Area Conference on Employment
and Social Protection
CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 29-30 June 2001

PROGRAMME

Friday 29 June

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome & Introduction

Session 1

09:15 - 10:00 Do cognitive test scores explain higher US wage inequality?
LAWRENCE KAHN, Cornell University, and Francine Blau
Discussant: Andrea Ichino, European University Institute

10:00 - 10:45 Work organization, wage pressure in the secondary labor market, and the green card
JOSEF FALKINGER, University of Zurich, and Volker Grossman
Discussant: Jim Malley, University of Glasgow

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 2

11:15 - 12:00 Optimal taxation in search equilibrium with home production
BERTIL HOLMLUND, Uppsala University, Per Engström and Ann-Sofie Kolm
Discussant: Clemens Fuest, University of Munich

12:00 - 12:45 Beyond national institutions: Labor taxes and regional unemployment in Italy
GIORGIO BRUNELLO, University of Padua, Claudio Lupi, Patrizia Ordine and Maria Laura Parisi
Discussant: Louis Christofides, University of Guelph

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 3

14:00 - 14:45 Child labour, education, fertility and survival in rural India
ALESSANDRO CIGNO, University of Florence, and Furio Rosati
Discussant: Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich

14:45 - 15:30 Surviving unemployment without state support: Unemployment and household formation in South Africa
STEPHAN KLASEN, University of Munich, and Ingrid Woolard
Discussant: Alessandro Cigno, University of Florence

15:30 - 16:00 Session 4

16:00 - 16:45 Contractual incompleteness and the nature of market interactions
ARMIN FALK, University of Zurich, Martin Brown and Ernst Fehr
Discussant: Rainer Fehn, University of Würzburg

16:45 - 17:30 Setting incentives: Temporary performance premiums versus promotion tournaments
VOLKER MEIER, Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Discussant: Margarita Katsimi, Athens University of Economics and Business

17:30 - 17:45 Refreshments

17:45 - 18:30 Keynote Lecture
What can be done to reduce the high levels of youth unemployment in the world?
DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College

Saturday 30 June

Session 5

09:15 - 10:00 European integration: A race to the bottom in social standards?
TORBEN M. ANDERSEN, University of Aarhus
Discussant: Ulrich Hange, CES, University of Munich

10:00 - 10:45 The unemployment consequences of unbiased technical change: Policy responses and distributional considerations
THOMAS MOUTOS, Athens University of Economics and Business, and William Scarth
Discussant: Volker Grossman, University of Zurich

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 6

11:15 - 12:00 Nominal wage rigidity: Non-parametric tests based on union data for Canada
LOUIS CHRISTOFIDES, University of Guelph, and Thanasis Stengos
Discussant: Nils Gottfries, Uppsala University

12:00 - 12:45 Monopolistic competition, efficiency wages and perverse effects of demand shocks
JIM MALLEY, University of Glasgow, and Hassan Molana
Discussant: Laszlo Goerke, University of Konstanz

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 7

14:00 - 14:45 The effect of employment protection on worker effort: A comparison of absenteeism during and after probation
ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute, and Regina Riphahn
Discussant: Giorgio Brunello, University of Padua

14:45 - 15:30 Efficiency wages, job security and training
MARGARITA KATSIMI, Athens University of Economics and Business
Discussant: Josef Falkinger, University of Zurich

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Session 8

16:00 - 16:45 How does maximum unemployment benefit duration affect the transition rate to jobs? Accounting for policy endogeneity
JOSEF ZWEIMÜLLER, University of Zurich, and Rafael Lalive
Discussant: Bertil Holmlund, Uppsala University

16:45 - 17:30 Institutions and structural unemployment: Do capital-market imperfections matter?
RAINER FEHN, University of Würzburg, and Ansgar Belke
Discussant: Vesa Kanniainen, University of Helsinki

17:30 - 17:45 Refreshments

17:45 - 18:25 Panel Discussion
Future research on unemployment - labour economics vs. macroeconomics
Panellists: TORBEN ANDERSEN, DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, NILS GOTTFRIES and LAWRENCE KAHN

19:30 Conference Dinner

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Area Conference on Employmentand Social Protection CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 29-30 June 2001

Area Conference on Employment
and Social Protection
CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 29-30 June 2001