Conference

The Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Date: October 17 and 18, 2002
Place: De Burcht, Henri Polaklaan 9, Amsterdam

10.00 - 10.15 Coffee and tea
10.15 - 10.30 Opening

Chair: Jean Marc Robin (ENSAE)
10.30	Martin Browning (CAM) Estimating intertemporal allocation parameters using simulated residual estimation
11.10	Bruno Crepon (CREST) Evaluation of the effects of payroll tax subsidies for low wage workers
11.50	Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson (Uppsala University) Program evaluation and on-going program starts

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

Chair: Jacques van der Gaag (Tinbergen Institute, UvA)
14.00	Martin Junge (CAM) A retirement model with unemployment
14.40	Andrew Chesher (UCL) Instrumental values
15.20	Manuel Arellano (CEMFI) Modeling optimal instruments for dynamic panel data

16.00 - 17.00 Coffee and tea

Chair: Coen Teulings (Tinbergen Institute, EUR)
17.00	David Leblanc and Laurent Gobillon (CREST) Should I stay or should I own? The impact of borrowing constaints on mobility and tenure choice
17.50	Francis Kramarz (CREST) Sorting workers between and within industries
18.20	James Heckman (University of Chicago) Identifying and estimating the hedonic model of Tinbergen and Rosen

19.00 Dinner and drinks

09.00 - 09.10 Coffee and tea

Chair: Maarten Lindeboom (Tinbergen Institute, VU)
09.10	Costas Meghir, L. Dearden, C. Emmerson, and C. Frayne (UCL) Educational Maintenance Allowance
09.50	Hessel Oosterbeek, Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl and Dinand Webbink (Tinbergen Institute, UvA) The effects of extra schooling on early test scores

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and tea

Chair: Per-Andes Edin (Uppsala University)
11.00	Arnaud Chevalier (UCD, LSE), Colm Harmon (UCD, UCL) and Ian Walker (Warwick, IFS) Signalling vs human capital: evidence from the UK minimun school leaving age
11.40	Bas van der Klaauw, Hans Hoogeveen and Gijsbert van Lomwel (Tinbergen Institute, VU) On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks in rural Zimbabwe

12.20 - 13.40 Lunch

Chair: Manuel Arrelano (CEMFI)
13.40	Jan F. Kiviet and Maurice Bun (Tinbergen Institute, UvA) The effects of dynamic feedbacks on LS and MM estimator accuracy in panel data models
14.20	Jesus M. Carro (CEMFI) Estimating dynamic panel data discrete choice models with fixed effects

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee and tea

Chair: Richard Blundell (UCL)
15.30	Laura Larsson (Uppsala University) Sick of being unemployed?
16.10	Barbara Sianesi (UCL) Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s

16.50 - 18.00 Drinks

Address: De Burcht, Bondsraadzaal
Henri Polaklaan 9
1018 CP Amsterdam
tel.: 020-6241166
Email: excellence@tinbergen.nl

Financial support of ministery of social affairs and employment