CESifo Area Conferences

Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany

11-12 June 2004

	Programme
	Friday, 11 June 2004

09:15 - 09:20	Welcome & Introduction
	Plenary Session 1
09:20 - 10:20	Human Capital, Labor Market Institutions and Equilibrium Unemployment MICHAEL BURDA Discussant: Nils Gottfries
10:20 - 11:20	Does Unemployment Make you Sick? Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive and JOSEF ZWEIMULLER Discussant: Mats Persson
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
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Keynote Lecture: Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment STEVE PISCHKE, London School of Economics
	Parallel Session 1
15:00 - 16:00	Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK GIORGIO BRUNELLO and Francesca Gambarotto Discussant: Ludger Woessmann
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
	Parallel Session 2
15:00 - 16:00	Optimal Incentive Contracts when Workers Envy their Boss ROBERT DUR and Amihai Glazer Discussant: Dan Anderberg
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30	Egalitarian Wage Schedules in Small Firms and Co-operatives - Rent Seeking at Work MIKAEL PRIKS Discussant: Robert Dur

	Saturday, 12 June 2004
	Plenary Session 2
09:20 - 10:20	Union Strategy and Optimal Direct Taxation Sebastian Kessing and KAI KONRAD Discussant: Tim Lohse
10:20 - 11:20	Crime and Unemployment and Labor Market Programs in Turbulent Times Anna Nilsson and JONAS AGELL Discussant: Torben Tranaes
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
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
	Parallel Session 3
14:00 - 15:00	Getting Hitched: The Equilibrium Marriage Market Behaviour of a British Cohort DAN ANDERBERG Discussant: Giorgio Brunello
15:00 - 16:00	Tax Progression and Efficiency Wages Erkki Koskela and RONNIE SCHÖB Discussant: Dirk Bergemann
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30	Equilibrium Wage Systems with Moral Hazard and Monitoring Costs JON STRAND Discussant: Jonas Agell
	Parallel Session 4
14:00 - 15:00	Pareto-Improving Pension Reform when Some are Altruistic ALFONS WEICHENRIEDER Discussant: Friedrich Breyer
15:00 - 16:00	Time Limits on Welfare Use under Involuntary Unemployment Christian Holzner, Volker Meier and MARTIN WERDING Discussant: Alessandra Casarico
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
19:00	Conference Dinner

Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany

Programme