Cost conference October 14-15, 2004, Amsterdam

Venue: Keizersgracht 218 B, 1016 DZ Amsterdam

Programme


Thursday October 14

12.00 - 13.00 Welcome and lunch

Chair: Hessel Oosterbeek

13.00 - 13.45 Gerard van den Berg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
Survey non-response and unemployment duration
13.45 - 14.30 Roope Uusitalo, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki
Employment effects of a payroll tax cut. Evidence from a regional tax subsidy experiment
14.30 - 15.15 Mette Gørtz, Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, Copenhagen
Spending Time and Money within the Household
15.15 - 15.45 Break

Chair: Joop Hartog

15.45 - 16.30 Bruno Crépon, CREST-INSEE
Counseling the unemployed: does it lower unemployment duration and recurrence?
16.30 - 17.15 Wendy Janssens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation: Spillover Effects of a Women's Empowerment Programme
17.15 - 17.30 Short break
17.30 - 18.15 Giacomo De Giorgi, University College London
The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) Five Years On
18.15 - 19.00 Inés Hardoy, Institute for social research, Oslo
Too good to be true? The effect of prolonging leave on the family gap
20.00 Conference Dinner

Friday October 15

9.00 Coffee

Chair: Erik Plug

9.00 - 9.45 Jochen Kluve, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role Of Employment Histories
9.45 - 10.30 Arnaud Chevalier, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College Dublin and University of Kent
The Causal Effect of Education on Depression
10.30 - 10.45 Short break
10.45 - 11.30 Magnus Gustavsson, University of Uppsala
Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation
11.30 - 12.15 Sara de la Rica, Universidad del Pais Vasco
The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from matched employer-employee data
12.15 - 13.00 Jean Ries, Université Catholique de Louvain
The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium. Does it enhance the probability of employment?
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch and meeting Management Committee Cost Action A23

Chair: Jaap Abbring

14.30 - 15.15 Samuel Berlinski, University College London
When do Government Interventions Crowd-In Parental Investments in Human Capital? Theory and evidence from head start
15.15 - 16.00 Gema Zamarro, CEMFI, Madrid
Accounting for Heterogeneous Returns in a Sequential Model of Schooling Decisions