A CESifo and ISPE Conference

Labour Market Institutions and Public Regulation

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich

26-27 October 2001

Programme
Friday, 26 October 2001
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome & Introduction
	Flexibility of Labour Markets (Chair: Ray Rees)
09:15 - 10:30	Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain Have the Worst of Both Worlds? GILLES SAINT-PAUL Discussant: RONNIE SCHÖB
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15	Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Equilibrium Search Models James Albrecht and SUSAN VROMAN Discussant: RAY REES
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
	Unemployment and Training (Chair: Alfons Weichenrieder)
13:30 - 14:45	Growth, Unemployment, Investment, and Employment Protection Legislation: Panel Evidence for the EU-12 from 1970 to 1996 LARS FELD Discussant: MARIA HEMSTRÖM
14:45 - 16:00	Education and Efficient Redistribution COEN TEULINGS & Robert Dur Discussant: VOLKER MEIER
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
	Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Unemployment (Chair: Jonas Agell)
16:30 - 17:45	Does Active Labour Market Policy Work? Lessons from the Swedish Experiences Lars Calmfors, Anders Forslund & MARIA HEMSTRÖM Discussant: JAMES ALBRECHT
Saturday, 27 October 2001
	Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Unemployment (cont´d)
09:00 - 10:15	How Does Maximum Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Transition Rate to Jobs? Accounting for Policy Endogeneity RAFAEL LALIVE & Josef Zweimüller Discussant: MICHAEL LECHNER
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00	Labor Taxes and Wage Setting. Evidence from Italy MARIA LAURA PARISI & Giorgio Brunello Discussant: ULRICH WOITEK
12:00 - 13:15	Lunch
	Regulation and the Macroeconomy (Chair: Mick Keen)
13:15 - 14:30	Wage Bargaining Centralization and Macroeconomic Performance: an experimental approach VICENTE J. PALLARDO & Juan A. Mañez Discussant: GEORG KIRCHSTEIGER
14:30 - 15:45	Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income Thomas Moutos & WILLIAM SCARTH Discussant: MARTIN WERDING
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	On the Political Economy of Dismissal Pay LASZLO GOERKE Discussant: THOMAS MOUTOS
19:00	Dinner at the Seehaus im Englischen Garten

Labour Market Institutions and Public Regulation

Programme