| Thursday May 10 |
| 12.00 - 12.40 |
Lunch and welcome |
| Social security and taxes |
| 12.40 - 13.20 |
Ghazala Azmat (ES),
The Impact of Tax Credits on Labour Supply
|
| 13.20 - 14.00 |
Caroline Runeson (SWE) Moral hazard among the sick
and unemployed: Evidence from a Swedish social insurance reform
(with Laura Larsson) |
| 14.00 - 14.40 |
Mari Rege (NO),
Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation: Evidence from Plant Downsizing
(with Kjetil Telle and Mark Votruba) |
| 14.40 - 15.00 |
Break |
| Human capital policies |
| 15.00 - 15.40 |
Roope Uusitalo (FI)
Long-term effects of job search training: Evidence from randomized field experiments
(with Kari Hämäläinen, Elina Nykyri and Jukka Vuori) |
| 15.40 - 16.20 |
Arne Uhlendorff (GE),
Evaluating continuous training
measures using the Generalized Propensity Score
(with Hilmar Schneider, Zhong Zhao and Jochen Kluve) |
| 16.20 - 17.00 |
Samuel Berlinski (UK),
Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles
(with Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda) |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Break |
| Employment position and legislation I |
| 17.20 - 18.00 |
Stefanie Behncke (CH),
Unemployed and their caseworkers - should they be friends or foes?
(with Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner) |
| 18.00 |
Management committee meeting |
| 20.30 |
Dinner |
| Friday May 11 |
| Employment position and legislation II |
| 08.20 - 09.00 |
Cockx, Bart (BE),
Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(with Muriel Dejemeppe) |
| 09.00 - 09.40 |
Elisabeta Jaba (RO),
A Forecast Model of the Employment Rate in Romania
with Carmen Pintlescu, Elena Viorica and Christiana Balan |
| 09.40 - 10.20 |
Conny Wunsch (CH), Optimal Use of Job-Search-
Assistance Programmes in West Germany |
| 10.20 - 10.50 |
Break |
| Program evaluation |
| 10.50 - 11.30 |
Jonas Staghoj (DK),
Exploiting Impact Heterogeneity: A Statistical Model of Programme Selection
(with Michael Svarer
and Michael Rosholm) |
| 11.30 - 12.10 |
Thibault Brodaty (FR), Earnings mobility, state
dependence and unobserved heterogeneity: the case of the United-
States in the 90's |
| 12.10 - 12.50 |
Edwin Leuven (NL), Tournaments as incentive devices;
evidence from a field experiment (with Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep
Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw) |
| 13.00 |
Lunch |
