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Programme |
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Friday,
11 June 2004
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| 09:15 - 09:20 |
Welcome & Introduction |
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| Plenary Session 1 |
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| 09:20 - 10:20 | Human Capital, Labor Market Institutions and Equilibrium Unemployment
MICHAEL BURDA Discussant: Nils Gottfries |
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| 10:20 - 11:20 | Does Unemployment Make you Sick?
Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive and JOSEF ZWEIMULLER Discussant: Mats Persson  |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:50 | Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, Prices, and Growth Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and DENNIS SNOWER Discussant: Kjell Erik Lommerud |
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| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote Lecture: Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment STEVE PISCHKE, London School of Economics
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| 15:00 - 16:00 | Agglomeration
Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK GIORGIO BRUNELLO and Francesca Gambarotto Discussant: Ludger Woessmann
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Transitions between Unemployment and Low Pay LORENZO CAPPELLARI and Stephen P. Jenkins Discussant: Sascha Becker |
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| 15:00 - 16:00 | Optimal
Incentive Contracts when Workers Envy their Boss ROBERT DUR and Amihai Glazer Discussant: Dan Anderberg
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
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Egalitarian Wage Schedules in Small Firms and Co-operatives - Rent Seeking
at Work MIKAEL PRIKS Discussant: Robert Dur
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Saturday,
12 June 2004
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| 09:20 - 10:20 | Union Strategy and Optimal Direct Taxation Sebastian Kessing and KAI KONRAD Discussant: Tim Lohse
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| 10:20 - 11:20 | Crime and Unemployment and Labor Market Programs in Turbulent Times Anna Nilsson and JONAS AGELL Discussant: Torben Tranaes
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| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:50 | How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States LUDGER WOESSMANN Discussant: Francesca Fabbri
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| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | Getting Hitched: The Equilibrium Marriage Market Behaviour of a British Cohort DAN ANDERBERG Discussant: Giorgio Brunello
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| 15:00 - 16:00 | Tax Progression and Efficiency Wages Erkki Koskela and RONNIE SCHÖB Discussant: Dirk Bergemann |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
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Equilibrium Wage Systems with Moral Hazard and Monitoring Costs JON STRAND Discussant: Jonas Agell
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | Pareto-Improving Pension Reform when Some are Altruistic ALFONS WEICHENRIEDER Discussant: Friedrich Breyer |
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| 15:00 - 16:00 | Time Limits on Welfare Use under Involuntary Unemployment Christian Holzner, Volker Meier and MARTIN WERDING Discussant: Alessandra Casarico
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Optimal Tax-Transfer-Schemes under Partial Information STEFAN HOMBURG and Tim Lohse Discussant: Erkki Koskela |
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| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |