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Registration |
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09:20 |
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Opening Remarks
by the Organizers on the Part of HSE and IZA |
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11:00 |
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Session A: Inequality in Emerging and Post-transition Economies |
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Chair:
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna, NRU HSE and IZA)
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Vladimir Gimpelson (NRU HSE and IZA), Eugenia Chernina (NRU HSE) |
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"Do We Know How Relatively Rich Are We? Actual and Perceived Place in the Income Distribution"
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Discussant:
Fabian Slonimczyk (NRU HSE and IZA)
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Marko Vladisavljevic (Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade) |
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"Wage Inequality between and within Public and Private Sector in Serbia in the Times of Austerity"
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Discussant:
Anna Lukyanova (NRU HSE)
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| 11:00 |
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11:20 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11:20 |
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13:00 |
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Session B: Minimum Wage Determination and Effects |
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Chair:
Fabian Slonimczyk (NRU HSE and IZA)
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Anna Lukyanova (NRU HSE) |
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"Do Minimum Wages Matter for Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Large Increases of Minimum Wage in Russia (2005-2017)"
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Discussant:
Irina Denisova (CEFIR, New Economic School, Moscow)
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Hui Cao (Shanghai University), Qiong Zhang (Renmin University) |
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"Minimum Wage Setting in China: What Factors Matter for Local Governments?"
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Discussant:
Feicheng Wang (University of Göttingen)
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14:00 |
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Lunch |
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16:30 |
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Session C: Education and Labor Market Outcomes |
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Chair:
Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University)
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Kamalbek Karymshakov (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University), Burulcha Sulaimanova (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University) |
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"Education – Job Mismatch and Employment Outcomes of Youth in Kyrgyzstan "
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Discussant:
Anna Yurko (NRU HSE)
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Saizi Xiao (University of Malaya), Niaz Asadullah (University of Malaya and IZA) |
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"The Changing Pattern of Wage Returns to Education in Post-Reform China"
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Discussant:
Hui Cao (Shanghai University)
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Aleksey Oshchepkov (NRU HSE) |
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"What Drives Return to Education: Evidence from Russian Regions"
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Discussant:
Francesco Pastore (Universitŕ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and IZA)
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| 16:30 |
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16:50 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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18:30 |
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Session D: Issues of the Russian Labor Market |
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Chair:
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov (NRU HSE and IMEMO RAS)
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Olga Demidova (NRU HSE), Victoria Mokhova (Rusagro, Moscow) |
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"Spatial Econometric Modeling of Regional Unemployment in Russia: Comparison of Resource-rich and Resource-deficient Regions"
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Discussant:
Aleksey Oshchepkov (NRU HSE)
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Elena Vakulenko (NRU HSE), Evsey Gurvich (Financial Research Institute, Moscow) |
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"Macroeconomic and Structural Properties of the Russian Labor Market: A Cross-country Comparison"
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Discussant:
Ilya Voskoboinikov (NRU HSE)
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Dinner
by invitation only |
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11:00 |
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Session E: Labor Markets in Central European Post-transition Countries |
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Chair:
Francesco Pastore (Universitŕ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and IZA)
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Ewa Galecka-Burdziak (Warsaw School of Economics) |
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"Labor Force Attachment Patterns of Older Unemployed Workers: Analysis of the Transition to Retirement Pathways"
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Discussant:
Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University)
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Peter F. Orazem (Iowa State University and IZA), Suzana Laporšek (University of Primorska), Matija Vodopivec (Iowa State University), Milan Vodopivec (University of Primorska and IZA) |
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"Winners and Losers After 25 Years of Transition: The Case of Slovenia"
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Discussant:
Anna Zudina (NRU HSE)
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| 11:00 |
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11:20 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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13:00 |
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Session F: Migration and the Gender Gap |
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Chair:
Olga Demidova (NRU HSE)
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Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna, NRU HSE and IZA), Sinem Ayhan (University of Münster and IZA), Kseniia Gatskova (Leibniz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg) |
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"The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration in Ukraine"
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Discussant:
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov (NRU HSE and IMEMO RAS)
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Francesco Pastore (Universitŕ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and IZA), Sarosh Sattar (World Bank), Nistha Sinha (World Bank), Erwin R. Tiongson (World Bank and IZA) |
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"When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan’s Labor Market"
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Discussant:
Iga Magda (Warsaw School of Economics and IZA)
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14:00 |
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Lunch |
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15:40 |
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Session G: Issues of Wage Inequality and Labor Supply |
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Chair:
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak (Warsaw School of Economics)
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Iga Magda (Warsaw School of Economics and IZA), Simone Moriconi (IÉSEG School of Management, Paris), Jan Gromadzki (Institute for Structural Research) |
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"Within-firm and Between-firm Drivers of Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe"
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Discussant:
Peter F. Orazem (Iowa State University and IZA)
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Enerelt Murakami (JICA Research Institute), Eiji Yamada (JICA Research Institute), Erica Sioson (Asian Development Bank Institute) |
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"The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Labor Supply in Tajikistan"
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Discussant:
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| 15:40 |
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16:00 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 16:00 |
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17:40 |
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Session H: Political Economy and Cultural Issues of the Labor Market |
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Chair:
Vladimir Gimpelson (NRU HSE and IZA)
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Feicheng Wang (University of Göttingen), Chris Milner (University of Nottingham), Juliane Scheffel (Leeds University) |
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"Labor Market Reform, Firm-level Employment Adjustment and Trade Liberalization"
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Discussant:
Saizi Xiao (University of Malaya)
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Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University), Boontarika Paphawasit (Chiang Mai University) |
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"Beautiful Minds: Physical Attractiveness and Research Productivity in Economics"
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Discussant:
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna, NRU HSE and IZA)
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18:00 |
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Concluding Remarks
by the Organizers |
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