2nd IZA Labor Statistics Workshop: The Returns to Skill in the Labor Market

Thursday, April 26:

08:30	-	08:45		Registration
08:45	-	09:00		Welcome and Introductions
09:00	-	09:45		Damon Morris (University of Sheffield), Andy Dickerson (University of Sheffield)
				"The Changing Demand for Skills in the UK"
09:45	-	10:30		Felix Schran (University of Bonn), Michael J. Böhm (University of Bonn and IZA), Hans-Martin von Gaudecker (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Task Prices, Sector Growth, and Skill Selection: Evidence from a New Estimation Method"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	11:45		Tiago Fonseca (World Maritime University), Francisco Lima (Universidade de Lisboa), Sonia C. Pereira (Barnard College)
				"Job Polarization, Technological Change and Routinization: Evidence for Portugal"
11:45	-	12:30		Giannina Vaccaro (University of California, Irvine)
				"The Role of Literacy and Numeracy Skills Across Gender and Countries"
12:30	-	13:15		Lunch
				Keynote
13:15	-	14:15		John P. Martin (University College Dublin and IZA)
				"Skills for the 21st Century: Findings and Policy Lessons from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills"
14:15	-	15:00		Mark Loewenstein (US Bureau of Labor Statistics), Matt Dey (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
				"On Job Requirements, Skill and Wages"
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:15		Presentation via Skype:
				Alice Klynge (Copenhagen Business School )
				"Changes over Time in the Returns to Creativity, Communication and Other Socio-Emotional Abilities"
16:15	-	17:00		Anne Hilger (Paris School of Economics)
				"Using Self-Assessments and Observations to Capture Non-Cognitive Skills: Insights from a Skills Training Program in Mozambique"
19:00	-	21:00		Dinner

Friday, April 27:

09:00	-	09:45		Elliott Ash (University of Warwick), W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University and IZA)
				"Aging, Retirement and High-Skill Work Performance: The Case of State Supreme Court Judges"
09:45	-	10:30		Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Alexandra Heimisch (Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Simon Wiederhold (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
				"Returns to ICT Skills"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	11:45		Miguel Sarzosa (Purdue University), Pablo Acosta (World Bank and IZA), Noël Muller (World Bank)
				"Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills in Colombia"
11:45	-	12:30		Peter Leighton (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)
				"Intelligence, Work Ethic or Personality? The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills in Latin America"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	14:15		Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver and IZA), Peter J. Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara and IZA), Philip Luck (University of Colorado Denver)
				"Offshoring and Skills Demand"
14:15	-	15:00		Kai Liu (University of Cambridge and IZA), Pedro Carneiro (UCL), Kjell G. Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA)
				"The Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform"
15:00	-	15:30		Concluding Remarks