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SOLE/EALE 2005
Friday, 3 June 2005
CONTACT AUTHORS DIRECTLY FOR PAPERS
7:00-8:30
Buffet Breakfast, Grand Ballroom
9:00-10:00
Albert Rees Lecture, Grand Ballroom
Chairs: John Pencavel, SOLE President; Bertil Holmlund, EALE President
Lecture:“What Is Human Capital?”
Janet Currie, UCLA
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break, Grand Ballroom
Morning Sessions:
A: 10:30-12:30 a.m. 1. Unemployment -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: David Card, University of California, Berkeley
Justin Wolfers: Measuring the Effects of Unemployment Protection on Job Flows: Evidence from Seasonal Cycles
Kenneth A. Couch and Robert Fairlie: Last Hired, First Fired? The Dynamics of Black-White Unemployment over the Business Cycle
Wouter Vermeulen and Jos Van Ommeren: Are Workers Compensated by Cheaper Housing in Regions Where Unemployment Is High? Theory and Evidence from a Housing Demand Survey
Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, and Vincenzo Galasso: Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff Between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
Ioana Marinescu: Are Judges Sensitive to Economic Conditions? Evidence from UK Employment Tribunals
2. Fertility -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: Robert Willis, University of Michigan
Raquel Fernandez and Alessandra Fogli: Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility
Kenneth R. Troske and Alexandru Voicu: Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions using Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques
Kasey Buckles: Stopping the Biological Clock: Fertility Therapies and the Career-Family Tradeoff
Marianne Bitler: Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant Health Outcomes: Evidence from Insurance Mandates
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz and Joost Laat: Working Women, Husband’s Home Time, and Low Fertility in Europe
3. Labor Market Programs I -- California Room
Chair/Discussant: Claudio Lucifora, Università Cattolica, Milano
Sheena McConnell, Irma Perez-Johnson, and Paul Decker: The Effects of Training Vouchers: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment
Boris Augurzky and Jochen Kluve: Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong
Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari, and Claudio Lucifora: Do Job Security Guarantees Work?
Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer, and Stephan L. Thomsen: The Employment Effect of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Microeconometric Evaluation
Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, and Juliet Pouget:
Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on their Transition to Permanent Jobs
4. Labor Supply I -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Robert Breunig, Australian National University
Wei Chi, Richard Freeman and Morris Kleiner: Does Voluntary Job Changing Improve Work Satisfaction?
José M. Varejão: Worksharing Revisited: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
Anja Heinze, Miriam Beblo, and Elke Wolf: Who Gains from Work Time Flexibility? A Matching Approach to the Wage Effects of Work Time Accounts
Silke Anger: Overtime Work as a Signaling Device for Productivity
Xiaodong Gong, Deborah Cobb-Clark, and Bob Breunig: Impacts of Financial Hardship on Family Labor Supply in Australia
5. Education & Opportunities I -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Steve Machin, University College London
Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich Ursprung, and Ludger Wössmann: Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber: Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
Sherrilyn M. Billger: Reconstructing School Segregation: the Impact of Single-Sex Schooling on Labor Market Outcomes
Martin Söderström and Roope Uusitalo: School Choice and Segregation: Evidence from an Admission Reform
Andreas Ammermüller: Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions: An International Comparison
6. Gender I -- International Room
Chair/Discussant: Heather Antecol, Claremont McKenna College
Paul Latreille, Melanie K. Jones, Peter J. Sloane: Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
Gerrit Müller and Erik Plug: Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjögren: The Survival and Growth of Establishments: Does Gender Segregation Matter?
Melissa Ruby Banzhaf: Structural Differences in Job Turnover and Wage Growth by Sex and Education
Catherine Weinberger and Peter Kuhn: New Evidence on Cohort vs. Experience Effects on Women’s Wages
7. Training, Human Capital, and Growth I -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant: Maria De Paola, University of Calabria
Audra Bowlus and Chris Robinson: The Contribution of Post-secondary Education to Human Capital Stocks in Canada and the U.S.
Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro: On-the-Job Training: Estimating Costs and Returns Using Firm Level Data
Elke Amend and Patrick Herbst: Human Capital Formation under Product Market Uncertainty
Luc Behaghel and Nathalie Greenan: Training and Age-biased Technical Change: Evidence from French Micro Data
Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola: Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy
8. Educational Choice -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant:
Tuomas Pekkarinen , Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Christopher Jepsen, Mark Montgomery, and Larry Buron: Earnings History and the Schooling Decisions of Older Workers
David M. Lang: Financial Aid, Income, and the Choice of College Curriculum: Is Economics a Giffen Good?
Magnus Lofstrom and John Tyler: Does the GED Increase Postsecondary Educational Attainment?
Helena Skyt Nielsen and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen: The Impact of Labor Income Risk on Educational Choices: Estimates and Implied Risk Aversion
Tuomas Pekkarinen: Gender Differences in Secondary Education Choices: Does the Age at Which You Decide Matter?
9. Wage Structure -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Thierry Kamionka, Magali Beffy, Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougère, and Francis Kramarz: The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why They Are Lower than in the United States)
Erling Barth, Claudio Lucifora, and
Panagiotis (Panos) Tsakloglou: Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions. The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure
Jenny De Freitas Fernandes: Inequality, the Politics of Redistribution, and the Tax-Mix
Sourushe Zandvakili, David Gray, and Jeffrey Mills: Immigration, Assimilation and Inequality of Income Distribution in Canada
10. Mobility I -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elda Pema: Do Local Fiscal Policies Affect the Migration of Human Capital?
Eren Selcuk: Migration of Households in the United States
Michele Belot and Sjef Ederveen: Cultural and Institutional Barriers in Migration OECD Countries
Melanie Arntz: The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers. Evidence from West Germany
Uwe Sunde and René Fahr: Spatial Mobility and Competition for Jobs: Some Theory and Evidence for Western Germany
11. The Workplace I -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant: Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University
Michael R. Pergamit: Work Schedules and Work Injuries
Andreas Roider and Gerd Muehlheusser: Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
Mehmet Bac: Why Are Whistleblowers Fired?
Wolter Hassink and Pierre Koning: Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery
Benoit Dostie and Georges Dionne: New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
12. Careers -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Stephen Bronars, University of Texas
Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern, and Phillippe Raab: An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Eloic Peyrache and Alexander Koch: Aligning Ambition and Incentives: Optimal Contracts with Career Concerns
Elena Pastorino: Career Dynamics under Uncertainty: Estimating the Value of Firm Experimentation
Ana Rute Cardoso: Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is it Worth Having a Degree?
Mareva Sabatier and Myriam Carrère: Do Female Researchers Face a Glass Ceiling in France? A Hazard Model of Promotions
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch, Grand Ballroom
Afternoon Sessions
B: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
1. Contracts & Bargaining -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
Christian Haefke and Monique Bell: The Missing Link: Product Market Regulation, Collective Bargaining and the European Unemployment Puzzle
John Kennan: Private Information: Wage Bargaining, and Employment Fluctuations
Michael Burda and Tito Boeri: Preferences for Rigid Versus Individualized Wage Setting
Michael Rusinek, Robert Plasman, and François Rycx:
How do company
collective agreements affect wages? Evidence from four corporatist
countries
Laura Pagani and Carlo Dell’aringa: Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion
2. Vouchers & School Choice -- California Room
Chair/Discussant: To Be Announced
Eric A. Hanushek, Gregory Branch, John F. Kain, and Steven G. Rivkin: The Impact of Charter Schools on Academic Achievement
Rajashri Chakrabarti: Impact of Voucher Design on Public School Performance: Evidence from Florida and Milwaukee Voucher Programs
Randall Reback: The Supply and Demand for Public School Choice
Larry D. Singell, Jr., Glen R. Waddell, and Bradley R. Curs:
Hope for the Pell? Institutional effects in the intersection of merit-based and need-based aid
3. Labor Demand & Technological Change -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: David Autor, MIT
Kristin Sandusky, John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, and Kevin McKinney: The Impact of Changing Technology on the Demand for Older Workers
Robert D. Mohr, Peter B. Meyer and Cindy Zoghi: Workplace Practices and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Establishment Data
Ethan Lewis: The Effect of Local Skill Mix on New Technology Adoption in Manufacturing
Peter B. Meyer: Technology Change and Inequality within Occupations
Niels Westergård-Nielsen and Rikke Ibsen: Job Creation and Destruction over the Business Cycles and the Impact on Individual Job Flows
4. Promotions -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University
Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, Matthew Freedman, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane: Who Rewards High-Tech Stars?
Jed Devaro and Michael Waldman: The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence
Pablo Acosta: Promotions, State Dependence and Intrafirm Job Mobility: Insiders vs New Hires
Thomas Dohmen: Promotions, Demotions and Corporate Employment Growth
5. Family -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Yoram Weiss, Tel Aviv University
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller: Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Esther Redmount: Child Labor and Household Decision-making
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel: The Importance of Nonwage Benefits in the Motherhood Wage Gap
Jeffrey J. Yankow and Mary Jean Horney: Employed Job Search among Young Women: The Role of Marriage and Children
Irina Paley:
Right Place, Right Time: Parental Employment Schedules and the Allocation of Time to Children
6. Macroeconomics of Unemployment I -- International Room
Chair/Discussant:
Harald Dale-Olsen , Institute for Social Research
Kamil Galuscak and Daniel Munich: Structural and Cyclical Unemployment: What Can We Derive from the Matching Function?
Michael Krause and Thomas A. Lubik: On-the-job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market
Harald Dale-Olsen: Worker Turnover, Capital Dispersion and Matching
Sabrina Di Addario: Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy
7. Mobility II -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant: Linda Bell, Haverford College
Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn: Job Mobility in Europe, Japan, and the U.S.
Christina Gathmann and Uta Schoenberg: Job Mobility Within and Between Firms and the Choice of Labor Market Careers: Evidence from Germany
Jonathan Portes and Simon French: The Impact of Free Movement of Workers from Central and Eastern Europe on the Uk Labour Market: Early Evidence
Mariola Pytlikova:
Where Did Central- and Eastern-European Emigrants Go and Why?
Oded Stark, Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova, and Silke Übelmesser: The New Economics of the Brain Drain: Mapping the Gains
8. Labor Market Programs II -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: Stepan Jurajda, CERGE-EI, Prague
Andrea Weber: Evaluating the Impact of Different Program Assignment Rules
Helen Connolly: Are Low-Educated Workers Disproportionately Affected by a Change in Minimum Wage?
Giacomo De Giorgi: Long-Term Effects of a Mandatory Multistage Program: The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) in the U.K.
Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser, and Annette Bergmann: Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Difference
Christian Göbel and Bart Cockx: Subsidized Employment for Young Long-term Unemployed Workers: An Evaluation
9. Health Insurance -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Maarten Lindeboom, Free University Amsterdam
John C. Ham, Serkan Ozbelik, and Lara Shore-Sheppard: Estimating the Effects of Policy Changes on Participation in Medicaid
Cynthia Bansak and Steven Raphael: The Effects of Public Health Insurance on Job Lock: A Study of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Carlos Dobkin, David Card, and Nicole Maestas: The Impact of Health Insurance Status on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes
Emily Y. Lin and Peter Brady: Explaining Trends in Employment-Based Health Insurance and Pension Benefits: Accessibility and Participation, 1987-2001
Monica Galizzi and Jay Zagorsky: How do on-the-job injuries and illness impact wealth?
10. Consumption -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
David Blau: Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model
Kristin J. Kleinjans and Jinkook Lee: The Link between Individual Expectations and Savings
Manuela Angelucci, Orazio P. Attanasio, and Jonathan Shaw: The Effect of Oportunidades on the Level and Composition of Consumption in Urban Areas
Mary C. Daly and Daniel Wilson: Keeping Up with the Joneses and Staying Ahead of the Smiths: Evidence from Suicide Data
Mark Bryan: Paid Holidays
11. Technical Changes & Layoffs -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant: Audra Bowlus, University of Western Ontario
Eva Moreno-Galbis and Philippe Askenazy: The Impact of Technological and Organizational Changes on Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
Simona Lup Tick and Ronald L. Oaxaca: Technological Change and Gender Wage Differentials, Estimates for U.S. Industries: 1979-2001
Linda Yuet-yee Wong: Gender Wage Gap and Technical Change
Mário Centeno and Francisco Lima: The Long-term Impact on Wages of a Mass Displacement Event
Lars Vilhuber, John M. Abowd, and Kevin L. Mckinney: The Link Between Human Capital Flows Due to Mass Layoffs and Firm Deaths
12. Mobility & Inequality -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Marianne Page, University of California, Davis
Sarah Brown, John Sessions, and Karl Taylor: What Will I Be When I Grow Up? An Analysis of Childhood Expectations and Career Outcomes
Falilou Fall: Endogenous Persistent Inequality
Aimee Chin and Hoyt Bleakley: What Holds Back the Second Generation? The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital among Immigrants
Takashi Yamashita: Generational Aspects of the Great Compression: a Cohort Analysis
Marten Palme and Sofia Sandgren: Parental Income, Lifetime Income and Mortality
4:00-4:30
Coffee Break, Mezzanine Foyer/Tonga
Afternoon Sessions, 2
C: 4:30-6:30 p.m. 1. The Workplace II -- California Room
Chair/Discussant: Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
Richard Freeman and Alex Bryson: The Voice Workers Want and What They Get in the US and the UK
Walter Y. Oi: Effort, Firm Size, and Productivity
Thomas Zwick: The Effects of Shop-floor Participation vs. Work Councils
Takao Kato and Derek C. Jones: The Effects of Employee Involvement on Firm Performance: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study
Marie-Claire Villeval and David Masclet: Is Peer Pressure in Teams Motivated by Inequality Aversion?
Jeroen Van de Ven and Anton Suvorov: Discretionary Bonuses as a Feedback Mechanism
2. Race -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: Finis Welch, Unicon Research Corporation
Jesse Rothstein and David Card: Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Heather Antecol and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark: Racial Harassment in Local Communities
Kate Antonovics and Brian Knight: A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
Leah Platt Boustan: What’s Race Got to Do with It?: White Suburbanization as a Response to Black In-Migration, 1940-1970
Brian Bucks: Affirmative Access versus Affirmative Action: How Have Texas’s Race-Blind Policies Affected College Outcomes?
3. Low Wage Workers -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: Daniel Hamermesh, University of Texas
Anne E. Polivka and Rosemary Hyson: Low Wage Workers, the Minimum Wage, and Job Turnover
David Neumark and Scott Adams: The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
Stephen G. Bronars: Minimum Wages, Employment Losses, and Labor Unions: The Case of Professional Football
Frank McIntyre: An Empirical Model of Informal Markets, the Minimum Wage, and Mandated Nonwage Benefits
Nan L. Maxwell: English-Language Skills, Wages, and Employment for Low-Skilled Workers
4. Marriage, Divorce, & Household Bargaining I -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Nina Smith, Aarhus School of Business
Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss: Divorce, Remarriage, and Child Support
Betsey Stevenson: The Impact of Divorce Laws on Marriage-Specific Capital
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb: An Empirical Investigation of Household Bargaining
Nezih Guner and Jeremy Greenwood: Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Laura Crespo: Estimation and Testing of Households Labour Supply Models: Evidence from Spain
5. Returns to Education -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant:
Dinand Webbink , CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Pedro Martins: Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Lowell Taylor, Dan Black and Natalia Kolesnikova: Understanding Returns to Education when Wages and Prices Vary by Location
Sandra McNally and Eric Maurin: Vive La Revolution! Long-Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students
Barbara Sianesi and Erich Battistin: Misreport Schooling and Returns to Education: Evidence from the U.K.
Dinand Webbink: Born on the First of October: Estimating the Returns to Education Using a School Entry Rule
6. Resources & Educational Outcomes -- International Room
Chair/Discussant: Ludger Woessmann, IFO Institute for Economic Research, Munich
Lars Lefgren and Brian Jacob: Rethinking Teacher Quality: Evidence from Parent Requests
Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long: How Big Is Too Big? Class Size and Student Outcomes in College
Iida Häkkinen: Do University Entrance Exams Predict Academic Achievement?
Eskil Heinesen: School District Size and Student Educational Attainment: Evidence from Denmark
Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Wössmann: Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School
7. Labor Market Programs III -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant:
Roope Uusitalo, Labour Institute for Economic Research
David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman: Does ‘Work First’ Work? The Long-Term Consequences of Short-term Job Placements
Marc Gurgand, Bruno Crepon, Muriel Dejemeppe: Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment
Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, and Tommaso Nannicini: Sensitivity of Matching Estimators to Unconfoundedness. An Application to the Effect of Temporary Work on Future Employment
Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann, and Christoph Schmidt: Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role of Labor Force Status Sequences
Ossi Korkeamäki and Roope Uusitalo: Employment Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut: Evidence from a Regional Tax Subsidy Experiment
8. Aging -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: David Blau, University of North Carolina
Kelly Bedard and Elizabeth Dhuey: The Persistence of Early Maturity: International Evidence of Long-Run Age Effects
Natalya N. Dygalo and John M. Abowd: Estimating the Difference between Wages and Productivity by Age
Bruce A. Weinberg and David W. Galenson: Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics
Laura Romeu Gordo:
Compression of Morbidity and the Labor Supply of Older People
Wei Chi and Dennis Ahlburg: Disability, Work, and Care-Giving among the Elderly in the U.K.
9. Unionism -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Barry Hirsch, Trinity College
Christian Dustmann: Training and Union Wages
Andreas Westermark: Worker Substitutability, Union Structure and Strike Length
Lorenzo Cappellari, Alex Bryson, Claudio Lucifora: Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
Amy Peng and Louis Christofides: The Determinants of Major Provisions in Union Contracts: Duration, Indexation, and Noncontingent Wage Adjustment
Heather Rose and Jon Sonstelie: School Board Politics, School District Size, and the Bargaining Power of Teachers’ Unions
10. Immigration I -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant: Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago
Holger Bonin: Is the Labor Demand Curve Really Downward Sloping?
Kevin L. McKinney: Immigrant Arrival Cohorts and Their Wage Growth in the U.S. Labor Market: New Evidence from Longitudinal Employer-employee Data
Ilana Redstone Akresh:
U.S. Immigrants’ Labor Market Adjustment: Additional Human Capital Investment and Earnings Growth
Glenn Rayp, Nathalie Chusseau, Michel Dumont, Joël Hellier, Peter Willemé: Wage Inequality and Immigration in Europe (1960-1975)
Charles Bellemare: Identification and Estimation on the Economic Performance of Outmigrants Using Panel Attrition
11. Compensation Schemes -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant:
Michael Bognanno, Temple University
Bernt Bratsberg, Erling Barth, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum: Performance-Related Pay and the Intrafirm Wage Structure
Kevin F. Hallock and Craig A. Olson: The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
Mikko Mäkinen, Derek C. Jones, and Panu Kalmi: The Productivity Effects of Stock Option Schemes: Evidence from Finnish Panel Data
Donna K. Ginther and Dylan G. Rassier: Work Activities as Firm-Specific Human Capital: Estimates of the Effects on Wages
Ján Zábojník and Anthony M. Marino: Optimal Pricing of Employee Discounts and Benefits: A Rent Extraction View
12. Health, Work & Crime -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant: Nabanita Datta Gupta, Aarhus School of Business
Nancy Nicosia and Carlos Dobkin: The Impact of DEA Enforcement Efforts on Methamphetamine Availability, Public Health, and Crime
Ioannis Theodossiou, A. Nikolaou, and E.G. Vasileiou: Does Job Security Increase Job Satisfaction? A Study of the European Experience
Laurence Rioux and Alexandre Deloffre: Do Workers Correctly Evaluate Their Job Security?
Steven Stillman, Sarah Crichton, and Dean Hyslop: Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
Saturday, 4 June 2005
7:00-8:30
Buffet Breakfast, Grand Ballroom
Morning Sessions
D: 8:30-10:30 a.m.
1. Labor Market Programs IV -- California Room
Chair/Discussant:
Donald Storrie, University of Göteborg
Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie: Crime and Benefit Sanctions
Carolyn J. Heinrich and Marcelo Cabrol: Demand- and Supply-Side Effects of a Large-Scale Intervention to Promote Human Capital Accumulation in Argentina
Michael Lechner, Ruth Miguel, and Conny Wunsch: Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Jakob Roland Munch, Svend Jesperen, and Lars Skipper: Costs and Benefits of Danish Active Labor Market Programs
Henry Ohlsson and Donald Storrie: Long-Term Consequences of Job Loss in Sweden: Shipyard Workers in the West and Miners in the North
2.
Labor Supply, Parental Leave, & Discrimination -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: Libertad Gonzalez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maria Hanratty and Eileen Trzcinski: Impact of Family Leave in Canada and the United States and on the Employment Dynamics of Women
Uta Schoenberg: Evaluating Germany’s Maternity Leave Reforms
Francesco Renna and Randall King: The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on Early Career Outcomes
Guillermo Felices and David Tinsley:
Household Production and Labour Supply: Who Is Willing to Substitute Labour Intertemporally?
3. Self-Employment -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: David Neumark, Public Policy Institute of California
Kenneth Y. Chay, Robert Fairlie, and Ronnie Chatterji: The Impact of Contracting Set-asides on Minority Self-employment
Stefan Hochgürtel: The Dynamics of Self-employment and Household Wealth: New Evidence from Panel Data
Danny Leung:
Explaining the Rise in Self-employment: A Search Theoretic Approach
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: a Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Kevin B. Moore: Comparing the Earnings of Employees and the Self-Employed
4. Managers -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Alison Booth, Australian National University
Richard Holden and Christine Jolls: Managerial Contracts at Regulated Firms
Pablo Ruiz-Verdú: Agents (Almost) Without Principals: Executive Pay When Managers Can Manipulate Their Compensation Contracts
Florian Englmaier: A Strategic Rationale for Having Overconfident Managers
Linda A. Bell:
Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs
Michael Bognanno and Christian Belzil: The Wage Dynamics of American Executives
5. Gender II -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Catherine Weinberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nicole M. Fortin: Greed, Altruism, and the Gender Wage Gap
Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth, and Mark Bryan: Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Wage Gap Across the Wages Distribution
Susan Harkness: Employment and Earnings of British Women: A Cohort Analysis
Salimata Sissoko and Robert Plasman: Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective
Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo: Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-country Analysis of Gender Gaps
6. Intergenerational Mobility -- International Room
Chair/Discussant: Gary Fields, Cornell University
Enrico Moretti and Janet Currie: The Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters
Marianne Page, Philip Oreopoulos, and Ann Huff Stevens: Family Income Across Generations
Adalbert Mayer: Intergenerational Relationships over the Lifecycle and the Determination of Wages
Bhashkar Mazumder and Daniel Aaronson: Changes in Intergenerational Mobility During the Twentieth Century
Sari Pekkala and Robert E. B. Lucas: Changes in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the 20th Century Finland: Education, Migration and Other Explanations
7. Microeconomics of Unemployment I -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant:
Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University
Donald O. Parsons and Shuaizhang Feng: Insuring Displaced Workers: Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design
Federico Cingano and Alfonso Rosalia: People I Know: Social Networks and Job-search Outcomes
Pedro Portugal, Mario Centeno, John T. Addison: Reservation Wages, Search Duration and Accepted Wages in Europe
Oskar Nordström Skans: Scarring Effects of the First Labour Market Experience: a Sibling Based Analysis
Younghwan Song: Are Layoffs Really Lemons?
8. Education and Opportunities II -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: Torbjorn Haegeland Statistics Norway
Duane E. Leigh and Andrew M. Gill: The Responsiveness of California’s Community Colleges to Meeting the Educational Needs of Minorities and Immigrants
Bjorg Colding: Why Educational Attainment Is Lower among Children of Immigrants in Denmark: A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Progression
Mikael Lindahl, Anders Björklund, and Erik Plug:
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou: Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?
Torbjorn Haegeland, Oddbjorn Raaum, and Kjell G. Salvanes: Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background
9. Immigration II -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Kelly Bedard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Delia Furtado: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children
Linda Bailey: Revisiting the Effect of Illegal Labor on the U.S. Labor Market: A Look at the Relationship Between the Education-wage Gap and the Size of the Illegal Population
Anne Morrison Piehl and Kristin F. Butcher: Crime and Immigration: Further Evidence on the Connection
Seth Sanders and Sarah Bohn: Refining the Estimation of Immigrants’ Labor Market Effects
Manuel F. Bagues and Maria José Pérez: Multidimensional statistical discrimination -- Why do I like people like me?
10. Retirement -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant:
Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania
Matias Eklöf and Daniel Hallberg: Estimating early retirement with private alternatives
Raquel Fonseca and Thepthida Sopraseuth: Welfare Effects of Social Security Reforms Across Europe: the case of France and Italy
François Langot, Jean-Olivier Hairault, and Thepthida Sopraseuth: A Qualitative Investigation of the Laffer Curve on the Continued Work Tax. The French Case
Pierre-Carl Michaud: Labor Force Participation Dynamics and Social Security Claiming Decisisons
Nicole Maestas: Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement
11. Work Arrangements -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Edward Lazear, Stanford University
Hyowook Chiang, Fredrik Andersson, Clair Brown, Benjamin Campbell, and Yooki Park: The Effect of HRM Practices and R&D Investment on Worker Productivity
Cindy Zoghi and Robert D. Mohr: Is Job Enrichment Really Enriching?
Laura Giuliano, David I. Levine and Jonathan Leonard: Race, Gender and Hiring Patterns: Evidence from a Large Service-Sector Employer
René Böheim and Mark P. Taylor: And in the Evening She’s a Singer with the Band -- Second Job Holding in the UK
Lois Joy and Nabanita Datta Gupta: Gender Differences in Occupations: Supply and Demand-Side Effects
12. Issues in Education I -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant:
Hans Heijke, Maastricht University
Kjell Salvanes, Sandra E. Black and Paul J. Devereux: Staying in the Classroom and Out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Donghun Cho: Trends in U.S. College Enrollment, 1970-2000: Why Have Women Overtaken Men?
Stacey H. Chen: Estimating the Variance of Wages in the Presence of Selection and Unobservale Heterogeneity
Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda: Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of Schoolleaving Rules
Theodora Xenogiani and Eric Maurin: Demand for Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Lessons from the Abolition of Compulsory Conscription in France
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break, Grand Ballroom
11:00-12:00 SOLE Business Session -- Grand Ballroom
Chair, Finis Welch, Unicon Research Corporation
Presidential Address
John Pencavel, Stanford University
“Earnings Inequality and Labor Supply in Husband-Wife Families”
Announcement of
new SOLE Fellows, Finis Welch, SOLE Outgoing President
Award of the Mincer Prize: Janet Currie, Chair, Award Committee
12:00-2:00
Lunch -- Grand Ballroom
Afternoon Sessions
E: 2:00-4:00 1. Earnings Inequality & Mobility -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: Peter Gottschalk, Boston College
Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw: The Structure of Wages, Raises, and Mobility within and among Countries
Gary S. Fields, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Robert Duval Hernandez and Samuel Freije: Earnings
Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Scott Drewianka, Cross-Sectional Variation in Individuals’ Earning Instability
Oddbjorn Raaum, Tor Eriksson, and Bernt Bratsberg: Earnings Persistence Across Generations: Transmission Through Health?
Nicolas Pistolesi, Arnaud Lefranc, and Alain Trannoy:
Inequality of Opportunities vs. Inequality of Outcomes: Are Western Societies All Alike?
2. Unemployment Insurance I -- California Room
Chair/Discussant: Bertil Holmlund, Uppsala University
Joseph Tracy and Meg McConnell: Unemployment Insurance and the Diminished Importance of Temporary Layoffs over the Business Cycle
Jeffrey B. Wenger and Heather Boushey: Does Insurance Beget Insurance? The Role of Unemployment Insurance in Finding a Job with Health Insurance Benefits
Volker Meier, Christian Holzer, and Martin Werding: Workfare, Monitoring and Efficiency Wages
Ott Toomet: Does an Increase of Unemployment Income Lead to Longer Unemployment Spell? Evidence Using Danish Unemployment Assistance Data
Bertil Holmlund: Sickness, Absence, Search Unemployment and Social Insurance
3. Macroeconomics of Unemployment II -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant:
Jarkko Turunen, European Central Bank
Bentley MacLeod,
Thomas Lemieux, and Daniel Parent:
Bonus Pay and Wage Inequality
Claudio Lucifora and Federico Biagi: Baby Bust, Educational Boom, and Unemployment in Europe
Martin Zagler: Does Economic Growth Exhibit a Different Impact on Job Creation and Job Destruction? Some Microeconomic Evidence from the U.K.
Fernando Muñoz-Bullón, Alfonso Alba-Ramírez: Exits from Unemployment in Spain: Recall or New Job
Jarkko Turunen and Anna Sanz De Galeano: Real Wages and Local Unemployment in the Euro Area
4. Labor Supply II -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Betsey Stevenson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
James A. Kahn and Simon Potter: Labor Supply and the Changing Household
William R. Johnson: Constrained Labor Supply in Market Equilibrium
Martha Stinson, John Abowd, and Gary Benedetto: The Covariance of Earnings and Hours Revisited
Melanie Lührmann and Matthias Weiss: Labor Market Participation, Home Production and the Demand for Unskilled Labor
Tim Barmby and Peter Dolton: The Riddle of the Sands? Intertemporal Substitution of Labour for Archaeological Workers in Northern Syria in 1938
5. Human Capital -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Olivier Deschênes, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alison Booth and Melvyn Coles: Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Underinvestment Trap
Alberto Dalmazzo and Guido De Blasio: Where Do Human Capital Spillovers End Up?
Stepan Jurajda:
Are There Increasing Returns to Local Concentration of Skills? Evidence on Wages and Returns to Education in Transition
Katherine Terrell, Daniel Munich, and Jan Svejnar: Do Markets Favor Women’s Human Capital More than Planners?
Tsung-Ping Chung, Peter Dolton, and Andrew Tremayne: The Determinants of Teacher Supply: Time Series Evidence for the UK, 1962-2001
6. Employment Regulation -- International Room
Chair/Discussant: Christine Jolls, Harvard University
Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro: Firms and the Burden of the Regulation in Brazil
Stefano Scarpetta and Gaelle Pierre: Employment Regulations Through the Eyes of the Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Employers Respond to Them?
Adriana Kugler, Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler: Employment and Capital Adjustments after Factor Market Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Raquel Fonseca and Natalia Utrero: Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth
7. Children, Motherhood & Work I -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant:
Mary Gregory, Oxford University
Erdal Tekin and Janet Currie: Socioeconomic Status and Long-Term Effects of Child Abuse
Nina Smith, Nabanita Dattu Gupta, and Leslie S. Stratton: Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark
Ernesto Villanueva and Nuno Martins: Does limited access to mortgage debt explainwhy young adults coreside with their parents?
Mary Gregory and Sara Connolly: Part-Time Work: A Trap for Women's Careers? An Analysis of the Roles of Heterogeneity and Persistence
Younghwan Song: Are Layoffs Really Lemons?
8. Discrimination -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: Maria Hanratty, University of Minnesota
Antonio Filippin: Discrimination and Workers’ Expectations
Jonas Lagerström and Per-Anders Edin: Blind Dates: Quasi-experimental Evidence on Discrimination
Gigi Foster: Names Will Never Hurt Me: Racially Distinct Names and Identity in the Undergraduate Classroom
Jane Greve, Torben Tranaes, and Peter Jensen: Statistical Discrimination of Disabled Workers
Ada Ma: Gender Discrimination: Pay and Promotion in Job Ladders
9. Training, Human Capital & Growth II -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant:
Adriaan van Zon, Maastrich University
Daniel L. Millimet and Trevor Collier: Institutional Arrangements in Educational Systems and Student Achievement: A Cross-National Analysis
Anja Kuckulenz and Thomas Zwick: The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms
Antonio Menezes and José Cabral Vieira: Job Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction
Adriaan Van Zon and Roberto Antonietti: Education and training in a model of endogenous growth with creative destruction
10. Mexican Labor Markets -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant:
Deborah Cobb-Clark, Australian National University
Robert W. Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff: Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Jim Airola: Estimating the Labor Supply Effects of International Remittances in Mexico
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo: International Remittances and Their Employment Implications in Receiving Areas
Manuela Angelucci: Aid and Migration: An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration
Darren Lubotsky and Pablo Ibarraran: The Socioeconomic Status of Mexican Migrant Families: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census
11. Wage Payment Mechanisms -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Lawrence Kahn, Cornell University
Bruce Shearer and Harry J. Paarsch: The Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eric Verhoogen and David Kaplan: Quality Upgrading and Efficiency Wages: Evidence from Mexican Employer-employee Data
Paul Chen: Reciprocity at the Workplace: Do Fair Wages Lead to Higher Effort, Productivity, and Profitability?
Sandra Maximiano, Randolph Sloof, and Joep Sonnemans: Gift Exchange in a Multi-worker Firm
Andrew Seltzer, Steffen Huck, and Brian Wallace: Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-period Labor Markets
12. Health & Income -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant: Maarten Lindeboom, Free University Amsterdam
Duncan Thomas, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jed Friedman, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Nathan Jones, Christopher McKelvey, Gretel Pelto, Bondan Sikoki, James P. Smith, and Wayan Suriastini: Causal effect of health on economic prosperity: Evidence from a random-assignment iron supplementation intervention
Christopher McKelvey, Gretel Pelto, Bondan Sikoki, James P. Smith, and Wayan Suriastini: Causal Effect of Health on Economic Prosperity: Evidence from a Random-assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention
Vincent Hildebrand and Philippe Van Kerm: Income Inequality and Self-Rated Health Status: Evidence from the European Community Household Panel
Andrew Leigh and Christopher Jenks: Health and Inequality: Evidence Over the Very Long Run
Patrik Hesselius: Sickness Absence and Subsequent Wages
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30
Adam Smith Lecture, Grand Ballroom
Chair: Stephen Machin, EALE Board
Lecture: “Earned Income Tax Credits: The Evaluation and Optimality of Policies for the Low Skilled”
Richard Blundell, University College London
Sponsored by the European Central Bank and Elsevier
Sunday, 5 June 2005
7:00-8:30
Buffet Breakfast, Grand Ballroom
Morning Sessions, 1
F: 8:30-10:30 1. Gender III -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant: Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn: The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Ilan Tojerow, Robert Plasman, François Rycx, and Brenda Gannon: Inter-industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries
Insan Tunali and Meltem Dayioglu: Falling Behind While Catching Up: Changes in the Female-Male Wage Differential in Urban Turkey, 1988 to 1994
Limor Golan and George-Levi Gayle: Labor Market Attachment, Discrimination and the Gender Wage Gap
Alicia Adsera and Barry Chiswick: Are There Gender Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes Across European Countries?
2. Labor Market Programs V -- California Room
Chair/Discussant:
Bruno van der Linden, Université Catholique de Louvain
Enrico Rettore, Adriano Paggiaro, and Ugo Trivellato: The Impact of the Italian Mobility Lists on the Employment Changes: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Archives
Aki Kangasjarju and Takis Venetoklis: Wage Subsidies and the Firm Level Employment
Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini: Threshold Effects and Firm Size: the Case of Firing Costs
Stephanie Lluis and Ana Ferrer: Should Workers Care about Firm Size?
Bruno Van Der Linden: Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness
3. Marriage, Divorce & Household Bargaining II -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: Ana Rute Cardoso, IZA Bonn
Shelly Lundberg: The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?
Leslie S. Stratton: The Degree of Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework and How Specialization Varies Across Couple Households
Chris Van Klaveren and Henriëtte Maassen Van Den Brink:
Intra household work time synchronization
Delia Furtado: Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions
4. Entrepreneurs -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Rob Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz
Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant: Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Mirjam Van Praag, Justin Van Der Sluis, and Arjen Van Witteloostuijn: The Impact of the Locus-of-Control Personality Trait on the Earnings of Employees vis-à-vis Entrepreneurs
Mika Maliranta: Do Foreign Players Change the Nature of the Game among Local Entrepreneurs?
5. Earnings Mobility -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: John Abowd, Cornell University
Yolanda Rebollo Sanz and José Ignacio Garcia Pérez: A Structural Estimation to Evaluate Alternatives Sources of Wage Mobility in Europe
Sébastien Roux, John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz: Wages, Mobility and Firm Performance: an Analysis Using Match Employee and Employer Data from France
Arnaud Chevalier, Colm Harmon, Vincent O’Sullivan, and Ian Walker: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children
Roger Wahlberg and Jorgen Hansen: Poverty Persistence in Sweden
Andrew Grodner, John Bishop, and Thomas J. Kniesner: The Patterns of Poverty: Evaluating County Level Effects
6. The Learning Environment -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant: Janet Currie, University of California, Los Angeles
Francesco Renna: Drinking in School and Labor Earnings
Jelena Vesovic: Career Behavior of Delayed versus Early School Finishers
Darren Lubotsky and Todd Elder: The Causes and Consequences of Being Late for School
Peter Fredriksson and Björn Ockert: Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance
Christoph Meng and Hans Heijke: Student Time Allocation, the Learning Environment and the Acquisition of Competencies
7. Microeconomics of Unemployment II -- International Room
Chair/Discussant:
Pedro Portugal, Banco de Portugal
John S. Earle and Seife Dendir: Nonrecoverable Wages, Learning, and Unemployment Duration of Displaced Workers
Robert G. Valletta: Rising Unemployment Duration in the United States: Causes and Consequences
Getinet Haile: Re-employment Hazard of Displaced German Workers
Famke Soenen and Helke Soenen: Networking among Undocumented Migrants: The Case of Job Search
Pedro Portugal, Julian Guimarães, and José Machado: Has Long Become Longer or Short Shorter: Evidence from a Quantile Regression Analysis in the Distribution of U.S. Unemployment Duration
8. Labor Supply III -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: Paul Devereux, University of California, Los Angeles
Shoshana Grossbard: Who Will Pay the Bills? A Theory of Women’s Welfare Dependency, Marriage, and Labor Supply
Ronald S. Warren, Jr., Christopher M. Cornwell, and Karen L. Tinsley: Religious Background and the Labor Supply and Wages of Young Women
Bradley T. Heim: The Incredible Shrinking Elasticities: Married Female Labor Supply, 1979-2003
James P. Vere: Life Cycle Effects of Fertility on Parents’ Labor Supply
9. Country Studies -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Bernd Fitzenberger, Frankfurt University
Frédèric Warzynski and Valérie Smeets: Job Creation, Job Destruction and Voting Behaviour in Poland
Irina A. Denisova, Jacob Benus, Raluca Catrinel Brinza, Vasilica Cuica, and Marina Kartseva: Retraining Programs in Russia and Romania: Impact Evaluation Study
Uwe Blien, Jens Suedekum, and Katja Wolff: Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Approach
Ansgar Belke, Matthias Böcke, and Martin Hebler: Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impact on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
Tania Rajadel: The Engagement in the Non-Agricultural Sector as a Risk-Mitigating Strategy in Rural Pakistan
10. Immigration & Retirement -- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant: Cordelia Reimers, City University of New York
Juan F. Jimeno, Raquel Carrasco, and Ana Carolina Ortega: The Effect of Immigration on the Employment Opportunities of Native-born Workers: Some Evidence for Spain
Andries de Grip and Jim Allen: Skill Obsolescence, Lifelong Learning and Labour Market Participation
Tuulia Hakola and Roope Uusitalo: Not So Voluntary Retirement Decisions? Evidence from a Pension Reform
Jia Zhiyang: Retirement Behavior of Working Couples in Norway, a Dynamic Programming Approach
11. Issues in Education II -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Steve Machin, University College London
Barry Hirsch and James Freeman: College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs
Ludger Woessmann: The Effect Heterogeneity of Central Exams: Evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA
Pal Boring and Terje Naess: Heterogeneity Due to Unobserved Variables and Differing Search Behaviour among University Students
Joel Elvery: High School and GED: Equivalent for Dropouts?
12. Training, Human Capital & Growth III -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant:
Massimiliano Tani, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy
Bart Golsteyn and Lex Borghans: Human Capital Accumulation over the Life-cycle: Reasons and Costs of Higher Age
Vincent Hogan and Ian Walker: Risk in Education
Vincent Vandenberghe and O. Debande:
Deferred and Income-Contingent Higher Education Fees: An empirical assessment using Belgian data
Hannu Piekkola: Knowledge Capital as the Source of Growth
Massimiliano Tani: A Neoclassical Growth Model with Temporary and Permanent Migrants
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break, Mezzanine/Tonga
Morning Sessions, 2
G: 11:00-1:00 1. Growth & Wage Rigidity -- California Room
Chair/Discussant: Francine Blau, Cornell University
Peter Gottschalk: Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility
Luigi Pistaferri, Luigi Guiso and Fabiano Schivardi: Disentangling Employment and Wage Rigidity
Tobias Linzert and Kai Christoffel: The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labour Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics
Fredrik Wulfsberg and Steinar Holden: Downward Nominal Rigidity in the OECD
2. Education & Opportunities III -- Hunt Room
Chair/Discussant:
Lex Borghans, Maastricht University
W. Craig Riddell and Chris Riddell: Educational Upgrading and its Consequences among Welfare Recipients
Ferran Mane and John Bishop: Educational Reform and Disadvantaged Students
Johannes Mure and Uschi-Backes-Gellner: The skill-weights approach on firm specific human capital: Empirical results for Germany
Patrick Puhani and Steve Machin: The Contribution of Degree Subject to the Gender Wage Gap for Graduates: A Comparison of Britain France and Germany
Insan Tunali: General vs. Vocational Secondary School, Choice and Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey, 1988-98
3. Turnover & Contracts -- Vanderbilt Room
Chair/Discussant: Michael Ransom, Brigham Young University
Michael Sattinger: Labor Queues
Asa Rosén and Espen R. Moen: Incentive Contracts and Worker Turnover in Search Equilibrium
Maria Guadalupe and Vicente Cunat: How Does Product Market Competition Shape Incentive Contracts?
Julia Lane, Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Brian Mccall, Nicole Netoriak, and Timothy Park: Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices: An Analysis of the Retail Food Sector
Richard Prisinzano and Malathi Velamuri: Promotion Expectations, Job Turnover, and Promotion Realizations
4. Labor Supply IV -- State Room
Chair/Discussant: Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington
Steinar Strom, Øystein Jørgensen, and Tone Ognedal: Labour Supply When Tax Evasion Is an Option
James P. Ziliak: Relative Prices and Substitution Across Wage, Welfare, and Disability Income
Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan, Andres Shephard, María José Suárez: Did Working Families’ Tax Credit Work? Analysing the Impact of In-Work Support on Labour Supply and Programme Participation
Pierre Koning: Estimating the Impact of Experience Rating on the Inflow into Disability Insurance in the Netherlands
5. Children, Motherhood & Work II -- Frontier Room
Chair/Discussant: Nina Smith, Aarhus School of Business
Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner: The Effect of Family Income on Children's Achievement: Evidence from Changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit
Laura M. Argys and Daniel I. Rees: Searching for Peer Group Effects: A Test of the Contagion Hypothesis
Libertad Gonzalez: Single Mothers in Europe: A Decomposition Approach
Helena Holmlund: Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: An Examination of the Siblings Approach
Rocio Sanchez-Mangas and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos: Reconciling Female Labor Participation and Motherhood: The Effect of Benefits for Working Mothers
6. Issues in Employment & Wages -- International Room
Chair/Discussant:
Terence Yuen, Bank of Canada
David Margolis: Compensation Policy, Human Resource Management Practices and Takeovers
Anna Piil Damm: Employment Spillover from Ethnic Networks?
Juuso Vanhala and Giovanni L. Violante: Growth and Nonemployment: A Search Model with Vintage Human Capital
Terence Yuen and Danny Leung: Labour Market Adjustment to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries
7. Issues in Health -- Far East Room
Chair/Discussant: Nabanita Datta Gupta, Aarhus School of Business
Joanna Campbell, Brent Goldfarb and Niny Khor: The Early Adulthood of Overweight Adolescents
Steven Puller and Carlos Dobkin: Cash Assistance and the Monthly Cycle in Drug-Related Hospitalizations
David Frisvold, Kathryn Anderson and James Foster: Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start
Jan Saarela and Fjalar Finnäs: Mortality Inequality in Two Native Population Groups
Per Skedinger and Per Johansson:
Are Objective, Official Measures of Disability Reliable?
8. Wages & Job Choice -- Empire Room
Chair/Discussant: Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Francis Green, David Campbell, Alan Carruth, Andrew Dickerson: Job Insecurity and Wages
Javier Miranda: The Long-Term Effects of Job Mobility on the Earnings of Young Men: Evidence from Integrated Employer-Employee Data
Simon Parker: Interdependent Occupational Choice
Blaise Melly: Public and Private Sector Wage Distributions Controlling for Endogenous Sector Choice
Liqun Liu: Pre-market Characteristics, Gender Wage Diversity, and Minorities' Performance in the Labor Market
9. Measurement Issues -- Green Room
Chair/Discussant: Bruce Fallick, Federal Reserve Board
Tracy L. Regan and Ronald L. Oaxaca: Measurement Error in Work Experience Measures
Carlos Gradin, Coral Del Río, and Olga Cantó: The Measurement of Gender Wage Discrimination; the Distributional Approach Revisited
Myeong-Su Yun: Normalized Regression and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Its Inference
Walter Wessels: A Test of the Increment-Decrement Method of Estimating Worklife
Paul Sullivan: Occupational Choices and Wages: Estimation with Measurement Error in Reported Occupations
10.
Unemployment Insurance and Employer Search
-- Garden Room
Chair/Discussant: Wolter Hassink, Utrecht University
Stephen A. Woodbury and Michael A. Allgrunn: Emergency Extended Benefits and the Duration of Unemployment: How Sensitive Are the Estimates to Econometric Assumptions?
Wei Chi and Brian McCall:
Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Durations, and Post-displacement Wages
Tomi Kyyrä and Virve Ollikainen: Unemployment, Insurance Duration and Transitions to Employment
Rafael Lalive, Jan Van Ours, and Josef Zweimuller: How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken: Employer Search and Deadweight Loss Patterns
11. Labor Market Programs VI -- Cambridge Suite Parlor, 480
Chair/Discussant: Martin Werding, Institute for Economic Research, Munich
Jan Van Ours and Jan Boone: Effective Active Labor Market Policies
Knut Roed, Simen Gaure, and Tao Zhang: Time and causality: A Monte Carlo assessment of the timing-of-events approach
Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze, and Alexander Spermann:
Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez, and Todd Neumann: Learning But Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanics
Martin Werding, Volker Meier, and Christian Holzner: Time Limits on Welfare Use under Involuntary Unemployment
12. Location Choice & Turnover -- Suite Parlor 462
Chair/Discussant:
Sascha Becker, University of Munich
Kristiina Huttunen: The Effect of Foreign Acquisition on Employment and Wages
Anne Gielen and Jan C. Van Ours: Age-specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labour Mobility
Miguel A. Malo, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, and Fernando Munoz-Bullon: The Role of Temporary Help Agencies on Workers’ Career Advancement
Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm, Robert Jäckle, and Marc-Andres Muendler: Location Choice and Employment Decisions: a Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals
Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth: Sorting and Inequality in Canadian Schools
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