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23rd IZA Summer School in Labor Economics

Organizers: Dan A. Black (University of Chicago and IZA), Andreas Lichter (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and IZA)
Location:Buch/Ammersee, Germany
Date:May 23, 2022 - May 27, 2022

Event Manager:

Viola Hartmann (IZA)



Program

The organizers would like to thank the DFG SPP 1764 – The German Labor Market in a Globalized World – for financial support.


+++ lectures: 90 minutes +++
+++ student presentations: 25 minutes +++ floor discussions: 10 minutes +++

Monday, May 23:

 
12:00 - 14:00   Open Lunch
 
 
14:30 - 14:45   Welcome Address

Dan A. Black (University of Chicago and IZA)
Andreas Lichter (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and IZA)
 
 
        Lecture 1
 
14:45 - 16:15   Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
"Selected Topics in the Economics of Crime: Prisons, Juries (and More)"
 
 
16:15 - 16:30   Coffee Break
 
 
        Lecture 2
 
16:30 - 18:00   Seth Sanders (Cornell University and IZA)
"Theory, Estimation and Applications of Finite Mixture Models"
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Tuesday, May 24:

 
        Lecture 3
 
09:00 - 10:30   Seth Sanders (Cornell University and IZA)
"Theory, Estimation and Applications of Finite Mixture Models"
 
 
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break
 
 
10:45 - 12:30   Student Presentations: Session 1
 
    Lukas Delgado-Prieto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  "The Role of Workers and Firms in the Impact of Immigration"
 
    Pia Schilling (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Lisa Sofie Höckel (RWI - Leibniz Institute of Economic Research, IZA)
  "Starting Off on the Right Foot - Integrative Schooling and the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in Primary School"
 
    Camille Remigereau (Humboldt University Berlin)
  "The Impact of Forced Migrants’ Political Preferences in Receiving Areas: Evidence from the French Algerians’ Repatriation"
 
 
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
 
 
        Lecture 4
 
14:00 - 15:30   Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
"Selected Topics in the Economics of Crime: Prisons, Juries (and More)"
 
 
15:30 - 15:45   Coffee Break
 
 
15:45 - 17:30   Student Presentations: Session 2
 
 
    Gökay Demir (RWI)
  "Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages"
 
    Lukas Lehner (University of Oxford), Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
  "Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program"
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Wednesday, May 25:

 
        Lecture 5
 
09:00 - 10:30   Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
"Selected Topics in the Economics of Crime: Prisons, Juries (and More)"
 
 
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break
 
 
10:45 - 12:30   Student Presentations: Session 3
 
    Alberto Marcato (Bocconi University)
  "Lights and Shadows of Employer Concentration: On-the-Job Training and Wages"
 
    Giulia Vattuone (University of Warwick)
  "Worker Sorting and the Gender Wage Gap"
 
    Tobias Lehmann (University of Lausanne)
  "How Wages and Non-Wage Values Shape Inequality"
 
 
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
 
 
 
13:30 - 19:00   Social Event
 
 
 
19:30       Dinner
 
 

Thursday, May 26:

 
        Lecture 6
 
09:00 - 10:30   Seth Sanders (Cornell University and IZA)
"Theory, Estimation and Applications of Finite Mixture Models"
 
 
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break
 
 
10:45 - 12:30   Student Presentations: Session 4
 
    Mikkel Mertz (Queen Mary, University of London)
  "The Market for Crime"
 
    Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University)
  "Killing Our Future: The Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of School Shootings on Labor-Market Outcomes"
 
    Alice Dominici (European University Institute)
  "The Medieval Origins of Catholic Political Preferences"
 
 
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
 
 
        Lecture 7
 
14:00 - 15:30   Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
"Selected Topics in the Economics of Crime: Prisons, Juries (and More)"
 
 
15:30 - 15:45   Coffee Break
 
 
15:45 - 16:55   Student Presentations: Session 5
 
    Arnim Seidlitz (Humboldt University Berlin), Bernd Fitzenberger (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA)
  "New Evidence on the 2007 Parental Benefits Reform in Germany: Selection and Reform Effects"
 
    Mikko Silliman (Harvard University), Juuso Mäkinen (Aalto University)
  "Childcare, Social Skills and the Labor Market"
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Friday, May 27:

 
        Lecture 8
 
09:00 - 10:30   Seth Sanders (Cornell University and IZA)
"Theory, Estimation and Applications of Finite Mixture Models"
 
 
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break
 
 
10:45 - 11:55   Student Presentations: Session 6
 
    Mareen Bastiaans (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam and IZA)
  "Scarred for Life: Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession for Low and High Educated"
 
    Felix Grimm (Heidelberg University), Christina Gathmann (LISER, University of Luxembourg and CEPR)
  "The Diffusion of Digital Technologies and its Consequences in the Labor Market"
 
 
12:00       Lunch and Departure