Labor Seminars Amsterdam

Speaker(s)
Michele Belot (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Bart Cockx (Ghent University, Belgium), Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden),Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh), and Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam)
Date
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Location
Amsterdam

Program (Please click here for a printer-friendly version)

11.00-11.45 Bas van der Klaauw/Hessel Oosterbeek/Pieter Gautier
Efficiency versus equity in the Amsterdam secondary school match

11.45-12.30 Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh)
How wage announcements affect job search behaviour – a field experimental investigation

12.30-13.15 LUNCH

13.15-14.00 Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Parental Labor Market Attachment and the Career Investments of Children: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

14.00-14.45 Bart Cockx (Ghent University, Belgium)
Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?

14.45-15.30 Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam)
Enriching students pays off: Evidence from an individualized gifted and talented program in secondary education

15.30-16.00 BREAK

16.00-16.45 Michele Belot (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Mind, Behaviour and Health – A Randomized Experiment

16.45-17.30 Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market

17.30 DRINKS

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Registration

Please register to Paul Muller or Nadine Ketel (see contact details above) before January 15, 2016, so that we get the right numbers for lunch and coffee.