Program COST meeting in The Hague (Netherlands) October 25-26, 2007

Venue:
October 25: Hotel Golden Tulip BelAir, Johan de Wittlaan 30, The Hague
October 26: Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), Van Stolkweg 14, The Hague

Thursday October 25
11.30 - 13.00 Lunch and welcome
Program evaluation
chair Coen Teulings
13.00 - 13.40Conny Wunsch (SWI), What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes
13.40 - 14.20Raquel Carrasco (ES), Inequality for Wage Earners and Self-Employed: Evidence from Panel Data
14.20 - 15.00Jerome Adda (UK), Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions
15.00 - 15.30Break
Social security
chair Dinand Webbink
15.30 - 16.10Rob Euwals, Marike Knoef and Daniel van Vuuren, The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation, Consequences for the Fiscal Sustainability in an Ageing Society
16.10 - 16.50Matz Dahlberg, The Effects of Work Requirements on Welfare Participation
(with Kajsa Johansson and Eva Mörk)
16.50 - 17.10Break
17.10 - 17.50Rosalia Vazquez-Alvararez, Effects of acute versus chronic health shocks on the retirement decisions of European workers
17.50 - 18.30Sylvie Blasco, The decision to participate in the 2001 French unemployment insurance system An analysis of active labour market programmes non take-up
18.30Management Committee meeting
20.00Dinner
[Restaurant Tampat Senang]
Friday October 26
Employment position and legislation
chair Coen Teulings
9.00 - 9.40Matteo Picchio, Infuences of Recent History on the Early Career Patterns of Young Long-Term Unemployed Workers in Belgium
9.40 - 10.20Andrew Shephard, Equilibrium wage distribution models with differential arrival rates between on the job and off the job offers
10.20 - 11.10Lena Jacobi and Sandra Schaffner, Substitutability of Regular Employment by Marginal Employment - A Heterogeneous Dynamic Labour Demand Approach for Germany
11.10 - 11.30Break
Human capital policies
chair Rob Euwals
11.30 - 12.10Mika Maliranta and Rita Asplund, Hiring and training strategies for skills upgrading to improve firm performance
12.10 - 12.50Suncica Vujic, Pierre Koning and Dinand Webbink, Education and Crime Using Australian Twin Data
13.00Packed lunch

More information: Fred Kypers.