X “BRUCCHI LUCHINO” WORKSHOP – 15-16 December 2011

28th November 2011 di Brucchi Luchino

 

X “BRUCCHI LUCHINO”
LABOUR ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

15-16 December, 2011

hosted by:
Bank of Italy
Via Nazionale 91, Rome

 

Thursday December 15th, 2011

9.00-9.30 Arrival and welcome

Chair: Daniele Checchi

9.30-10.20 Valentina Conti  (University of Tor Vergata)
The role of parental cognitive aging in the intergenerational mobility of cognitive abilities (with Joanna Kopinska)

10.20-11.10 Leandro D’Aurizio (Bank of Italy)
Family Firms and the Great Recession: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? (with Livio Romano)

Coffee Break

11.10-12.10  Poster session

Plamen Nikolov (Harvard University)
Sonia Oreffice (University of Alicant)
Ija Trapeznikova (Royal Holloway)
Climent Quintana Domeque (University of Alicant)
Svetlana Katolnik (University of Hannover)

12.10-13.00 Margherita Fort (University of Bologna)
The Causal Effect of Education on Health:What is the Role of Health Behaviors (with Giorgio Brunello, Nicole Schneeweis and Rudolf Winter Ebmer)

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Chair: Giorgio Brunello

14.30-15.20 Kelly Ragan (Stockholm School of Economics)
How Powerful Was the Pill? Quantifying a Contraceptive Technology Shock

15.20-16.10 Michele Pellizzari (Bocconi University)
Liberalizing Professional Services: Evidence from Italian Lawyers (with Giovanni Pica)

Coffee Break

16.30-17.20 Maurizio Conti (University of Genova)
Human Capital, Employment Protection and Growth in Europe

17.20-18.10 Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting (with Francesco Devicienti)

20.00 Dinner


Friday December 16th, 2010

Chair: Andrea Ichino

9.00-9.50 Jan Peter aus dem Moore (Humbolt University)
Bye Bye, G.I. – The Impact of the U.S. Military Drawdown on Local German Labor Markets, with Alexandra Spitz Oener

9.50-10:40 Christoph Weiss (University of Padova)
The Effects of Schooling on Lifetime Earnings (with Giorgio Brunello and Guglielmo Weber)

10.40-11.30  Massimiliano Bratti (University of Milan)
On the pro-trade effects of immigrants, with Luca De Benedictis and Gianluca Santoni

Coffee Break

11.50-13.00 Keynote address: The Returns to Majors, Ian Walker (Lancaster University)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Poster session:

Fabio Losa (Statistical office Canton Ticino)
Fabrizio Mazzonna (University of Rome)
Alessia Lo Turco (Università delle Marche)
Marco Magnani (University of Parma)
Gabriele Cardullo (University of Genova)

Chair:  Claudio Lucifora

15.00-15.50 Martin Ljunge  (University of Copenaghen)
Was Banfield Right? Family Ties and Civic Virtues

15:50 – 16:40 Marco Tonello (Catholic University of Milan)
Peer effects between native and non-native students: mechanisms and evidence

Scientific Committee: Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi, Andrea Ichino, Claudio Lucifora and Alfonso Rosolia

Local organization: Alfonso Rosolia, Alessandra Piccinini

9.30-10.20 Valentina Conti (University of Tor Vergata)

The role of parental cognitive aging in the intergenerational mobility of cognitive abilities (with Joanna Kopinska)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XI Brucchi Luchino Workshop – 16-17 December, 2010

8th December 2010 di Brucchi Luchino


IX “BRUCCHI LUCHINO”
LABOUR ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

16-17 December, 2010

hosted by:
Department of Economics
University of Padova, Archivio Antico

Thursday December 16th, 2010

9.30-10.00 Arrival and welcome

10.00-10.50 Martin Ljunge (University of Copenhagen)
Sick of Taxes? Sick Leave, Effort, Well-Being, and Taxes

10.50-11.40 Francesco D’Amuri (Bank of Italy and University of Essex)
Monitoring vs. monetary incentives in addressing absenteeism: experimental evidence

11.40-12.00    Coffee Break

12.00-12.50    Lorenzo Rocco (University of Padova)
The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: the Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

12.50-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.50    Concetta Rondinelli (Bank of Italy)
(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply

14.50-15.40    Eliana Viviano (Bank of Italy)
Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers. New evidence and a critical assessment of the literature

15.40-16.30    Ervin Drifti (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform

16.30   Coffee Break

16.30-17.30    Poster session

Francesco Arzilli (University of Pisa and Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom)
Housing Tenure and Job Search Behaviour. A Different Analysis of the Impact of the UK Jobseeker’s Allowance

Maria De Paola (University of Calabria)
Consumers’ Reactions to Negative Information on Product Quality: Evidence from Scanner Data

Jacopo Mazza (University of Amsterdam)
Separating risk in education from heterogeneity: a semi-parametric approach.

Giuseppe Rose (University of Calabria)
Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market. A Theory and an Investigation using Unemployment Spells’ Duration

17.30-18.20    Marc Sangnier (Paris School of Economics)
Senior activity rate, retirement incentives, and labor relations

20.00 Dinner


Friday December 17th, 2010

9.00-9.50        Arcangelo Dimico (University of Nottingham)
Slavery, Education, and Inequality

9.50-10.40      Margherita Fort (University of Bologna)
Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on PERformance, COoperation and COmpetition

10.40-11.00    Coffee Break

11.00-11.50    Elena Cottini (Catholic University, Milano)
Mental Health and Working Conditions in European countries

11.50-12.40    Laura Fumagalli (ISER, University of Essex)
All in the Family British Style: Does Family Smoking Cause British Youth to Smoke?

12.40-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00    Keynote address: Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics)
The Making of Modern America: Migratory Inflows and Outflows in the Age of Mass Migration

15.00   Coffee Break

15.00-16.00  Poster session

Michela Braga (University of Milan)
Evaluating Students’ Evaluations

Carlo Fiorio(University of Milan)
Immigration and natives’ skill upgrade

Marco Leonardi(University of Milan)
The effect of 3+2 on the graduate labor market: demand and supply

Nicola Meccheri (University of Pisa)
Industry profits, wages and competition under incentive labour contracts with unverifiable effort

16.00-16.50    Veronica Toffoluti (University of Padova)
The Implications of Changing Employment Protection: Evaluating the 1999 UK Unfair Dismissal Reform

Scientific Committee: Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi, Andrea Ichino, Claudio Lucifora and Alfonso Rosolia

Local organization: Francesca Fiocco and Giovanna Labartino

With the financial support of the Department of Economics, University of Padova