Labour Market Institutions and Labour Market Outcomes:
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Sunday, Sept. 27 (Concurrent Sessions)9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Coffee and Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: |
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Session A ("Unemployment"): Models of Matching and Consumption
Chair: Stephen Jones (McMaster University) James Albrecht* and Susan Vroman (Georgetown University) "A Matching Model with Endogenous Skill Requirements" Martin Browning* (McMaster University) and Tom Crossley (York
University) "Shocks, Stocks and Socks:
the Timing of the Replacement
of Durables During an Unemployment Spell" |
Session B ("Wages"): Displacement in International Context I (Jointly Sponsored with Upjohn Institute)
Introductory remarks: Randall Eberts (Upjohn Institute) and Peter Kuhn (McMaster University) Chair: Wayne Lewchuk (McMaster University) Masahiro Abe (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo), Yoshio Higuchi (Keio University), Masao Nakamura* (UBC), Peter Kuhn (McMaster), and Arthur Sweetman* (University of Victoria), "Worker Displacement in Canada and Japan" Jaap Abbring*, Gerard van den Berg, and Pieter A. Gautier (Free Univ. of Amsterdam), A. Gijsbert and C. van Lomwel (Tilburg University) and Chris Ruhm* (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
"Worker Displacement in the US and the Netherlands" |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: |
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| Session A ("Unemployment"): Unemployment in Transition Economies
Chair: Audra Bowlus (University of Western Ontario) John Ham* (University of Pittsburgh), Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan) "The Unemployment Duration of Women During the Transition: Evidence From Micro Data in the Czech and Slovak Republics" John Micklewright* (UNICEF) and Gyula Nagy (Budapest University of Economics) "Living Standards and Incentives in Transitions: The Implications of UI Exhaustion in Hungary" |
Session B ("Wages"): Displacement in International Context II (Jointly Sponsored with Upjohn Institute)
Chair: Peter Kuhn (McMaster University) Karsten Albæk* (University of Copenhagen), Martin Browning (McMaster University and Copenhagen), and Marc van Audenrode* (Université Laval): "Worker Displacement in Belgium and Denmark" Stephen Bender (Institute für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung), Christian Dustmann* (University College London), David Margolis* (Université de Paris I) and Costas Meghir (University College London) "Worker Displacement in Germany and France" |
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: |
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| Session A (Family): Family Decisions
Chair: Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie University) Nick Rowe* and Frances Woolley (Carleton University) "The Efficiency Case for Universality" Pierre-Andre Chiappori* (University of Chicago), Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix (Université Laval), "Household Labor Supply, Sharing Rule and the Marriage Market" Aloysius Siow* and Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto) "Differential Fecundity and Gender-Biased Parental Investments" |
Session B : ("Wages") Displacement in International Context III (Jointly Sponsored with Upjohn Institute)
Chair: Randall Eberts (Upjohn Institute) Jeff Borland (Australian National University), Paul Gregg* (LSE), Genevieve Knight (LSE) and Jonathan Wadsworth (LSE/RHNBC), "Worker Displacement in Australia and Britain" Peter Kuhn (McMaster University) Project Overview: A Preliminary Synthesis of Results, followed by a general discussion. |
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Walk in Royal Botanical Gardens (weather permitting)
7:00 p.m.: Conference Dinner.
Monday, Sept. 28 (Concurrent Sessions)9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: |
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| Session A ("Family"): Joint Labour Supply
Chair: tba Michael Baker (University of Toronto) "Joint Retirement: Evidence from the Spouse's Allowance" Heather Antecol (McMaster University) and Thomas Crossley* (York University)"Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance and Spousal Labour Supply" Paul Gregg (LSE) and Stephen Machin* (University College London and LSE) "Child Development and Success or Failure in the Labour Market" |
Session B ("Wages"): "Prospects for the Welfare State"
Robert O'Brien (McMaster University) Keith Banting (Queen's University) "The Welfare State and the Politics of Cultural Diversity" John Myles (Florida State University) "Restructuring Welfare States: How Nations Are Redesigning Old Age Security Systems" |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: |
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| Session A ("Family"): Intergenerational Income Mobility
Chair: Martin Browning (McMaster University) Miles Corak (Statistics Canada) Death and Divorce: The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Loss Laura Nelson Chadwick and Gary Solon* (University of Michigan) "Intergenerational Income Mobility among Daughters in the United States" Anders Björklund* (Swedish Institute for Social Research) and Marcus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) "The Impact of the Number of Siblings on Men's Adult Wages: Evidence from Finland, Sweden and the United States" |
Session B ("Unemployment"): Labour Market Dynamics
Chair: Jim Albrecht (Georgetown University) Stephen Jones* (McMaster University) and W. Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia) "The Dynamics of Labour Force Attachment in the US Labour Market" Gerard J. van den Berg* and Geert Ridder (Free University of
Amsterdam) "Estimating Measures of Labor
Market Imperfections for
Five OECD Countries, Using Aggregate Data and an Equilibrium Search
Framework" Audra Bowlus* and Shannon N. Seitz (University of Western Ontario) "Search Frictions in the U.S. Labor Market: Equilibrium Estimates from the PSID" |
3:30 - 5:30: |
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| Session A ("Family"): Child Outcomes
Chair: Arthur Sweetman (University of Victoria) John Micklewright* (UNICEF) and Kitty Stewart "Is Child Welfare Converging in the European Union?" Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie University) "Outcomes for Children in Canada, Norway, and the US: A Microdata Comparison" Martin Dooley* (McMaster University), Lori Curtis (Dalhouise University), Ellen Lipman and David Feeny (McMaster University) "The Role of Income, Family Structure and Parental Market Work in the Determination of Child Health in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth" |
Session B ("Unemployment"): European Labour Markets and the "Rigidity" Debate
Chair: Chris McKenna (University of Guelph) Andrew Martin (Harvard University) "EMU and Wage Bargaining:
The Americanization of the European Labor Market?" Jimmy Royer and Marc Van Audenrode* (Université Laval) "Job Protection and Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" |
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