Workshop
on Firm-Level Analysis
of Labour issues,
Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL-Belgium), May 28, 2014
Keynote
speaker: Alexander
Hijzen (OECD-IZA)
on "The Role
of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustments:
Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence"
We are pleased to invite you to the one-day workshop on Firm-Level Analysis of Labour
Issues to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on May 28,
2014.
The
growing availability of good-quality firm-level longitudinal data -
many of them providing information on
the characteristics of both employees and their workplaces -
has
created
opportunities for the analysis of key areas of labour market
functioning and policy. Such data sets enable researchers to
consider a large
set of topical issues: the impact of labour characteristics (education,
age, gender, part- vs. full-time assignment) on productivity and
employability, the magnitude of gender
wage discrimination, the importance and consequences of job
turnover, the link between company-based training
productivity
and pay, the origins of regional unemployment asymmetries,
the
employment vs pay response to output shocks ... The
purpose of
this one-day workshop is to assemble the best and most
recent contributions of researchers active in this area.
PROGRAMME [click]
FILL THE REGISTRATION
FORM !!!![click]
Venue
Collège J. Leclerq (ground floor, room LECL 93)
Place Montesquieu, 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
(see map)
Organising
committee
Prof.
Vincent
Vandenberghe (UCL- vincent.vandenberghe@uclouvain.be), Lara Lebedinski
(UCL- Lara.lebedinski@uclouvain.be), Giulia Specchia (UCL-
giulia.specchia@uclouvain.be), Claudine Stage
(claudine.stage@uclouvain.be)
Scientific committee
Prof.
Joseph Koenings (KULeuven)
Prof. F. Rycx (ULB)
Prof. Vincent
Vandenberghe (UCL)
Funding
for this event is provided by IRES and the Belgian Federal
Government - SPP
Politique scientifique, programme "Société et Avenir",EmployMENT
, DISCRIMINATION , POVERTY (EDIPO),
research contract TA/00/46
PROGRAMME (9
am-5.15 pm)
Workshop
on Firm-Level Analysis
of Labour issues,
Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL-Belgium), May 28, 2014
Collège J.
Leclerq (ground floor, room LECL 93
)
Place Montesquieu, 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
(see
map)
Morning Session
(9.00 am- 12.30 am) - ROOM LECL60 - chair: V.Vandenberghe & F. Rycx
- Welcome of participants (9-9.10 am)
-
Paper 1. Worker reallocation around ownership change and its
implications for wages and job tenure (Ragnhild Balsvik,
Norwegian
School of Economics)
- Paper 2. Not In My Community: Social Pressure and the
Geography of Dismissals (Andrea
Bassanini, OECD-IZA)
Morning
coffee
break (10.45-10.55 am)
-
Paper 3. Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity:Do
Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter? (François Rycx, ULB,
& Guillaume Vermeylen, Université de Mons)
-
Paper 4. The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour
Market Adjustments: Cross-Country Firm-Level
Evidence (Alexander
Hijzen, OECD-IZA) KEYNOTE
PAPER
Lunch (12.30 am -1.15 pm) - IRES coffee loundge (ground floor, Dupriez Building, 3 place Montesquieu)
Poster Session (1.20-2.10 pm) - ROOM LECL 51-52 and LECL HALL
- Are human capital costs associated with bankruptcy large enough to be a
disincentive for unlisted firms to use more debt? An Empirical
Analysis (Balbinder
Singh Gill, Ghent University)
- Better Workers Move to Better Firms:A Simple Test to Identify Sorting
(Francesco Devicienti,
University of Turin)
- Decomposition Of Gender Wage Differential By Employer Size (Syeda Batool,
University of Paris-1 & Paris
School of Economics, tbc)
- The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and
Does It Affect Wage Dispersion? (Lucy Stokes, John
Forth, Alex Bryson, National Institute of Economic and Social Research,
UK)
- Are Firms Paying More For Performance? (Lucy Stokes, John
Forth, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, UK)
-
The impact of overeducated and undereducated workers on firms’
productivity. First evidence for Germany (Philipp Grunau,
Institute for
Employment Research, Nurenberg)
- Do Internal Labour Markets Protect the Unskilled from Low Payment?
Evidence from Germany (Clemens
Ohlert, University of Hamburg, Holger Lengfeld, University of Leipzig)
- Hiring Discrimination Based On National Origin And Competition
Between The Employed And Unemployed Job Seekers (Guillaume Pierne,
Centre d’Etudes des Politiques
Économiques de l’Université d’Evry)
Afternoon parallel sessions -
part 1 (2.10-3.35 pm)
Session
A - ROOM LECL93 chair: A. Aubry
Paper 5. Assessing human capital theory using firm-level evidence. The
Missing Link (Vincent
Vandenberghe, IRES-UCL)
Paper 6.
Effects of Performance Related Pay on productivity and wages: a
quantile regression analysis of the Italian firms (Fabrizio Pompei,
University of Perugia, Mirella
Damiani,
University of Perugia, Andrea
Ricci, ISFOL)
Session B -
ROOM LECL60 chair: L. Lebedinski
Paper 7. Allocation of human capital and innovation at the
frontier:Firm-level evidence on Germany and the
Netherlands (Sabien
Dobbelaere, VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen
Institute-IZA)
Paper 8. How Does Labor Demand React to Changes in the Supply of
Skills? Evidence from Schooling Reforms (Kai Liu, Norwegian
School of Economics)
Session
C - ROOM LECL61 chair: A. Ariu
Paper 9. Plant-level Productivity in A Declining Market: The Case of
Union Locals (Thomas
Breda, Paris School of Economics- CEP)
Paper 10. Job creation, firm creation, and de novo entry (Johannes VanBiesebroeck/Karen
Geurts, KULeuven)
Afternoon break
(3.35-3.45 pm)
Afternoon parallel sessions -
part 2 (3.45- 5.15 pm)
Session D -
ROOM LECL60 chair: S. Blanas
Paper 11. Spillovers From Multinationals to Domestic Firms: An
Empirical
Analysis of the Profitability Effects of Labour Flows (Pekka Ilmakunnas,
Aalto University School of Business)
Paper 12. Sequential Incentive Systems and Sorting: Evidence from a
Downsizing Firm (Wolter
Hassink, Utrecht University)
Session E -
ROOM LECL61 chair: V. Vandenberghe
Paper 13. Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm
Labor Mobility (Marianna
Marino, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Paper 14. The Spatial Dimension of Internal Labor Markets (Jose Varejao,
Universidade do Porto)
NB:
DINNER organizers + paper givers (7.00 - .... pm) at MAZEBU (place de l'université 14,
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
, see map)
REGISTRATION
FORM
Workshop
on Firm-Level Analysis
of Labour issues,
Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL-Belgium), May 28, 2014
