Venice Summer Institute
Workshop on

The Changing Organisation of Labour

Programme Friday, 19 July 2002
Session 1
09:15 - 09:30	Conference Opening
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote Lecture: The Employment Contract and the Organization of Labor in Europe W. BENTLEY MACLEOD
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
Session 2
10:50 - 11:40	Contracts and Inequity Aversion FLORIAN ENGLMAIER and Achim Wambach Discussant: CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG
11:40 - 12:30	Distributional Conflict in Organizations Roman Inderst, Holger M. Müller and KARL WARNERYD Discussant: STERGIOS SKAPERDAS
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 3
14:00 - 14:50	Access to Credit, Risk Taking and Organizational Change GUIDO FRIEBEL and Mariassunta Giannetti Discussant: SENGUPTA SARBAJIT
14:50 - 15:40	Taxation of a Venture Capitalist with a Portfolio of Firms CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG Discussant: CHRISTOPH LÜLFESMANN
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Session 4
16:00 - 16:50	All in the Family or Public? Law and Appropriative Costs as Determinants of Ownership Structure Ramon A. Castillo and STERGIOS SKAPERDAS Discussant: KARL WÄRNERYD
16:50 - 17:40	Social Norms and Incentives in Firms Steffen Huck, DOROTHEA KÜBLER and Jörgen Weibull Discussant: ARMIN FALK
20:00	Conference Dinner

Saturday, 20 July 2002
Session 5
09:30 - 10:20	The Decline or Expansion of Unions: A Bargaining Model with Heterogeneous Labor JON STRAND Discussant: VOLKER GROSSMANN
10:20 - 11:10	Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market Josef Falkinger and VOLKER GROSSMANN Discussant: GUIDO FRIEBEL
11:10 - 11:30	Coffee Break
Session 6
11:30 - 12:20	Delegating Recruitment under Asymmetric Information SENGUPTA SARBAJIT Discussant: FLORIAN ENGLMAIER
12:20 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:20	The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific Investments Anke S. Kessler and CHRISTOPH LÜLFESMANN Discussant: JON STRAND
14:20 - 14:40	Coffee Break
Session 7
14:40 - 15:30	The Limits and Power of Tournament Incentives ARMIN FALK Discussant: DOROTHEA KÜBLER