Seventh IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists

Thursday, May 22:

15:30	-	16:00		Welcoming Coffee
16:00				Session I: Schooling Issues
				Chair: Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
16:00	-	16:40		Juanna Schrøter Joensen (University of Chicago and IZA*))
				"Academic and Labor Market Success: The Impact of Student Employment, Abilities, and Preferences"
16:40	-	17:20		Alexander Whalley (University of Calgary*)), Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)
				"The Power of Information: Do U.S. News Rankings Affect the Public Finance of Higher Education?""
17:20	-	18:00		Jane Cooley Fruehwirth (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill*))
				"Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?"
19:00				Dinner

Friday, May 23:

08:30				Session II: Schooling and Education
				Chair: Randall K. Q. Akee (University of California, Los Angeles and IZA)
08:30	-	09:10		Paul J. Devereux (University College Dublin and IZA*)), Sandra Black (UCLA,), Kjell Salvanes (NHH)
				"Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age"
09:10	-	09:50		Olmo Silva (London School of Economics and IZA*))
				"School Quality, Child Happiness and Parents' Satisfaction"
09:50	-	10:30		Timothy J. Halliday (University of Hawaii at Manoa and IZA*))
				"What is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00				Session III: Experiment and Measurement
				Chair: Ana Rute Cardoso (IAE Barcelona (CSIC) and IZA)
11:00	-	11:40		Manuel Bagues (University of Warwick and IZA*)), Berta Esteve-Volart (York University)
				"Top Civil Service: Meritocracy or Nepotism"
11:40	-	12:20		Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA*)), Yingyao Hu (JHU and IZA)
				"Labor Supply Response to Work Incentive Programs: Evidence from Three Randomized Experiments"
12:20	-	13:00		Jay Stewart (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and IZA*)), Matthew Dey (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
				"What are Establishment Fixed Effects?"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch
14:00				Session IV: Immigration
				Chair: Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney and IZA)
14:30	-	15:10		Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers University and IZA*))
				"How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?"
15:10	-	15:50		Patricia Cortes (Boston University and IZA*)), Jose Tessada (MIT)
				"Cheap Maids and Nannies: How Low-skilled Immigration is Changing the Labor Supply of High-skilled American Women"
15:50	-	16:30		Todd A. Sorensen (University of California, Merced and IZA*)), Fernando Lozano (Pomona College)
				"The Labor Market Value to Legal Status"
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, May 24:

08:30				Session V: Market-Wide Impacts
				Chair: Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers University and IZA)
08:30	-	09:10		Sabien Dobbelaere (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA*)), Hervé Boulhol (Université Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne, OECD), Sara Maioli (Newcastle University Business School)
				"Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline"
09:10	-	09:50		Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po, Paris*))
				"Labor Markets with Imperfect Housing Markets"
09:50	-	10:30		Govert Bijwaard (NIDI - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and IZA*)), Justus Veenman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
				"Unequal Risks on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00				Session VI: Conflict and Culture
				Chair: David A. Jaeger (University of St. Andrews and IZA)
11:00	-	11:40		Florence Kondylis (Columbia University*))
				"Conflict Displacement and Labor Market Outcomes in post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina"
11:40	-	12:20		Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney and IZA*)), Juan Baron (Australian National University), Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne)
				"Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitues and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt"
12:20	-	13:50		Lunch
13:50				Session VII: Taxes and Labor Markets
				Chair: Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
13:50	-	14:30		Gulcin Gumus (Florida Atlantic University and IZA*)), Tracy L. Regan (University of Miami)
				"Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed"
14:30	-	15:10		Etienne Lehmann (CRED, Université Panthéon Assas Paris 2 and IZA*)), Alexis Parmentier (EPEE - Université d'Evry), Bruno Van der Linden (IRES - Université Catholique de Louvain)
				"Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Involuntary Unemployment"
15:10	-	15:40		Coffee Break
15:40				Session VIII: Firms
				Chair: Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
15:40	-	16:20		Reija Lilja (Labour Institute for Economic Research*)), Rita Asplund (The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy), Ilpo Suoniemi (The Labour Institute for Economic Research)
				"More than Meets the Eye - Gender Differences in Hierarchical Positions and in Earnings. Lessons from the Finnish Metal Industry"
16:20	-	17:00		Silvio Rendon (Inter-American Development Bank and IZA*)), Giovanna Aguilar (Universidad Catolica del Peru)
				"Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects of Observed Non-Wage Labor Costs"
19:00				Conference Dinner

Sunday, May 25:

				Departure after breakfast