Program COST A23 meeting in Essen (Germany), October 19-20, 2006

Venue: RWI Essen / Hohenzollernstr. 1-3 / 45128 Essen

Thursday, October 19
12.00 - 12.40 Lunch and welcome
Human capital policies
12.40 - 13.20 Emla Fitzsimons, Modelling Earnings Dynamics using Copulas
(joint with Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan)
13.20 - 14.00 Erica Lindahl, Does Gender Matter when Final Grades are set? - Evidence from Sweden
14.00 - 14.40 Maresa Sprietsma, The effect of relative age in the first grade of primary school on long-term scholastic results: international comparative evidence using PISA 2003
14.40 - 15.00 Break
Program evaluation
15.00 - 15.40 Jeremy Lise, Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
15.40 - 16.20 Laura Hospido, Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
Social security and taxes I
16.20 - 17.00 Laurence Rioux, Do UI benefit levels or benefit duration have an impact on the perceived job security?
(with Stefan Lollivier)
17.00 - 17.20 Break
17.20 - 18.00 Andrea Weber, Does Cash-in-Hand Matter? New Evidence from the Labor Market
(with David Card and Raj Chetty)
18.00 - 18.40 Erik Gronqvist, Does Adverse Selection Matter?
18.40 Management committee meeting
20.30 Dinner
Friday October 20
Social security and taxes II
09.00 - 09.40 Tuulia Hakola, The effect of pension reform on retirement age and income distribution - estimates from a dynamic programming model
(with Niku Maattanen)
Employment position and legislation
09.40 - 10.20 Egbert Jongen, Exploring the Ambiguous Impact of EPL on Employment and Productivity
(with Sabina Visser)
10.20 - 10.50 Break
10.50 - 11.30 Annette Bergemann, From Childbirth to Paid Work: A Structural Analysis of the Effects of Adult Education on Labor Market Outcomes of Prime-Aged Mothers
11.30 - 12.10 Jochen Kluve, The effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy
12.10 - 12.50 Michael Lechner, Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
(with Conny Wunsch)
13.00 Lunch