Area Conference on
Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany
23 - 24 May 2008

	Programme
	Friday, 23 May Session 1 Plenary - CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates (Ludwig Erhard Room)
09:30 - 10:10	Why Do People Care about Social Status? MARI REGE
10:10 - 10:50	The Rise in Female Employment and the Role of Tax Incentives: An Emprirical Analysis of the Swedish Individual Tax Reform of 1971 HAKAN SELIN
10:50 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00	Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment IMRAN RASUL, Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo de Giorgio, Marcos A. Rangel
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:40	Social Interaction, Altruism, and Incentives at the Workplace ROBERT DUR and Joeri Sol
13:40 - 14:20	Love and Taxes and Institutions KJELL ERIK LOMMERUD and Kai A. Konrad
14:20-14:50	Coffee Break
	Session 2a Parallel - International Labour (Ludwig Erhard Room)
14:50 - 15:30	Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG and Evelyn Ribi
15:30 - 16:10	Offshoring and the Onshore Competition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills MARC-ANDREAS MUENDLER, Sascha Becker and Karolina Ekholm
	Session 2b Parallel - Education I (Richard Musgrave Room)
14:50 - 15:30	The Non-cognitive Returns to Class Size MARTIN R. WEST and Thomas S. Dee
15:30 - 16:10	Does a Generous Welfare State Crowd out Student Effort? Panel Data Evidence from International Student Tests TORBERG FALCH and Justina A. Fischer
16:10 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Session 3a Parallel - Conflict and Institutions (Ludwig Erhard Room)
16:30 - 17:10	The Paradoxes of Revenge in Conflicts J. ATSU AMEGASHIE and Marco Runkel
17:10 - 17:50	On the Causes and Consequences of Divorce ALESSANDRO BALESTRINO, Cinzia Ciardi and Claudio Mammini
	Session 3b Parallel - Labor I (Richard Musgrave Room)
16:30 - 17:10	The Elasticity of Labor demand and the Minimum Wage LEIF DANZIGER
17:10 - 17:50	Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Labor Taxation under both Unionized and Competitive Domestic Labor markets ERKKI KOSKELA and Panu Poutvaara
19:30	Conference Dinner at "Seehaus im Englischen Garten"
	Saturday, 24 May Session 4 Plenary (Ludwig Erhard Room)
09:00 - 09:40	Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany HELGE BERGER and Michael Neugart
09:40 - 10:20	Total Work, Gender and Social Norms MICHAEL BURDA, Daniel S. Hamermesh and Philippe Weil
10:20 - 11:00	Unemployment Insurance and Taxation: Incentives vs. Insurance TORBEN ANDERSEN
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee break

11:20 - 12:20	Keynote Lecture: Equality Magnified - Welfare Generosity and Wage Compression in OECD Countries KARL O. MOENE
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch
	Session 5a Parallel - Unemployment Benefits (Ludwig Erhard Room)
13:20 - 14:00	On the Optimal Shape of UI Benefits TOMER BLUMKIN and Efraim Sadka
14:00 - 14:40	The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labor Market Programme for Dismissed Workers UGO TRIVELLATO, Adriano Paggiaro and Enrico Rettore
	Session 5b Parallel - Intertemporal Social Issue (Richard Musgrave Room)
13:20 - 14:00	Returning Home to Go to School? Emigration and Return Migration of Families with Children PANU POUTVAARA, Martin Junge, Martin D. Mjunk and Svend T. Jespersen
14:00 - 14:40	Designs for First-pillar Pensions and the 2008 Chilean Reform SALVADOR VALDES PRIETO
14:40 - 15:10	Coffee break

	Session 6a Parallel - Charity and Social Interaction (Ludwig Erhard Room)
15:10 - 15:50	On Time and Money Donations LORENZO CAPPELLARI, Paolo Ghinetti and Gilberto Turanti
15:50 - 16:30	Behavior under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias MIKAEL PRIKS and Per Pettersson-Lindbom
	Session 6b Parallel - Education II (Richard Musgrave Room)
15:10 - 15:50	Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia Sascha Becker and LUDGER WOESSMANN
15:50 - 16:30	Female Education and Employment: a Waste of Talent ALESSANDRO CASARICO and Paola Profeta

Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany 23 - 24 May 2008

Programme

Area Conference on
Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany
23 - 24 May 2008