PARALLEL SESSIONS A
(Thursday 14 June 11:00-13:00)
SESSION A1: DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
A1.1 "Inequality Indices and Robustness" by Alexandra Livada (Athens University of Economics and
Business)
ABSTRACT
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A1.2 Women’s Work and Income Distribution in European Countries" by Silvia Pasqua (University of
Torino)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
A1.3 "Household Structure and Income Inequality" by Andrea Brandolini and D Giovanni d' Alessio (Bank
of Italy)
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A1.4 "Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution" by Daniela del Boca
(University of Torino ) and Silvia Pasqua (University of Torino)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Daniela del Boca (University of Torino)
SESSION A2: POVERTY I
A2.1 "Outcomes for Children of Poverty" by John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
A2.2 "Reducing Child Poverty in Europe: What Can Static Microsimulation Models Tell Us?" by Holly
Sutherland (University of Cambridge)
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PAPER
A2.3 "Household Strategies of Coping with Poverty and Social Exclusion in Post-crisis Russia" by Michael
M. Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank)
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PAPER
A2.4 "Dynamic Analysis of the Relationship Between Income Poverty and Deprivation: A Comparative
Perspective" by Didier Fouarge and Ruud Muffels (Tilburg University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
A2.5 "Why are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective" by
Stephen P. Jenkins (University of Essex) and Christian Schluter (University of Bristol)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Stephen P. Jenkins (University of Essex)
SESSION A3: RETIREMENT 1
A3.1 "Should I Pay for You or For Myself?" The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit
Systems by Bernard M. S. van Praag and Pedro Cardoso (University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen
Institute)
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PAPER
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A3.2 "Retirement in Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Families" by Erik Hernaes, Zhiyang Jia and Steinar
Strom (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)
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NOT AVAILABLE
A3.3 "Pay-as-you-go Pensions in a Portfolio Problem: Fixed Contribution Rates vs. Fixed Replacement
Rates Reconsidered" by Andreas Wagener (University of Siegen)
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PAPER
A3.4 "Fertility Decisions and the Sustainability of Defined Benefit Pay-as-you-go Pension Systems" by
Miriam Steurer (Washington University)
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PAPER
A3.5 "Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a DC Pension System: The Role of Demography and Indexation"
by Agneta Kruse (Lund University)
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NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Agneta Kruse (Lund University)
SESSION A4: MIGRATION I
A4.1 "Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education" by Eliakim Katz (York
University, Toronto) and Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
A4.2 "On the Law of Return in Rural-urban Interactions: An Economic Rationale for Solidarity with
Return Migrants" by Carine Drapier (University of Lille), Hubert Jayet (University of Lille) and Hillel
Rapoport (University of Bar-Ilan)
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PAPER
A4.3 "Migration and the Productivity of LDC Mega-cities: Evidence from the Cairo Conurbation" by Barry
McCormick and Jackline Wahba (University of Southampton)
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PAPER
A4.4 "From the Dark End of the Street to the Bright Side of the Road? Investigating the Returns to
Residential Mobility in Britain" by Rene Boheim and Mark P. Taylor (University of Essex)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Rene Boheim (University of Essex)
SESSION A5: INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES I
A5.1 "Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living
Arrangements" by Lisa Cameron and Deborah Cobb-Clark (University of Melbourne)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
A5.2 "Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants"
by Leif Husted , Helen Skyt Nielson, Michael Roholm and Nina Smith (Aarhus School of Business)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
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A5.3 "The Consequences of Specification Error for Distributional Analysis with an Application to
Intergenerational Mobility " by Olive Sweetman, Donal O' Neil (NUI, Ireland) and Dirk Van de Gaer
(University of Ghent)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Olive Sweetman (NUI, Ireland)
PARALLEL SESSIONS B
(Thursday 14 June 14:30-16:30)
SESSION B1: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
B1.1 " Marriage, Divorce and Earnings-Risk" by Dan Anderberg (University of Stirling)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
B1.2 "Non Parametric Estimates of the Effect of Fertility on Marital Dissolution" by Daniela Vuri
(European University Institute)
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PAPER
B1.3 "The Impact of Cohabitation and Divorce on Partners" by Joris Ghysels (University of Antwerp)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
B1.4 "Parental Separation and Children’s Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach" by Anders
Bjorklund and Marianne Sundstrom (University of Stockholm)
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PAPER
B1.5 "Matching in the Marriage Market and Childbearing Outside Marriage" by Ken Burdett and John
Ermisch (University of Essex)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: John Ermisch (University of Essex)
SESSION B2: LABOUR MARKETS I
B2.1 "Stress at Work – An Investigation into Job Satisfaction and Quitting Intentions for the G7 Countries"
by Rannia M. Leontaridi (University of Stirling) and Melanie Ward (IZA, Bonn)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
B2.2 "Age, Cohort, and the Slump of Job Satisfaction among West-German Workers" by Hendrik Juerges
(University of Dortmund)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
B2.3 "Gender Differences in Job Satisfaction and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Propensity
Score Estimates" by Anna Sanz de Galdeano (European University Institute)
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PAPER
B2.4 "The Equilibrium Labor Market Effects of Major Skill-Enhancing Adult Education Programs: Theory
and Application to the Swedish Knowledge Lift" by James Albrecht (Georgetown University), Gerard van
den Berg (Free University Amsterdam) and Susan Vroman (Georgetown University)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
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B2.5 "Organizational Change and Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data" by Thomas
Bauer (IZA, Bonn) and Stefan Bender (Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
CHAIR: Thomas Bauer (IZA, Bonn)
SESSION B3: FERTILITY I
B3.1 "Fertility and Female Employment Reconsidered: A Macro-level Time Series Analysis" by Henriette
Engelhardt (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
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PAPER
B3.2 "Life-Cycle Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility Decisions: Differences by Level of
Education" by Massimiliano Bratti (University of Warwick)
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B3.3 "Increases in Female Labour Supply: Less Children or Less Effect of Children?" by J.D. Vlasblom
and V. Schippers (University of Utrecht)
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PAPER
B3.4 "Low Fertility and Prospective Living Standards in Australia" by Ian Macdonald (University of
Melbourne) and Ross S. Guest (Griffith University)
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PAPER
B3.5 "Time for Children, A Study of Parents' Time Allocation" by Daniel Hallberg and Anders
Klevmarken (University of Uppsala)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Anders Klevmarken (University of Uppsala)
SESSION B4: JOB MOBILITY
B4.1 "Occupational Pensions and Individual Job Mobility in the European Union: Evidence from the
ECHP Survey" by Vincenzo Andrietti (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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PAPER
B4.2 "Training Incidence and Job-Mobility in Switzerland" by Stefan C. Wolter (University of Berne)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
B4.3 "Mobility and Earnings" by Rita Asplund (ETLA, Helsinki)
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PAPER
B4.4 "Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico" by
Xiaodong Gong (IZA, Bonn) and Arthur van Soest (University of Tilburg)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
B4.5 "Career Progression within Large Firms" by Francisco Lima and Pedro Telhado Pereira (New
University of Lisbon)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Pedro Telhado Pereira (New University of Lisbon)
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SESSION B5: EDUCATION I
B5.1 "Resource Use and Complementary Measures of School Quality" by Beatrice Schindler Rangvid
(University of Arhus)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
B5.2 "Teacher Quality, Student Composition and School Characteristics" by Hans Bonesronning, Torberg
Falch and Bjarne Strom (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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PAPER
B5.3 "The Effect of School Resources on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Denmark" by Eskil
Heinesen (AKF, Denmark) Brian Krogh Graversen (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
B5.4 "Schooling Resources, Educational Institutions, and Student Performance: The International
Evidence" by Ludger Woessmann (Kiel Institute of World Economics)
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PAPER
B5.5 "Summer Learning and the Effect of Schooling: Evidence from Sweden" by Mikael Lindahl
(University of Amsterdam)
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CHAIR: Mikael Lindahl (University of Amsterdam)
SESSION B6: TAXATION
B6.1 "Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Outcome as a Basis for Evaluating Tax Regimes:
Empirical Evidence based on Italian Data" by Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway) and Ugo Colombino
(University of Torino)
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PAPER
B6.2 "The Effect of Tax-Transfer Policies on Fertility by Birth Rank in Canada and Quebec: Evidence
from a Natural Experiment (1986-1996)" by Edith Duclos (Human Resources Development Canada),
Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (University of Quebec at Montreal)
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PAPER
B6.3 "On the Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Family Size" by Alessandro Balestrino (University of Pisa)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
B6.4 "Endogenous Fertility and the Design of Family Taxation" by Anna Pettini, A. Cigno (University of
Florence) and A. Balestrino (University of Pisa)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Alessandro Cigno (University of Florence)
PARALLEL SESSIONS C
(Friday, June 15 9:00-11:00)
SESSION C1: CHILDREN AND WORK
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C1.1 "Intra-household Child Labour Decisions in Brazil" by Antoine Bommier (INED, IEP and LEAINRA) Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet (CREST-LMI and DELTA) and Sylvie Lambert (LEA-INRA, Paris)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
C1.2 "Child Labor and Economic Growth" by Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet (CREST-LMI and DELTA,
Paris)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
C1.3 "Statistic Estimation of the Youth Labour Market in Transition" by Sergiy Gerasymenko (National
Academy of Management, Kiev) and Olena Gerasymenko (Kiev Economic Institute of Management)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C1.4 "Evaluating the Impact of Working While in School on School Progress" by Cristobal Ridao-Cano
(University of Colorado at Boulder)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Cristobal Ridao-Cano (University of Colorado at Boulder)
SESSION C2: EDUCATION II
C2.1 "The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts" by Giorgio
Brunello (University of Padova)
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PAPER
C2.2 "Choosing between School Systems" by Volker Meier (CESifo, Munich)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
C2.3 "College Choice and Earnings" by Lena Gustafson and Hakan Regner (University of Stockholm)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C2.4 "The Wage Expectations of European College Students" by Giorgio Brunello, (University of Padova)
Claudio Lucifora (Universita Cattolica) and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C2.5 "How Should the Students Allocate their Time?" by Oscar D. Marcenaro Gutierrez (Universidad de
Malaga), Peter Dolton (University of Newcastle) and Lucia Navarro Gomez (Universidad de Malaga)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
CHAIR: Peter Dolton (University of Newcastle)
SESSION C3: HEALTH, MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
C3.1 "Are Immigrants Healthier than Natives? Evidence from Germany and the UK" by Francesca Fabbri
(University College London)
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PAPER
C3.2 "Measuring the Local Burden of Disease - A Study of Years of Life Lost in Sub-Saharan Africa" by
Ralph Wuerthwein (University of Heidelberg), Adjima Gbangou (Nouna Health Research Center), R.
Sauerborn (University of Heidelberg) and Christoph M. Schmidt (University of Heidelberg)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C3.3 "Health Status and Retirement Decisions for Older European Couples" by Sergi Jimenez-Martín, Jose
M. Labeaga and Maite Martínez Granado (Universidad Carlos III)
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PAPER
C3.4 "Is Poverty Good for Your Health? Self-reported Illness and the Demand for Health Services in
Ghana" by Claus Chr. Portner (The World Bank)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Christoph M. Schmidt (University of Heidelberg)
SESSION C4: ADOPTION, BROTHERS AND SISTERS
C4.1 "The Effect of Family Composition on the Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm
Households" by Ayal Kimhi (The Hebrew University) and Eddie Seiler (Bates White and Ballentine)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C4.2 "Sibling Rivalry: Evidence from an Analysis of the Duration of Child Survival in India" by Gerald
Makepeace and Sarmistha Pal (Cardiff Business School)
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PAPER
C4.3 "Equal Opportunity? Educational Attainment in Norway: Differences Between Families and Siblings"
by Oddbjorn Raaum and Tom Erik Aabo (University of Oslo)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
C4.4 "The Educational Attainment of Adopted Children Born Abroad: Swedish Evidence" by Anders
Bjorklund and Katarina Richardson (University of Stockholm)
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PAPER
C4.5 "Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?" by Erik Plug
(University of Amsterdam)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam)
SESSION C5: GENDER ISSUES
C5.1 "Male-female Wage Growth, Occupational Segregation and Technological Change" by Astrid Kunze
(IZA, Bonn)
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PAPER
C5.2 "Wage Earners, Self Employed and Gender in the Informal Sector in Turkey" by Aysit Tansel
(Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
C5.3 "Gender Segregation: From Birth to Occupation" by Ricardo Mora and Javier Ruiz-Castillo
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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PAPER
C5.4 "Androcentricity in Economic Research, Teaching and Policy Formulations: A Case for Gender
Mainstreaming" by Siv Gustafsson (University of Amsterdam)
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PAPER
C5.5 "The Intrafirm Gender Gap: An Empirical Analysis by Workers Matching and Wage Decomposition"
by Sara de la Rica (Universidad del Pais Vasco) and Florentino Felgueroso (Universidad de Oviedo)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
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CHAIR: Sara de la Rica (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
SESSION C6: LABOUR MARKETS II
C6.1 "Long-term Consequences of an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel
Foundation" by Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C6.2 "A Homogenous or Heterogeneous Workforce?" by Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjogren
(University of Stockholm)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
C6.3 "Social Conformity and Child Labor" by Shirit Katav-Herz (Bar-Ilan University)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
C6.4 "Job Search Methods, Intensity and Success in Britain in the 1990s" by Mark P. Taylor (University of
Essex)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Mark P. Taylor (University of Essex)
PARALLEL SESSIONS D
(Friday June 15 11:30-13:30)
SESSION D1: FERTILITY II
D1.1 "Female Labour Market Situation and Timing of First Birth in Spain" by Alfredo Ariza and Arantza
Ugidos (University of Bilbao)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D1.2 "Does the Timing of Independence of Young Adults Affect Fertility? Evidence from Sweden, Italy,
Germany and France" by Dr. Arnstein Aassve (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
D1.3 "Estimating Fertility Responses to Expectations: Evidence from the 1958 British Cohort" by Emilia
Del Bono (University of Oxford)
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PAPER
D1.4 "Labor Market Performance and the Timing of Births across OECD Countries " by Alicia Adsera
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D1.5 "Fertility Dynamics in Western Germany" by Jan Ondrich (Syracuse University), H.P. Kohler and
Michaela Kreyenfeld (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Jan Ondrich (Syracuse University)
SESSION D2: EDUCATION III
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D2.1 "Socio-economic Association with Parity Progression in France and Britain" by Olivia Ekert-Jaffe
(INED, Paris), Heather Joshi (Institute of Education, London), Kevin Lynch (Institute of Education,
London), Remi Mougin (INED, Paris) and Michael Rendall (Pennsylvania State University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D2.2 "The Relationship between Fertility and Education and the Influence of Spouse Characteristics" by
Ghazala Naz, Oivind Anti Nilsen and Steinar Vagstad (University of Bergen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D2.3 "The Effect of Completion of an Education on Entry into Motherhood in Austria or The 'Real' Catchup Effect" by Isabella Buber (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
D2.4 "Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?" by Donna Ginther (Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta) and Robert Pollak
ABSTRACT
PAPER
D2.5 "The Role of Education on Postponement of Maternity in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and
Sweden" by Siv Gustafsson, Cecile Wetzels and Eiko Kenjoh (University of Amsterdam)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
CHAIR: Siv Gustafsson (University of Amsterdam)
SESSION D3: RACE AND MINORITIES
D3.1 "Does the Source of Discrimination Matter? An Investigation of Employer, Employee and Consumer
Racial Discrimination and the Utility from Work" by Michael A. Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price
(University of Leicester)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D3.2 "Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain" by H. Battu and P.J. Sloane (University of
Aberdeen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D3.3 "The National Minority - Majority Income Gap in Rural China During Transition" by Bjorn
Gustafsson (University of Gothenburg)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Bjorn Gustafsson (University of Gothenburg)
SESSION D4: SAVINGS AND WEALTH
D4.1 "The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data" by Rob
Euwals (IZA, Bonn), Axel Borsch-Supan (University of Mannheim) and Angelika Eymann (University of
Mannheim)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
D4.2 "The Age-Wealth Relationship: An Analysis on French Data" by Jerome Bourdieu, Gilles PostelVinay, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (INRA)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D4.3 "Is Wealth Becoming More Polarized in the United States?" by Conchita D'Ambrosio (Universita'
Bocconi) and Ed Wolff (NYU)
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D4.4 "Non-linear Unemployment Effects in Sick Absence" by Jan Morten Dyrstad (Norwegian University
of Science and Technology)
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PAPER
D4.5 "The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions: VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility
Behaviour in Germany" by Alessandro Cigno (University of Florence) Luca Casolaro (Bank of Italy) and
Furio C. Rosati (Tor Vergata University)
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PAPER
CHAIR Furio C. Rosati (Tor Vergata University)
SESSION D5: EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
D5.1 "Unemployment, Housework and Marital Gain: Specialization or Polyvalence? Evidence from French
Couples" by Anne Solaz (INED, Paris)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
D5.2 "Unemployment Dynamics in the United Kingdom: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and
Business Cycle Effects" by Adriaan S. Kalwij (University of Oxford)
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PAPER
D5.3 "Re-employment Dynamics of Disabled Workers" by Hielke Buddelmeyer (IZA, Bonn)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
D5.4 "A Dynamic Analysis of First Time Mothers’ Transitions Between Working for Pay, Working Part
Time and Working Fulltime. Cross Country Comparisons Between Britain, Germany, Netherlands and
Sweden" by Siv Gustafsson, Eiko Kenjoh and Cecile Wetzels (TNO/STB, Delft)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
D5.5 "Welfare Participation and Welfare Dependence among Unemployed" by Maria Melkersson
(University of Stockholm) and Jan Saarela (Abo Akademi)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Maria Melkersson (University of Stockholm)
SESSION D6: MIGRATION II
D6.1 "Identifying Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants under Changing Macroeconomic Conditions: The
Norwegian Case" by Erling Barth (Institute for Social Research, Norway)
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PAPER
D6.2 "The Value of Bilingualism in the U.S. Labor Market" by Richard Fry, Lindsey Lowell and Anthony
Carnevate (Educational Testing Service, Washington)
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PAPER
D6.3 "Macroeconomic and Labor Market Impact of Russian Immigration in Israel" by Sarit Cohen (Bar
Ilan University) and Chang Tai-Hsieh (Princeton University)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
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D6.4 "A Dynamic Model of Return Migration" by Christian Dustmann and Jerome Adda (University
College London)
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PAPER
CHAIR: Christian Dustmann (University College London)
PARALLEL SESSIONS E
(Friday 15 June 16:00-18:00)
SESSION E1: LABOUR MARKETS III
E1.1 "Does The New Deal Match Up?" by Peter Dolton (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E1.2 "Labour Market Distortions in Newly Industrialising Economies: A Study of the Mauritian
Experience" by Shyam Nath (University of Mauritius)
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PAPER
E1.3 "Income Effects from Swedish Labor Market Training Programs During the 80's and 90's" by Thomas
Andren and Bjorn Gustafsson (University of Gothenburg)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E1.4 "A Comparative Analysis of Wage Changes for Spanish Young And Older Workers During the
1980s: Differences Within and Between Groups at Different Quantiles" by Almudena Blanco (University
of Bilbao)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E1.5 "Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and The Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia"
by Ingo Geishecker and John P. Haisken-DeNew (DIW, Berlin)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: John P. Haisken-DeNew (DIW, Berlin)
SESSION E2: INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES II
E2.1 "An Applied International Overlapping Generations Model" by Vincent Touze and others (Fondation
Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris)
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PAPER
E2.2 "Intergenerational Mobility in Education during the 20th Century, A Cohort Analysis of Flemish
Men" by Karel Van Den Bosch (University of Antwerp)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E2.3 "First and Second Generation Migrants in Germany – What Do We Know and What Do People
Think" by Michael Fertig and Christoph M. Schmidt (University of Heidelberg)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E2.4 "Labour Market Networks, Family Background, and the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance: The
Nature of Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance among Canadian Youth"
by Miles Corak (Statistics Canada)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
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CHAIR: Miles Corak (Statistics Canada)
SESSION E3: CONSUMPTION AND EXPENDITURE
E3.1 "The Second Engel Law and Economies of Scale: An Empirical Puzzle to be Composed" by Federico
Perali and Raffaella Castagnini (University of Verona)
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PAPER
E3.2 "Unemployment and Consumption: The Underlying Family Networks" by Ignacio Garcia and Silvio
Rendon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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NOT AVAILABLE
E3.3 "Household Consumption and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Car Loans" by Orazio Attanasio
(UCLA), Pinelopi Goldberg (Columbia University) and Ekaterini Kyriazidou (UCLA)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E3.4 "Britains Future Consumers Today: An Economic Investigation of Children's Expenditure Patterns"
by Lisa Farrell and Michael Shields (University of Leicester)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Michael Shields (University of Leicester)
SESSION E4: MIGRANTS AND WORK
E4.1 "Guestworkers of the 1980's and 1990's: Who is Staying in Germany and Who is Going Back?" by
Douglas Massey and Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E4.2 "Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect" by
Alessandra Venturini and C. Villosio (University of Padua)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E4.3 "Native-Immigrant Wage Differentials in Germany" by Guenter Lang (University of Augsburg)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E4.4 "Migration Patterns among Japanese University Students" by Hiroshi Ono (Stockholm School of
Economics)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E4.5 "Migrating Worker" by Hans Hansen (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
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CHAIR: Hans Hansen (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
SESSION E5: HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY ISSUES
E5.1 "The Timing of Leaving Parental Home and Its Relationship with Other Life Course Events in
Turkey" by Ismet Koc (Hacettepe University)
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PAPER
E5.2 "Are Living Arrangements for Elderly Parents Pareto-Efficient? Evidence from Indonesia" by
Suzanne Eckhardt (INED, Paris)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
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E5.3 "Age at First Time Home-ownership in Spain" by Namkee Ahn (FEDEA, Madrid)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E5.4 "Determinants of young Europeans’ Decision to Leave the Parental Household" by Michele Ghidoni
(University College London)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
CHAIR: Michele Ghidoni (University College London)
SESSION E6: MIGRATION III
E6.1 "Do Turkish People have Intentions to Migrate Abroad" by Elif Kurtulus Yigit (Hacettepe University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
E6.2 "Migration and Adjustment to Shocks in Transition Economies" by Jan Fidrmuc (University of Bonn)
ABSTRACT
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E6.3 "Immigration from the Eastern Block and the Former Soviet Union to Israel: Who is Coming When?"
by Lilo Locher (IZA, Bonn)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E6.4 "East-West Migration Flows Following Enlargement" by Karl Pichelmann (European Commission)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
E6.5 "Albanian Emigration: Intentions versus Actual Behaviour" by Harry Papapanagos (University of
Macedonia) and Peter Sanfey (EBRD)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Harry Papapanagos (University of Macedonia)
PARALLEL SESSIONS F
(Saturday 16 June 9:00-11:00)
SESSION F1: RETIREMENT II
F1.1"Retirement and the Economic Well-being of the Elderly: A British Perspective" by Elena Bardasi,
Stephen P. Jenkins, and John A. Rigg (University of Essex)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F1.2 "Transitions to Retirement: A Dynamic Approach to the Labour-Market Behaviour of Older Workers
in the Netherlands" by Trudie Schils (Tilburg University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F1.3 "Early Retirement Behaviour for Men and Women in Denmark" by Anne Moller Dano, Mette Ejrns
and Leif Husted (AKF, Copenhagen)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F1.4 "Will Recent Italian Pension Reforms be Really Effective? Testing Economic Rationality of
Retirement Choices: A Discrete-time Duration Analysis of Working Careers" by Luca Spataro (University
of Pisa)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
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F1.5 "Social Security, Pensions and the Savings and Retirement Behaviour of Households" by Wilbert van
der Klaauw (University of North Carolina) and Ken I. Wolpin (New York University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Wilbert van der Klaauw (University of North Carolina)
SESSION F2: MIGRATION IV
F2.1 "International Migration and the Role of Remittances in Eastern Europe" by Miguel Leon-Ledesma
and Matloob Piracha (University of Kent)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F2.2 "Determinants of Immigrant Selectivity and Skills" by Madeline Zavodny (Federal Reserve Bank,
Atlanta)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F2.3 "A Test for the Insurance Motive for Rural-to-Urban Migration" by Quamrul Ahsan (University of
Bergen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Quamrul Ahsan (University of Bergen)
SESSION F3: POVERTY II
F3.1 "Neighbourhood Characteristics and Individual Transitions Into and Out of Poverty" by Andrew
McCulloch (University of Essex)
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PAPER
F3.2. "The Persistence of Poverty: Is it State Dependence or Unobserved Heterogeneity?" by Anna Giraldo,
Enrico Rettore and Ugo Trivellato (University of Padua)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F3.3 "Climbing out of Poverty, Falling Back In: Low Incomes' Stability in Spain" by Olga Canto
(Universidad de Vigo)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F3.4 "Is Part Time Work a Cause of Poverty? The Case of French Households in 1994" by David Clement
(Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans), Pedro Rodrigures (Mutualite Sociale Agricole) and Catherine Sofer
(University of Paris 1).
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR Catherine Sofer (University of Paris 1)
SESSION F4: WELFARE
F4.1 "Who Gets Sanctioned under Welfare Reform? Evidence from Child Support Enforcement in Illinois"
by Yunhee Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F4.2 "The Family versus the State in the Provision of Welfare in the European Union, An Application
using the 15 Country EU Microsimulation Model, EUROMOD" by Cathal O'Donoghue (University of
Cambridge)
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ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F4.3 "Some Welfare and Policy Implications of Child Benefit Labeling Effects" by Peter Kooreman
(University of Groningen )
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F4.4 "Children as a Household Public Good" by Imran Rasul (London School of Economics)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F4.5 "The Effects of Active Social Policy on Welfare Dependence" by Peter Jensen (Aarhus School of
Business)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Peter Jensen (Aarhus School of Business)
SESSION F5: METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
F5.1 "Assessing the Extent of Randomization Bias in the Canadian Self-sufficiency Demonstration Project"
by Guy Lacroix (University of Laval) and Jimmy Royer (University of Laval)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F5.2 "Calculating Steady-state Conditions in Demographic Multi-state Models of Resident Citizenship
Groupings and Labor Supply" by Hans Oluf Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
F5.3 "Macroeconomic Adjustment, Socio-demographic Change, and the Evolution of Income Distribution
In Cote d'Ivoire - A Decomposition by Microsimulation" by Michael Grimm (DIAL, Paris)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F5.4 "Time Series Properties and Stochastic Forecasts: Some Econometrics of Mortality from the Canadian
Laboratory" by Frank Denton, Christine H. Feaver, and Byron G. Spencer (McMaster University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Frank Denton (McMaster University)
SESSION F6: HUMAN CAPITAL
F6.1 "Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment - An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of
Social Security" by Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul (IZA, Bonn)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F6.2 "A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews" by Maristella Botticini
(Boston University) and Zvi Eckstein (Tel Aviv University)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
F6.3 "Immigrants' Time to Economic Independence: Human Capital Investments and Public Transfer
Reliance" by Regina Riphahn, Michael Rosholm (University of Aarhus) and Nina Smith (University of
Aarhus)
NOT AVAILABLE
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Nina Smith (University of Aarhus)
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PARALLEL SESSIONS G
(Saturday June 16 11:30-1:30)
SESSION G1: AGEING AND AGE STRUCTURE CHANGES
G1.1 "Youth Dependency and Total Factor Productivity" by Tomas Kogel (Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G1.2 "An OLG Model of Endogenous Ageing and Growth" by Giam Pietro Cipriani (University of Bristol)
and Miltiadis Makris (University of Exeter)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G1.3 "Economic Consequences of Demographic Waves" by Yuri Yegorov (Central European University)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G1.4 "Age Structure Change and Long-term Economic Growth in the Western World" by Bo Malmberg
and Thomas Lindh (Uppsala University)
ABSTRACT
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G1.5 "Growth Effects of Longevity: Theory and Evidence" by Jie Zhang (Victoria University of
Wellington) and Junsen Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Junsen Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
SESSION G2: INTRAHOUSHOLD DISTRIBUTION
G2.1 "Evidence on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Implications on the Welfare of Individual
Household Members using a Collective Demand System Approach" by Panayiota Lyssiotou (University of
Cyprus)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G2.2 "Motives for Pocket Money Allowance and Family Incentives" by Christine Barnet-Verzat and
François-Charles Wolff (University of Nantes)
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G2.3 "Intergenerational Succession on European Farms" by Sandra McNally (University College London)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G2.4 "Sharing the Wealth: Income Shocks and Intra-family Transfers in Germany" by Enrica Croda
(UCLA)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
CHAIR: Enrica Croda (UCLA)
SESSION G3: SICKNESS AND ABSENTEEISM
G3.1 "Sickness Absence and Economic Incentives: A Panel Study" by Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg
and Oivind Anti Nilsen (University of Bergen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
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G3.2 "The Importance of Sickness Benefits Rights for a Comparison of Wages" by Ann-Charlotte
Stahlberg (University of Stockholm) and Jan Selen (FIEF, Stockholm)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G3.3 "Modelling Workers' Sickness Absence using UK Survey Data" by Marco G. Ercolani (University of
Essex)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G3.4 "Long-term Absenteeism due to Sickness: The Swedish Experience 1986-1991" by Daniela Andren
(University of Gothenburg)
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G3.5 "Incentives and Selection in Cyclical Absenteeism" by Mahmood Arai and Peter Skogman Thoursie
(University of Stockholm)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR Jan Selen (FIEF, Stockholm)
SESSION G4: INCOME DYNAMICS
G4.1 "Can Increasing Wage Inequality Explain the Increasing Polarisation of Employment among British
Women? Evidence from the General Household Survey, 1974-98" by Susan Harkness (University of
Sussex)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G4.2 "A Four Country Story: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain and
Venezuela" by Marta Menendez (DELTA, Paris)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G4.3 "Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Ineaquality" by Uwe Sunde (IZA, Bonn)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G4.4 "The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain" by Tarja Viitanen (London School of
Economics)
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PAPER
G4.5 "Family Income Dynamics in Finland 1970-1995" by Tor Eriksson, Markus Jantti and Eva
Osterbacka (Abo Akademi University).
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
CHAIR: Eva Osterbacka (Abo Akademi University).
SESSION G5: EDUCATION IV
G5.1 "Gender Bias and Education: The Role of Kinship and Household Norms in LDC's" by Anu
Rammohan and Peter Robertson (University of New South Wales)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G5.2 "Schooling, Family Background and Neighbourhood of Children in the US: How Much do these
Matter for Adult Outcomes?" by Simon Burgess (University of Bristol), Karen Gardiner (London School of
Economics) and Carol Propper (University of Bristol)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
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G5.3 "Measuring the Effect of a School Reform on Educational Attainment and Earnings" by Arild
Aakvik, Kjell G. Salvanes and Kjell Vaage (University of Bergen)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G5.4 "Economic, Social and Demographic Determinants of School Expenditure: A Dynamic Panel Data
Model" by Eskil Heinesen (AKF, Denmark)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
CHAIR: Eskil Heinesen (AKF, Denmark)
SESSION G6: LABOUR MARKETS IV
G6.1 "Metropoles, Towns and the Countryside: Search Assignment across Space" by Pieter Gautier and
Coen Teulings (Erasmus University and Tinbergen Institute)
ABSTRACT
PAPER
G6.2 "Does Immigration Lead to the Segmentation of the Labour Force" by Augustin De Coulon (Queen
Mary College, London)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G6.3 "Self-employed Immigrants in Denmark" by Kraen Blume (AKF, Denmark)
ABSTRACT
NOT AVAILABLE
G6.4 "Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?" by James Albrecht (Georgetown University), Anders
Bjorklund (University of Stockholm) and Susan Vroman (Georgetown University)
NOT AVAILABLE
PAPER
CHAIR: Anders Bjorklund (University of Stockholm)
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