Past Conferences

	Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 15-16 May 2009 Programme

	Friday, 15 May 2009
09:20 – 09:30	Welcome and Introduction
	Session I Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
09:30 – 10:10	The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers´ Return to Work CHRISTINA FELFE
10:10 – 10:50	Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies CONNY WUNSCH
10:50 – 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:00	*"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut* Shaped U.S. Childbearing** MARTHA J. BAILEY
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
	Keynote Lecture
13:00 – 14:00	Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men KJELL SALVANES
14:00 – 14:30	Coffee Break
	Session 2a Parallel Session – Labour I (Ludwig Erhard Room)
14:30 – 15:10	Dissatisfied with Life, But Having a Good Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of Unemployed ANDREAS KNABE, Ronnie Schöb, Steffen Rätzel, Joachim Weimann
15:10 – 15:50	Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity under Labour Market Imperfections ERKKI KOSKELA and Rune Stenbacka
	Session 2b Parallel Session – Social Security I (Richard Musgrave Room)
14:30 – 15:10	Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK DAN ANDERBERG, Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth
15:10 – 15:50	The 2008 Chilean Reform to First-Pillar Pensions SALVADOR VALDÉS-PRIETO
15:50 – 16:20	Coffee Break
	Session 3a Parallel Session – Labor II (Ludwig Erhard Room)
16:20 – 17:00	Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms LEIF DANZIGER
17:00 – 17:40	Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies JUKKA PIRTTILÄ, Kristiina Huttunen, Roope Uusitalo
	Session 3b Parallel Session – Social Security II (Richard Musgrave Room)
16:20 – 17:00	Do Surveillance Cameras Affect Unruly Behavior? A Close Look at Grandstands MIKAEL PRIKS
17:00 – 17:40	Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross- European Analysis FRANCESCO CINNIRELLA and Joachim Winter
19:30	Conference Dinner at the Seehaus im Englischen Garten

	Saturday, 16 May 2009
	Session 4 Incentives I
9:40 – 10:20	Incomplete Property Rights and Overinvestment J. ATSU AMEGASHIE
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30	Incentive Contracts and Efficient Unemployment Benefits DOMINIQUEDEMOUGIN and Carsten Helm
11:30 – 12:10	Should Old-Age Benefits be Earnings-Tested? PANU POUTVAARA and Niku Määttänen
12:10 – 13:30	Lunch
	Session 5 Inequality and Redistribution
13:30 – 14:10	The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU CLEMENS FUEST, Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl
14:10 – 14:50	Do Unwarranted Wage Increases Reduce the Return on Capital? MARGARITA KATSIMI, Sarantis Kalyvitis and Thomas Moutos
14:50 – 15:30	Does the Colour of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes GUIDO SCHWERDT, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
	Session 6 Social Policy
16:00 – 16:40	What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms VINCENZO GALASSO and Francesco C. Billari
16:40 – 17:20	Labor Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care ALESSANDRA CASARICO and Alessandro Sommacal
	END OF CONFERENCE

Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 15-16 May 2009

Programme

Friday, 15 May 2009

Session I Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates

Keynote Lecture

Session 2a Parallel Session – Labour I (Ludwig Erhard Room)

Session 2b Parallel Session – Social Security I (Richard Musgrave Room)

Session 3a Parallel Session – Labor II (Ludwig Erhard Room)

Session 3b Parallel Session – Social Security II (Richard Musgrave Room)

Saturday, 16 May 2009

Session 4 Incentives I

Session 5 Inequality and Redistribution

Session 6 Social Policy

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
15-16 May 2009

Session I
Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates

Session 2a
Parallel Session – Labour I
(Ludwig Erhard Room)

Session 2b
Parallel Session – Social Security I
(Richard Musgrave Room)

Session 3a
Parallel Session – Labor II
(Ludwig Erhard Room)

Session 3b
Parallel Session – Social Security II
(Richard Musgrave Room)

Session 4
Incentives I

Session 5
Inequality and Redistribution

Session 6
Social Policy