Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

• Guided city tour Nuremberg from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, meeting at the youth hostel near the castle (Address: Burg 2, Nuremberg,
  http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/bayern/nuernberg/)

• Informal meeting at the Restaurant Marientorzwinger
  (Address: Lorenzerstraße 33, Nuremberg, http://www.marientorzwinger.de/)

•  Registration / Room 162  

Welcome Speech / Room 168

• Joachim Möller (University of Regensburg and Director of the Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg) 

Keynote Speech / Room 168

• Dual track reforms and the honeymoon of European unemployment
  Tito Boeri (Bocconi University, Milano und Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti) 

Parallel Session 1 A / Room 164

Non-standard Forms of Employment

Chair: Martina Zweimüller

• Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies?
  Manfred Antoni (Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg)
  Paper
• The segmentation potential of non-standard employment: A four country analysis of mobility patterns
  Janine Leschke (European Trade Union Institute, Brussels)
  Paper 
• Employment of temporary agency workers and industrial relations - panel evidence from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey
  Martina Zweimüller (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Parallel Session 1B / Room 158 

Unemployment Insurance and Benefits 

Chair: Ralf Wilke

• The effect of tightened UIB entitlement rules on incentives to accept employment: Empirical evidence from three Nordic countries
  Merja Kauhanen (Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki)
  Paper
• What Explains Cross Section Variation in British Disability Benefit Rolls?
  Duncan McVicar (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Paper
• Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment  Benefits on Migration in Germany
  Ralf Wilke (University of Leicester)
  Paper  

Parallel Session 2 A / Room 169

Wages

Chair: Anton Nivorozhkin

• The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches – Evidence from German Panel Data
  Silke Anger (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin)
  Paper 
• Do Initial Conditions Persist Between Firms? An Analysis of Firm-Entry Cohort Effects and Job Losers using Matched Employer-Employee Data
  Stefan Bender (Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg)
  Paper  
• The Wage Costs of Motherhood: Which Mothers are better Off and Why
  Anton Nivorozhkin (Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg)
  Paper

Parallel Session 2B / Room 164 

Institutions and the German Labor Market 

• Structural change and unemployment
  Uwe Blien (Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg) 
  Paper  
• The Impact of Minimum Wages on Remuneration and Employment in the Construction Sector - A Micro Data Analysis for West and East Germany
  Joachim Möller (University of Regensburg and Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg)
  Paper   
• Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques for Long-term Unemployed Reduce Unemployment?
  Thomas Wagner (University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg)
  Paper  

Parallel Session 2C / Room 158  

Active Labor Market Policies 1

Chair: Geoff Perry

• Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
  Marco Caliendo (Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA Bonn)
  Paper
• The effect of participation in subsidised employment on labour market transitions
  Christian Göbel (Centre for European Economic Research, ZEW Mannheim)
  Paper
• Economic Evaluation of Three New Zealand Active Labour Market Programmes
  Geoff Perry (Auckland University of Technology)
  Paper

Parallel Session 3A / Room 168 

Matching 

• Age Effects on Equilibrium Unemployment
  Carsten Ochsen (University of Rostock)
  Paper 
• Young workers' professional experience: employment instability and access to high-skill jobs
  Thérèse Rebière (University of Le Havre)
  Paper

Parallel Session 3B / Room 164 

Active Labor Market Policies 2  

Data Issues  

Parallel Session 4A / Room 168

Migration  

• International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
  Herbert Brücker (Institute for Employment Research, IAB Nuremberg)
  Paper 
• Inequality and the (Self-)Selection of International Migrants: Theory and Novel Evidence
  Cecily Defoort (Universities of Lille and IRES- University of Louvain)
  Paper 
• Return Migrant Status and Employment: Findings from Longitudinal Population Register Data
  Jan Saarela (Åbo Akademi University, Vasa)
  Paper 

Parallel Session 4B / Room 164

Inequality and Justice   

Parallel Session 4C / Room 158

Institutions and Unemployment   

Informal meeting at the Restaurant Tucherbräu am Opernhaus
(Address: Karthäusertor 1, Nuremberg, http://www.tucherbraeuamopernhaus.de/) 

Keynote Speech / Room 168

• Studying labor market institutions in the lab
  Armin Falk (University Bonn and Director of Research, IZA Bonn)

Coffee Break

Parallel Session 5 A / Room 168

Employment Protection   

Chair:  Åsa Rosén

• Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?
  Björn Brügemann (Yale University)
  Paper  
• Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
  Michael Neugart (Sozial Science Resarch Center Berlin, WZB)
  Paper  
• Discrimination and Employment Protection
  Åsa Rosén (Stockholm University)
  Paper