A workshop on applied policy evaluation, with a focus on dynamic issues and
duration modelling
14 – 15 June 2012
Programme
DAY 1
10.30
Registration
Welcome
11.00
Session 1. Disability and work. Chair: Peter Haan, DIW
Early Interventions and disability Insurance
11.10
11.50
Do working-capacity test increase long-term
sick-listed employees’ probability of
returning to 7work?
12.30
Lunch
Session 2. Active labour market policies. Chair: Mike Daly
13.15
What Active Labour Market Policy Works in
A Recession?
Mike Brewer
Per Johansson
Jan Høgelund
Anders Forslund
13.55
The Effect of Sanctions and Active Labour
Nisar Ahmad
Market
14.35
Break
Session 3. Structural models and policy evaluation. Chair: Mike Brewer
14.50
The design of unemployment transfers:
Evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle
model
15.30
Victoria Prowse
Labour supply of mothers with young
children
16.10
Walk to UCL
Invited lecture at UCL. Chair: John Ham
Katharina Wrohlich
16.30
Structural and Reduced Form Policy Effects
Michael Keane
18.00
Finish
DAY 2
9.15
Tea and coffee
Session 1. Young adults, education and staying-on rates. Chair: Carole Willis
9.30
Snakes and ladders in the youth labour
market
Richard Dorsett
10.10
School absenteeism and dropout: a
Bayesian duration model
Kristof De Witte
10:50
The Education Maintenance Allowance
in the 2008 Recession
11.30
break
Session 2. TBA. Chair: Per Johannson
11.50
Jack Britton
A Comparison of Methods for Estimating John Ham
Dynamic Training Effects
12.30
Heterogeneity in the unemployment risk Carolina Fugazza
over the life cycle
13.10
Lunch
Session 3. Employment subsidies and Job Search Assistance. Chair: Mike Daly/Mike
Brewer
13.55
Optimal design of employment
subsidies: Swedish evidence using
policy discontinuities
Johan Vikström
14.35
The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of
Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Close
Arne Uhlendorff
15.15