Labour Market Institutions and Labour Market Outcomes:
International Perspectives

Canadian International Labour Network: Second Major Conference

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Unemployment Sessions:

Models of Matching and Consumption

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"

Unemployment in Transition Economies

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"

Labour Market Dynamics

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"

European Labour Markets and the "Rigidity" Debate

Andrew Martin (Harvard University)
"EMU and Wage Bargaining: The Americanization of the European Labor Market?"

Jimmy Royer and Marc Van Audenrode (Universite Laval)
"Job Protection and Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"


Family Sessions:

Family Decisions

Nick Rowe and Frances Woolley (Carleton University)
"The Efficiency Case for Universality"

Pierre-Andre Chiappori (University of Chicago), Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix (Universite 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"

Joint Labour Supply

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"

Intergenerational Income Mobility

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 Bj?rklund (Swedish Institute for Social Research) and Marcus J?ntti (?bo Akademi University, Finland)
"The Impact of the Number of Siblings on Men's Adult Wages: Evidence from Finland, Sweden and the United States"

Child Outcomes

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) and Lori Curtis (Dalhousie University)
"Child Health and Family Socioeconomic Status in the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth"


Wage Sessions:

Displacement in International Context (Jointly Sponsored with Upjohn Institute)

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 University 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"

Karsten Albaek (University of Copenhagen), Martin Browning (McMaster University and Copenhagen), and Marc van Audenrode (Universite Laval)
"Worker Displacement in Belgium and Denmark"

Stephen Bender (Institute for Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung), Christian Dustmann (University College London), David Margolis (Universite de Paris I) and Costas Meghir (University College London)
"Worker Displacement in Germany and France"

Jeff Borland (Australian National University), Paul Gregg (LSE), Genevieve Knight (LSE) and Jonathan Wadsworth (LSE/RHNBC)
"Worker Displacement in Australia and Britain"

Prospects for the Welfare State

Keith Banting (Queen's University)
"The Welfare State and the Politics of Cultural Diversity"

John Myles (Florida State University) and Paul Pierson (Harvard University)
"Restructuring Welfare States: How Nations Are Redesigning Old Age Security Systems"


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