| Time (CET) |
Programm |
| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. |
Registration |
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9:30 - 9:45
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Welcome and Introductory Remarks
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| 9:45 - 10:45 |
Keynote David Autor (MIT, Department of Economics)
Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Integrating Facts an Theory
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session I: Job Tasks and Wages
Chair: Bernd Fitzenberger (University Freiburg) |
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- Wage effects from changes in local human capital in Britain
Ioannis Kaplanis (Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics)
- Gale/Shapley und der Arbeitsmarkt
Reinhard Schüssler, Christian Seide
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session II: Job Tasks and Mismatching
Chair: Francis Green (University of Kent, School of Economics) |
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- Mismatching and job tasks in Germany - rising overqualification through polarization?
Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt, Michael Tiemann (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, BIBB)
- Occupational choice of young graduates
Stijn Rocher (Department of Economics, Universiteit Antwerpen)
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| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Session III: Job Tasks and Wages
Chair: David Autor (MIT, Department of Economics) |
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- Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality
Dirk Antonczyk (University Freiburg), Thomas DeLeire (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bernd Fitzenberger (University Freiburg)
Abstract
- Occupational Tasks and Changes in Wage Structure
Nicole M. Fortin (CIFAR Research Fellow), Sergio Firpo (São Paulo School of Economics, FGV), Thomas Lemieux (Department of Economics The University of British Columbia Vancouver)
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| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Session IV: Job Tasks and Skill Demand Change
Chair: Uta Schönberg (UCL, Department of Economics) |
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- Occupational Mobility Within and Between Skill Clusters: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Skill-Weights Approach.
Regula Geel, Uschi Backes-Gellner (University Zürich)
Abstract
- Movements upwards and downwards the occupational complexity: human capital destruction, over-qualification and human capital shortage
Ljubica Nedelkoska (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena), Frank Neffke (Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam)
Abstract
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| 1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Session V: Job Tasks and Wages
Chair: Maarten Goos (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) |
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- Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Dennis Göhrlich, Dennis J. Snower (The Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Abstract
- Changing Payoff to Skills: What’s Behind the Inequality Takeoff?
Yujia Liu (Department of Sociology, Stanford University)
Abstract
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| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Session VI: Job Tasks and Skill Demand Change
Chair: Corinna Kleinert (IAB) |
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- Production processes, tasks and skill requirements and their influence on the costs of apprenticeship training
Renate Neubäumer (University Koblenz-Landau), Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann (BIBB)
Abstract
- Skill Obsolescence, Vintage Effects and Changing Tasks
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Simon Janßen (University Zürich)
Abstract
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| 3:00 - 4:00 |
Session VII: Polarization and Offshoring
Chair: Olaf Stuck (University Bamberg) |
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- Routinization, Globalization and Rising Job Polarization: A Simple Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Jaewon Jung (RWTH Aachen University), Jean Mercenier (ERMES, Université Panthéon-Assas)
Abstract
- Job Polarization and Highly Educated Workers in the Low-Wage Sector
Julia Schneider, Holger Seibert, Martin Wrobel (IAB)
Abstract
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| 3:00 - 4:00 |
Session VIII: Job Tasks and Trade
Chair: Joachim Möller (IAB) |
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- Tasks, technology and trade
I. Semi Akcomak, Lex Borghans, Baas ter Weel (Department of International Economics, CPB Netherlands)
Abstract
- The Task Composition of Offshoring by U.S. Multinationals
Lindsay Oldenski (International Business Diplomacy, School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University)
Abstract
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| 4:00 - 4:15 |
Coffee break |
| 4:15 - 6:15 |
Data and Measurement of Tasks
Chair: Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt (BIBB)
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- Survey of Skills, Technology and Management Practices (STAMP) and O*net data Michael Handel (Northeastern University)
- Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU) and European Social Survey (ESS) skill modules
Michael Tåhlin (Stockholm University)
- BIBB/IAB-BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey
Michael Tiemann (BIBB)
- UK Skills Survey
Francis Green (University of Kent)
|
| 7:00 |
Conference Dinner |