Recent and Upcoming Seminars

• September 26 to September 28, 2001 Peter Diamond (MIT)
  
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor


• Friday March 23, 2001 Emmanuel Saez (Harvard)

Topic: Optimal Income Transfer Programs:
Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses (NBER wp 7708)
Host: Mike Veall (KTH 334 3:00 - 4:30 pm)
(joint McMaster/CILN/SEDAP workshop)


• Wednesday March 21, 2001 Louise Grogan (McMaster/CILN)

Topic: A Matching Model of Skills-Biased Technological Change in Dual Labour Markets
Host/Discussant: Stephen Jones (KTH 334 3:00 - 4:30 pm)
(CILN workshop)


• Friday March 16, 2001 Phil Oreopoulos (UC Berkeley)
  
Topic: Correlations in Long Run Labour Market Outcomes
Between Brothers and Boys from the Same Public Housing Project
Host: Martin Dooley (KTH 334 3:00 - 4:30 pm)
(joint McMaster/CILN seminar)


• Friday January 26, 2001 Ronnie Schoeb (Munich, visiting UWO)
  
Topic: "Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions.
Worker Mobility, Earning Risks, and Contract Structure"
Hosts: Kate Cuff, Mike Veall (KTH 334 3:00 - 4:30 pm)
(joint McMaster/CILN seminar)


• Friday January 12, 2001 Todd Stinebrickner (Western)
  
Topic: "The Relationship Between Family Income and Schooling Attainment:
Evidence from a Liberal Arts College with a Full Tuition Subsidy"
Hosts: Mike Veall (KTH 334 3:00 - 4:30 pm)
(joint McMaster/CILN seminar)



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Past Seminars

• Friday November 24, 2000 Jeff Smith (University of Western Ontario)

Topic: "The Performance of Alternative Non-Experimental Estimators: A Simulation Study"
Host: Martin Dooley (joint McMaster/CILN seminar)
 
• Friday November 3, 2000 Casey Mulligan (Chicago)

Topic: "A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions"
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN/SEDAP seminar)
 
• Wednesday, November 1, 2000 John DeNew (DIW, Berlin)

Topic: "Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling"
http://www.iza.org/publications/discussion_paper/dp146.pdf
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN workshop)
 
• Friday October 13, 2000 Ted McDonald (University of Tasmania)

Topic: "Displaced Workers in Australia: Business Cycle Effects and Structural Change"
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN seminar)
 
• Wednesday October 11, 2000  Myeong-Su Yun (University of Western Ontario)

Topic: "Full and Part-Time Wage Differentials and Female Labour Supply:
Discontinuous Budget Constraint and Endogenous Wages"
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN seminar)


• Friday September 22, 2000 Deborah Cobb-Clark (Australian National University)

Topic: " Old Age Support in Indonesia: Labour Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements"
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN/SEDAP seminar)


• Wednesday September 13, 2000 Steven Kennedy (ANU)

Topic: "Immigrant Mental Health and Unemployment: A Study of Immigrants and Their Families"
Host: Mike Veall (joint McMaster/CILN/SEDAP seminar)


• Monday July 24, 2000 Tom Crossley (York/ANU/CILN)

"How Far Can We Get With Repeated Cross Sections?"


• Tuesday May 30, 2000 John Helliwell (UBC)

"The Brain Drain"


• Friday May 26, 2000 Martin Browning (Copenhagen, McMaster)

"Children and Consumption"


• Wednesday May 24, 2000 Tom Crossley (York/ANU/CILN)

"Instrumental Variables Methods for Panel Data"


• Friday May 12, 2000 Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara/CILN)

"Internet and Traditional Job Search Methods, 1994-1999"


• Wednesday May 10, 2000 Pierre Leger (University of Western Ontario and HEC, University of Montreal)

"Parental Illness and the Labour Supply of Adult Children"
Host: Mike Veall (joint CILN/SEDAP seminar)


• Friday April 28, 2000 Caroline M. Hoxby (Harvard University)

"Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?"
Host: Stephen Jones


• Friday April 14, 2000 Robert Shimer  (Princeton University)

"The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Markets"
Host: Stephen Jones


• Wednesday, April 12, 2000  Stephen Jones  (CILN/McMaster)

"Unemployment and Labour Force Attachment: New Results for Canada 1997-1999"
 
• Wednesday March 29, 2000  Allen Zeesman  (Human Resources Development Canada)

"Social Exclusion: The Changing Nature of Poverty in Canada"
Host:  Martin Dooley


• Wednesday March 15, 2000 Mikal Skuterud  (CILN/McMaster)

"The Impact of Sunday Shopping Deregulation on Employment
and Hours of Work in the Retail Industry:  Evidence from Canada"
 
• Monday February 21, 2000  Louise Grogan  (Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam)

"Worker Flows in Russia"
Host:  Stephen Jones
 
• Wednesday February 16, 2000  Isaac Rischall  (CILN/McMaster)

"Who Studies in High School?"

• Tuesday December 14, 1999  Martin Dooley  (McMaster/CILN)

"Does Mother (or Father) Know Best?
An Assessment of Parent/Child Agreement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth NLSCY"
 
• December 8, 1999  Susan Johnson  (CILN/McMaster)

"Legal Versus 'Economic' Factors in the Growth and Decline of Unions:
A Stock-Flow Analysis of Canada and the US"
 
• November 22, 1999  Robert Fairlie  (University of California-Santa Cruz)

"Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance"
Host:  Stephen Jones
 
• November 19, 1999  Guy Lacroix  (Laval University)

"Multi-state, Multi-episode Transition Models of Welfare Participation in Quebec"
Host:  Martin Dooley
 
• October 29, 1999  Alexandra Minicozzi  (University of Texas-Austin) (Joint Department/CILN seminar)

"Nonparametric Analysis of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Daughters"
Host:  Isaac Rischall
 
• October 27,1999  Tom Crossley  (Australian National University)

"What Cross Sectional Data Tell Us About Benefit Adequacy"
Hosts: John Burbidge and Mike Veall
 
• August 6, 1999  John DeNew  (German Institute for Economic Research/German Socio Economic Panel)

"Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential"
Host:  Mike Veall
 
• July 21, 1999  Susan Johnson  (McMaster University)

"Automatic Certification or Mandatory Representation Votes?
How the choice of union recognition procedure affects union certification success"
 
• June 1, 1999  Garry Barrett  (University of New South Wales)

"The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Earnings"
Host:  Peter Kuhn and Mike Veall
 
• May 31, 1999  Chris Worswick  (University of Melbourne)

"A Structural Model of Child Labour Supply: Evidence from Micro Data for Nepal and Pakistan"
Host:  Peter Kuhn and Mike Veall
 
• March 12, 1999  Leora Friedberg  (University of California, San Diego and NBER)

"The Impact of Technological Change on Older Workers"
Host:  Mike Veall

• March 5, 1999  Julie Berry Cullen  (University of Michigan)

"Fiscal Incentives and Student Disability Rates"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• January 20, 1999  Isaac Rischall  (CILN/McMaster)

"The Returns on Human Capital Investment for the Marginal Worker: Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project"
 
• January 13, 1999  Adrienne ten Cate  (CILN/McMaster)

"Labour Market Effects of Maternity and Parental Leave Policies in Canada"
 
• December 1, 1998  Nicole Fortin  (Université de Montréal)

"Gender Composition and Wages: Why is Canada Different from the United States?"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• November 25, 1998  Daniel Parent  (McGill University)

"Job Characteristics and the Form of Compensation"
Host:  Peter Kuhn and Mike Veall
 
• November 20, 1998  Dan Trefler  (University of Toronto)

"The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: An Assessment for Canadian Manufacturing"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• November 18, 1998  Tom Crossley  (York University and CILN)

"The Life Time Costs of Job Displacement"
Host:  Mike Veall
 
• October 14, 1998  Charles Blackorby  (University of British Columbia)

"Tax and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs"
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor
 
• September 17, 1998  John McCallum  (Chief Economist, Royal Bank of Canada)

"Global Economic Conditions and Canada"
 
• September 11, 1998  Isaac Rischall  (CILN/McMaster)

"The Roles of Skill, Education and Parental Income in Determining Wages"
 
• May 6, 1998  Herb Schuetze  (McMaster University)

"Self-Employment in Canada: An Analysis of Transitions"
 
• April 24, 1998  Deborah Cobb-Clark  (Australia National University)

"Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning about Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• April 1, 1998  Lars Vilhuber  (York University)

"Sector-specific On-the-job Training: Evidence from U.S. Data"
 Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• March 17 - 19, 1998   David Card   (University of California, Berkeley & CILN)

Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor
• March 17 "School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of Student Achievement"
• March 18 "First and Second Generation Immigrants in the 1940's, the 1970's, and the 1990's"
• March 19   "From Welfare to Work: New Findings from the Self Sufficiency Demonstration Project in British Columbia and New Brunswick" Public Lecture
• February 20, 1998  Thomas Bauer  (Munich/Rutgers)

"Immigrant Labor, Work Organization, and Workplace Safety"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• January 30, 1998  Brian Levine  (Cornell University)

 "Increased Unionization Under Multiple-Union Solicitation in Certification Elections: An Analysis of Competing Explanations"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• January 16, 1998  Isaac Rischall  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"The Effect of Migration on Earnings and Welfare Benefit Receipt"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• November 26, 1997  John Haisken-DeNew  (German Institute for Economic Research, German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) and Syracuse University)

"Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• November 17, 1997  Julian Betts  (University of California at San Diego)

"School Spending and Students' Labour Market Success: Is There a Link?: Fresh Scrutiny of an Old Literature"
CILN Public Lecture
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• November 12, 1997  Jennifer Stewart  (McMaster University)

"The Duration of Spells On Welfare and Off-Welfare Among Lone Mothers in Ontario"
 
• November 5, 1997  Francine Blau  (Cornell University)

"A New Look at the Gender Pay Gap: The Role of Wage Structure" CILN Public Lecture
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• October 29, 1997  Kelly Bedard  (McMaster University)

"Educational Streaming, Occupational Choice, and the Distribution of Earnings"
 
• October 17, 1997  Shelley Phipps  (Dalhousie University & CILN)

 "Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits in Canada: Implications of the Switch from UI to EI"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• October 15, 1997  Heather Antecol  (McMaster University)

"Why is there Cross Country Variation in the Gender Wage Gap? The Role of Culture"
 
• October 10, 1997  Jeff Borland  (Australian National University & CILN)

"Computer Knowledge and Earnings: Evidence for Australia"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• October 8, 1997  Martin Dooley  (McMaster University & CILN)

 "Lone Female Headship and Welfare Policy in Canada"
 
• October 6, 1997  David Margolis  (Université de Paris 1)

"Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States"
Host: Peter Kuhn
 
• October 1, 1997  Alan Harrison  (McMaster University & CILN)

"Testing for Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wage Rates: Evidence from Contract Data"
 
• May 14, 1997  JoAnn Kingston-Riechers  (McMaster University)

"Does Economic Status Affect the Frequency of Domestic Violence?"
 
• April 9, 1997  Martin Browning  (McMaster University & CILN)

"Socks or Stocks: Consumption Smoothing and Durables Replacement During an Unemployment Spell"
 
• April 4, 1997  Keith Banting  (Queen's University & CILN)

"Globalization and Canada's Social Contract: Have We Lost Our Independence?"
The Jack and Kay Graham Memorial Lecture
 
• February 5, 1997  Herb Schuetze  (McMaster University)

"The Re-Emergence of Self Employment: A Canada-U.S. Comparison"
 
• January 24, 1997  Eric Hanushek  (Rochester)

"Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations"
 Host:  Kelly Bedard
 
• December 11, 1996  Heather Antecol  (McMaster University)

"Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market"
 
• December 4, 1996  Kelly Bedard  (CILN)

"Acquiring Skills and Insurance through Education"
 
• November 27, 1996  Jennifer Stewart  (McMaster University)

"Illness and Unemployment Spells"
 
• November 22, 1996  Annamaria Lusardi  (Dartmouth College)

"The Wealth Accumulation of Different Cohorts: a Panel Analysis"
Host:  Martin Browning
 
• November 13, 1996  Eric Smith (Essex and McMaster)

"The Low Skill Trap"
 
• November 1, 1996  Eric Smith (Essex and McMaster)

"The Effects of Intermediation on the Buy or Make Decision"
 
• June 20, 1996  Bob Gregory  (Australian National University)

"The Economic Progress of Women in a Regulated Labour Market" CILN Public Lecture
 Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• June 18, 1996  Bob Gregory  (Australian National University)

"The Macro Economy and the Growth of Income and Employment Inequality in Australian Cities"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• May 8, 1996  Kelly Bedard  (Queen's University)

"School Quality and the Distribution of Male Earnings in Canada"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• May 1, 1996  Coen Teulings  (University of Amsterdam)

"Corporatist Wage Setting in Models of Surplus Sharing"
 Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• April 30, 1996  Coen Teulings  (University of Amsterdam)

 "A Generalized Assignment Model of Workers to Jobs for the US Economy"
Host:  Peter Kuhn
 
• April 18, 1996  David Green  (UBC & CILN)

"Trends in Earnings Inequality Among the Self-Employed"
 Host:  Peter Kuhn

Default place and times: all Friday seminars at 3:00pm - 4:30pm in KTH 334; all Wednesday seminars at 12:30pm - 1:30pm in KTH 334. Please contact designated host regarding meeting with the visitor, participating in dinners etc. The Economics Department Seminar Schedule has a complete list of seminars at McMaster.