COST Conference October 20-21, 2005, Paris

Venue: C R E S T 15, Boulevard Gabriel Peri 92245 MALAKOFF

Thursday October 20
Programme Evaluation:
12.00 - 13.00	Welcome and lunch
13.00 - 13.40	Laura Larsson (Sweden) Stepping stones or dead ends: an analysis of Swedish replacement contracts
13.40 - 14.20	John Kennes (Denmark) Labour Market Programmes and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-off
14.20 - 15.00	Conny Wunsch (Switzerland) The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification
15.00 - 15.30	Break
Human Capital Policies:
15.30 - 16.10	Mary Silles (Denmark) The role of non-cognitive development in education and earnings: Evidence from British data
16.10 - 16.50	Albrecht Glitz (Austria) The Impact of Immigration on Local Labour Markets in Germany
16.50 - 17.10	Break
17.10 - 17.50	Paul J. Devereux (Ireland) From the Cradle to the Grave? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes of Children
Social Security and Taxes:
17.50 - 18.30	Morten Henningsen (Norway) Incentives and Duration Dependence in Transitions from Unemployment to Sickness
18.30	Management Committee meeting
20.00	Conference dinner
Friday October 21
Social Security and Taxes (continued):
9.00 - 9.40	Ana Llena-Nozal (Netherlands) The interrelation between disability and work and the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
9.40 - 10.20	Renata Bottazzi (UK) Explaining life-cycle profiles of home ownership and labour supply
Employment Position and Legislation:
10.20 - 11.10	Blaise Melly (Switzerland) Public and private sector wage distributions controlling for endogenous sector choice
11.10 - 11.30	Break
11.30 - 12.10	Brenda Gannon (Ireland) The Influence of Economic Incentives on Reported Disability Status in a Labour Force Participation Model
12.10 - 12.50	Imran Rasul (UK) Managerial Incentives in Hierarchies: Evidence From a Field Experiment
13.00	Lunch