XXI Annual Conference of the
European Society for Population Economics
June 14-16, 2007
Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, USA
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XXI Annual Conference of the June 14-16, 2007 |
| Thursday 11:00-1:00 PM, Parallel Sessions A | |||
| A1. Gender Gap I | |||
| Title of Paper | Presenter |
Affiliation |
Authors |
| Going behind the gender wage gap: Are women less educated or are they in worse firms? | Anja Heinze |
ZEW Mannheim |
Heinze Anja |
| Personnel Policy and the Gender Wage Gap within German Firms | Elke Wolf |
Munich University of Applied Sciences |
Wolf Elke, |
| Type of Education and the Gender Wage Gap | Sami Napari |
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy |
Napari Sami |
| The Impact Of Economic Freedom on Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study | Rudolf Winter-Ebmer |
University of Linz |
Winter-Ebmer, Weichselbaumer, Zweimueller |
| A2. Effects of Migration | |||
| Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift | Orn Bodvarsson |
St. Cloud State University |
Bodvarsson Orn, Van den Berg Hendrik, Lewer Joshua |
| Immigration and Wages: New Evidence for Britain | Tommaso Frattini |
University College London |
Dustmann Christian, Frattini Tommaso, Preston Ian |
| Do Immigrants Free Ride More than the Native-born? | Una Osili |
Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis |
Okonkwo Osili Una, Xie Jia |
| Regional Differences in the Labor Market Impact of Immigration: Evidence from Spain | Sara De la Rica |
University of the Basque Country |
De la Rica Sara, Amuedo-Dorantes Catalina |
| A3. Labor Market Programs | |||
| Using Propensity Score Matching to Evaluate Two French Active Labour Market Porgrammes | Sofia Pessoa e Costa |
Université Paris XII |
Pessoa e Costa Sofia |
| Does welfare-to-work initiatives work? Evidence from an activation programme targeted at social security recipients in Norway | Marit Rønsen |
Statistics Norway |
Rønsen Marit, Skarðhamar Torbjørn |
| The Effects of Public Employment Programs on Equilibrium Unemployment |
Tanja Zehnder |
University of Zurich |
Lalive Rafael, Zehnder Tanja |
| How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly; Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program | Jan van Ours
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Tilburg University |
Krogh Graversen Brian |
| A4. Wage Inequality | |||
| Revisiting the German Wage Structure | Christian Dustmann |
University College London |
Dustmann Christian, Schoenberg Uta, Ludsteck Johannes |
| Rising Wage Inequality in Germany | Johannes Gernandt |
Centre for European Economic Research |
Gernandt Johannes, Pfeiffer Friedhelm |
| Fishing for Wage Inequality: Piecing Apart Trade and Technology's Impacts with Varying Parameters in Post-NAFTA Mexico | Ross Hanig |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Ross Hanig |
| Income inequality and job satisfaction of full-time employees in Germany | Christoph Wunder |
Banberg University |
Wunder Christoph, Schwarze Johannes |
| A5. Family Economics I | |||
| The influence of work time adjustment on joint activities and the demand for child care | Chris van Klaveren |
University of Amsterdam / SEO Economic Research |
van Klaveren, Maassen van den Brink, van Praag |
| How does the Presence of Children Affect Elderly Care in a Three-Generation Family? Spanish Evidence of the "Demonstration Effect" | Miriam Marcén |
University of Zaragoza |
Marcén Miriam, Giménez José I., Molina José A. |
| Caring for Parents and Employment Status of European Mid-Life Women | Laura Crespo |
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) |
Crespo Laura |
| Health care and intra-family decisions | Denis Beninger |
ZEW Mannheim |
Beninger Denis, Steffes Susanne |
| A6. Determinants of Children Outcomes I | |||
| Does child spacing affect children's outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform | Peter Skogman Thoursie |
Stckholm University |
Pettersson-Lidbom Per, Skogman Thoursie Peter |
| Welfare and Work Participation of Single Mothers and Children's Cognitive Development | Orgul Ozturk |
University of South Carolina |
Ozturk Orgul, Chyi Hau |
| Is cohabitation bad for children? Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage on child outcomes using a siblings analysis | Marianne Sundstrom |
Stockholm University |
Sundstrom Marianne, Ginther Donna, Björklund Anders |
| The Long Run Effect of Legalizing Divorce on Child Outcomes | Libertad Gonzalez |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Gonzalez Libertad, Viitanen Tarja |