The microeconometrics/labour network funded under the Cost A23

Conference May 19 - 20, 2005 in Uppsala

Venue: First Hotel Linné, Skolgatan 45, Uppsala

Programme

Thursday May 19
12.00 - 13.00	Welcome and lunch
13.00 - 13.40	Andrea Weber, Institute for Advanced Studies,Vienna Compensating wage differentials and seasonal employment in Austria: evidence from administrative data (joint with Emilia Del Bono)
13.40 - 14.20	Stéphane Bonhomme, CEMFI, Madrid The Pervasive Absence of Compensating Differentials (joint with Grégory Jolivet)
14.20 - 15.00	Ernesto Villanueva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Compensating Wage Differentials and Voluntary Job Changes: Evidence from West Germany
15.00 - 15.30	Break
15.30 - 16.10	Lars Nesheim, University College London Semiparametric analysis of sorting and school quality
16.10 - 16.50	Erik Plug, Department of Economics University of Amsterdam Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data? (joint with Anders Björklund and Mikael Lindahl)
16.50 - 17.10	Break
17.10 - 17.50	Torbjørn Hægeland, Statistics Norway, Oslo The impact of teacher input on pupil achievement at age 16 using a hydro-powered instrument (joint with Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G. Salvanes)
17.50 - 18.30	Lisa Farrell, University College Dublin Who are the Self-employed? A New Empirical Approach (joint with Sarah Brown, and Mark N. Harris)
18.30	Management Committee meeting
20.00	Conference dinner
Friday May 20
9.00 - 9.40	Elena Martinez-Sanchis, University College London Indentification and Estimation of GMM Models by a combination of Two Data Sets
9.40 - 10.20	Gerard van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam Social experiments, instrumental variables, and duration outcomes
10.20 - 11.10	Monica Costa Dias, University College London Evaluating Dynamic Treatment: the Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes (co-authors Jerome Adda, Costas Meghir and Barbara Sianesi
11.10 - 11.30	Break
11.30 - 12.10	Anna Piil Damm, University of Copenhagen Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants (joint with Michael Rosholm University of Aarhus)
12.10 - 12.50	Francis Kramarz, CREST-INSEE, Paris Network in the boardroom
13.00	Lunch