labor market flows, productivity and wage dynamics:
ideas and results from empirical research on employer-employee linked
longitudinal databases
September 14-15, 2007
Collegio Carlo
Alberto, Moncalieri (Torino)
Program
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Friday
14 September
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8.45-9.00
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Registration
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9.00-9.30
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Conference
Opening
Bruno
Contini (University
of Torino and Laboratorio R. Revelli)
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9.30-10.30
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Invited
Paper
An
Empirical Model of Growth through Product Innovation
Dale Mortensen (Northwestern
University), Lentz Rasmus (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee break
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11.00-11.40
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Structural Estimation
of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Hard Enough?
Pieter A.
Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute, CEPR), José
Luis Moraga-González (University
of Groningen), Ronald P. Wolthoff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Tinbergen Institute)
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11.40-12.20
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Workers
and Firm Sorting into Temporary Jobs
Fabio Berton (University
of Torino and Laboratorio R. Revelli), Pietro Garibaldi
(University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
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12.20-13.00
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Productivity and the Age
Composition of Work Teams: Evidence from the Assembly Line
Axel
Börsch-Supan (MEA, Universität Mannheim,
Germany
and NBER), Ismail Düzgün(MEA, Universität Mannheim,
Germany),
and Matthias Weiss (MEA, Universität Mannheim, Germany)
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-15.30
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Invited
Paper
The
Establishment-Level Behavior of Hiring and Vacancies
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
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15.30-16.10
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Fringe
Attraction, Compensation Policies, Worker Turnover and Firm Performance
Harald Dale-Olsen (Institute
for Social Research Oslo)
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16.10-16.30
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Coffee break
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16.30-17.10
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Skill
Dispersion and Firm Productivity: an Analysis with Employer-Employee
Matched Data
Susana Iranzo
(University of Sydney), Fabiano Schivardi (University
of Cagliari, CRENoS and CEPR), Elisa Tosetti (Cambridge University)
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17.10-17.50
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The Cost
of Job Displacement in Italy
Francesco Serti
(LEM-Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant’Anna School of
Advanced Studies, Pisa)
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17.50-18.30
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Wage
Dispersion and Self-Employment: Evidence from the Abolition of the
Scala Mobile in Italy
Franck
Malherbet (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, EUREQua and CREST), Michele Pellizzari (IGIER-Bocconi, IZA and FRDB), Marco
Velentini (Cà Foscari University of Venice)
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Saturday 15
September
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9.00-9.40
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Job
Flows Across U.S.
States
Daniele Coen-Pirani (Carnegie Mellon
University, Tepper School
of Business), Yoonsoo Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
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9.40-10.20
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Econometric
Explorations on Bounded Rationality: the Case of Job Changing Behaviour
Bruno
Contini (University
of Torino and Laboratorio R. Revelli), Matteo Morini (University of
Torino and Laboratorio R. Revelli)
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10.20-11.00
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Performance
Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
Tuomas
Pekkarinen (Uppsala
University),
Chris Riddell (Queen's University)
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee break
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11.30-13.00
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Poster Session
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13.00-14.00
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Lunch
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14.00-15.00
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Invited
Paper
From
Micro to Macro: Determining the Impact of Wage Rigidity from the
Behavior of Firms and Workers
William Dickens (The
Brookings Institution)
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15.00-15.40
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Temporary
Jobs: Port of Entry, Trap, or Just Unobserved Heterogeneity?
Fabio Berton, Francesco
Devicienti and Lia Pacelli (University of Torino and
Laboratorio R. Revelli)
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15.40-16.10
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Coffee break
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16.10-16.50
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The
Effect of Extended Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market
Programme for Dismissed Workers
Adriano Paggiaro, Enrico
Rettore and Ugo Trivellato (Dipartimento di Scienze
Statistiche Università di Padova)
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16.50-17.30
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Wages,
Productivity and Aging
Benoit Dostie (Institute
of applied economics, HEC Montreal)
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Poster session
Jesper Bagger (U Aarhus), François Fontaine (U
Strasbourg 3),
Fabien
Postel-Vinay (U Paris 1, Bristol U), Jean-Marc Robin (U Paris 1, UCL)
The
Importance of Financial Incentives on Retirement Choices: New Evidence
from WHIP Data
Michele Belloni (CeRP, Collegio Carlo Alberto), R. Alessie (Utrecht
University, NETSPAR)
Transitions
out of Subsidized Employment
Bianca Buligescu, Lex Borghans
(Graduate School of governance; Department of Economics, Maastricht
University)
Inga
Freund and Alexia Prskawetz (Vienna
Institute of Demography, Austria)
and Bernhard Mahlberg (Institute for Industrial Research, Vienna)
Elena
Giarda (Prometeia) and University of Bologna
Lia Pacelli (University of Turin and LABORatorio R.
Revelli),
Silvia Pasqua (University of Turin and CHILD)
Claudia Villosio (LABORatorio R. Revelli and R&P)
Giovanni Sulis (University of Cagliari, University of Essex, Crenos)
All contributed
papers have
been selected by an ad hoc Committee formed by:
Erich Battistin
(Department of
Statistics, University of Padova and UCL), Giovanni Mastrobuoni
(Collegio Carlo
Alberto) and Gianluca Violante (New York University)
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