Hyatt Regency Chicago in Illinois Center, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 6060, USA
Schedule of the Meetings
Friday, May 3, 1996
8:00 - 8:30 : Opening comments and introduction of President Gary Becker: Edward Lazear
Workshop on Personnel Economics: Chair: George Baker, Harvard University
8:30-9:30: Tor Eriksson, Aarhus School of Business: “Executive Compensation and Tournament Theory: Empirical Tests on Danish Data” Discussant: Canice Prendergast, GSB University of Chicago
9:45-10:45: James R. Rebitzer, Sloan School, M.I.T. “Sharing Rules: An Empirical Examination of Equity and Incentives in Pay Systems” (with Martin Gaynor) Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod, Boston College
11:00-noon: Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, University of California, Berkeley “Intrafirm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance” (with Josef Zweimüller) Discussant: George Baker Harvard University
Workshop on Models of Unemployment and Labor Mobility: Chair: George R. Neumann
8:30-9:30: Charles R. Pierret, U.S. Department of Labor: “Two-Sided Search, Market Segmentation, and Assortative Matching” Discussant: Coen N. Teulings
9:45-10:45: Simon Burgess, University of Bristol: “Job Flows and Worker Flows: Issues and Evidence from a Panel of Firms” (with Julia Lane and David Stevens) Discussant: George Neumann
11:00-noon: Jules Theeuwes, University of Leiden: “Mobility and the Older Worker: A Substitution of Routes” (with Marcel Kerkhofs and Isolde Woittiez) Discussant: Robert Tamura , University of Iowa
Workshop on Labor Supply, Wages, and Employment Decisions I: Chair: Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago
9:45-10:45: Janice F. Madden, University of Pennsylvania: “Explaining the Distribution of Income within Metropolitan Areas” Discussant: Brigitte Madrian, GSB University of Chicago
11:00-noon: Theresa J. Devine, American Bar Foundation: “Married Female Self-Employment and Schedule Flexibility: Evidence for the United States from SIPP” Discussant: Robert H. Topel
Workshop on Unemployment Compensation and Unemployment Effects: Chair: Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University
1:30-2:30: Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas: “Multilevel General Equilibrium Policy-making: Evidence from the American Unemployment Insurance Tax Ceiling” (with David Scoones): Discussant: Donald O. Parsons, Ohio State University
2:45-3:45: James W. Albrecht, Georgetown University, “Unemployment Compensation Finance and Efficiency Wages” (with Susan Vroman) Discussant: Dale Mortensen
4:00-5:00: Donal O’Neill, Maynooth College: “Unemployment and the Restart Effect: Some Experimental Evidence” (with Peter Dolton)
Workshop on Family and Gender Issues: Chair: Kevin M. Murphy, University of Chicago
1:30-2:30: Linda N. Edwards, City University of New York: “Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force Decisions” (with Elizabeth Field-Hendrey) Discussant: Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, San Diego State University
2:45-3:45: Janet Currie, UCLA “A Head Start for Latino Children: What Are the Benefits?” (with Duncan Thomas) Discussant: Jeffrey S. Zax, University of Colorado
4:00-5:00: Christopher J. Ruhm, University of North Carolina: “The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe” Discussant: Kevin M. Murphy
Workshop on Labor Supply and Employment Decisions II: Chair: Joe Altonji, Northwestern University
1:30-2:30: Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University, “A Little or a Lot: Self-Employment and Hours of Work” Discussant: Joseph Altonji, Northwestern University
2:45-3:45: Thomas A. Dunn, Syracuse University, “Capital Market Constraints, Parental Wealth, and the Transition to Self-Employment among Men and Women” (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin), Discussant: William J. Carrington, The Johns Hopkins University
4:00-5:00: Ian Walker, Keele University: “Labour Supply, Unemployment, and Participation in In-Work Transfer Programmes” (with Paul Bingley) Discussant: Paul Carlin, I.U.P.U.I.
Saturday, May 4, 1996
8:00-8:30: Jason L. Ford, Bureau of Labor Statistics: “COMP2000: A New Source of Data for Labor Economics”
Workshop on Labor Supply: Chair, James Heckman
8:30-9:30: Thomas J. Kniesner, Indiana University: “The Intertemporal Substitution Hypothesis Is Alive and Well (But Hiding in the Data)” (with Jean Kimmel) Discussant: Gillian Hutchinson, QMW
9:45-10:45: Maarten Lindeboom, Leiden University: “Time Patterns of Work and Sickness Absence: Unobserved Workplace Effects in a Multistate Duration Model” (with Marcel Kerkhofs), Discussant: James Heckman, University of Chicago
11:00-noon: Debora Moolenaar, University of Leiden, “Temporarily Otherwise Engaged: An Analysis of Wage-Hours Trade-Offs in the Supply of Temporary Work” Discussant: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
Workshop on Wages and Discrimination: Chair: Robert Hutchens, Cornell University
8:30-9:30: Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston: “Education, Skills, and Cohort Quality” (with Kim and Vella), Discussant: Robert Hutchens
9:45-10:45: Dominic Brewer, RAND and Eric Eide “Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?” (with Ron Ehrenberg) Discussant: Kathryn Ierulli University of Illinois at Chicago
11:00-noon: James P. Ziliak, University of Oregon “Wages, Race, and the Return to Schooling over the Business Cycle” (with Beth A. Wilson and Larry D. Singell, Jr.) Discussant: Audra J. Bowlus, University of Western Ontario
Workshop on Unions, Markets, and Search: Chair: Robert Flanagan
8:30-9:30 Brian D. Bell, Nuffield College, “Trade Union Decline and the Distribution of Wages in the UK: Evidence from Kernel Density Estimation” (with Michael Pitt) Discussant: Robert Flanagan, Stanford University
9:45-10:45 Anne E. Polivka, Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Are Temporary Help Agency Workers Substitutes for Direct Hire Temps? Searching for an Alternative Explanation of Growth in the Temporary Help Industry” Discussant: Lori Kletzer, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:00-noon: Gerard J. Van den Berg, Free University of Amsterdam: “Equilibrium Search with a Continuous Distribution of Productivities: Theory and Estimation” (with Christian Bontemps and Jean-Marc Robin) Discussant: Jon Strand, University of Oslo
Speaker: Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, BLS, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Workshop on Discrimination
1:30-2:30: Steven J. Trejo, University of California Santa Barbara, “Why Do Mexican Americans Earn Low Wages?” Discussant: Wallace Hendricks, University of Illinois
2:45-3:45: Derek Neal, University of Chicago: “The Role of Pre-Market Factors in Black-White Wage Differences” Discussant: Barry R. Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago
Workshop on Retirement: Chair: David Wise, Harvard University
1:30-2:30: Vincent Thio, Leiden University: “An Equilibrium Approach to the Timing of Retirement” (with Isolde Woittiez) Discussant: David Wise
2:45-3:45: Kenneth R. Troske, U.S. Bureau of the Census: “Technology and Jobs: Secular Changes and Cyclical Dynamics” (with Timothy Dunne and John Haltiwanger) Discussant: Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:00-5:00: Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto: “Selling New Knowledge and the Organization of Academia” Discussant: Randall Filer, Hunter College