

Dinner

20.00 - 21.30

12. Parallel Session C
Chair: Pietro Garibaldi

Screening vs. Training in General Equilibrium Search Models

Etienne Wasmer (ECARE, University of Bruxelles, CEPR and IZA)

20.00 - 21.30

13. Parallel Session D
Chair: Christian Dustmann

Corporate Downsizing and Efficient Quitting

Gerard Pfann (Maastricht University, CEPR and IZA)

Friday 17 September:

09.30 - 11.30

14. Morning Session IV
Chair: Alison Booth

The Future of Personnel Economics

Edward Lazear (Stanford University)

12.30

Lunch

15.30 - 17.00

15. Parallel Session A 
Chair: Jennifer Hunt

Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

John Haisken-DeNew (DIW, Berlin and IZA)

Christoph M. Schmidt (University of Heidelberg, CEPR and IZA)

17.00 - 18.30

Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Magnus Lofstrom (IZA, Bonn)

15.30 - 17.00

16. Parallel Session B
Chair: Thomas Bauer

Group Interactions and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Bank

Andrea Ichino (European University Institute, Florence, IGIER, CEPR and IZA)

Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University and NBER)

17.00 - 18.30

Absenteeism and Employment Probation

Regina Riphahn (University of Munich, CEPR and IZA)

Anja Thalmaier (IZA, Bonn)

19.00

Dinner

20.00 - 21.30

17. Parallel Session C
Chair: Jörn-Steffen Pischke

Employment and the Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time

Ramon Marimon (European University Institute, Florence, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, NBER and CEPR)

Fabrizio Zilibotti (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and CEPR)

20.00 - 21.30

18. Parallel Session D
Chair: Jan van Ours

Re-employment Probabilities and Returns to Matching

Barbara Petrongolo (University Carlos III, Madrid, London School of Economics and CEPR)

Saturday 18 September:

09.30 - 11.30

Morning Session 
Chair: Zvi Eckstein

The Evolution of Labour Markets in Transitional Economies

Jan Svejnar (WDI, University of Michigan, CERGE-EI, Prague and CEPR)

12.30

Lunch

15.30 - 17.00

19. Parallel Session A
Chair: John Haisken-DeNew

Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Jennifer Hunt (Yale University, CEPR and IZA)

17.00 - 18.30

Estimating Wage Losses of Displaced Workers in Germany

Michael Burda (Humboldt-University, Berlin, CEPR and IZA)

Antje Mertens (Max Planck Institute and Humboldt-University, Berlin)

15.30 - 17.00

20. Parallel Session B
Chair: Oivind Anti Nilsen 

Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime

Steven Raphael (University of California)

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz, Vienna Institute for Economic Policy Research, CEPR and IZA)

17.00 - 18.30

Demand Uncertainty, Mismatch and (Un)Employment - A Microeconomic Approach

Mohamed Jellal (CES, University of Rabat)

Jacques-François Thisse (CORE, University Catholique de Louvain, CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and CEPR)

Yves Zenou (CERAS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, GAINS, University of Maine, CEPR and IZA)

Organizers:

Juan J. Dolado (University Carlos III, Madrid, CEPR and IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, Bonn University and CEPR)

Participation by invitation only - Teilnahme nur mit Einladung.