NERO Meeting, 6 July 2001 - Agenda and papers

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OECD NERO MEETING
Held in the OECD Headquarter, Chateau, Room D, Paris,
6th July 2001

Themes: International migration, the economic consequences of ageing

*9:30 - 9:45*	*Introductory remarks by Mr Visco, OECD Chief Economist*
*9:45 - 10:45*	*The economics of international migration: the US experience* Overview of immigration in the United States, its economic impact and policy implications George Borjas, NBER, United States Does immigration grease the wheels of the labor market? Comments, questions and answers
*10:45 - 12:00*	*The economics of international migration: the European experience* Migration and eastern enlargement of the EU Tito Boeri, IGIER, Italy Labour migration in the EU R. A de Mooij, CPB, Netherlands Migration in Europe Comments, questions and answers
*12.00 - 13:00*	*OECD and other NERO work on international migration* Trade and migration Stephen Yeo, CEPR Mr Jean Pierre Garson and Jean Christophe Dumont, Directorate for Employment, Education and Social Affairs Mr Jonathan Coppel, Economics Department The employment of foreigners: outlook and issues in OECD countries Other NERO work on international migration
*13:00 - 14:30*	*Buffet lunch*
*14:30 - 15:45*	*Ageing and public finance* Will the baby boomers bust the health budget? Jack Mintz, CD Howe Institute, Canada Inter-generational imbalances associated with demographic ageing Martin Werding, CESIFO, Germany Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes Fiscal implications of ageing: projections of age-related expenditure Howard Oxley, Senior Economist, OECD Comments, questions and answers
*15:45 - 16:45*	*Ageing, savings and capital flows* Ageing and international capital flows in an overlapping-generations, computable general equilivrium model of the world economy Jacques Le Cacheux, OFCE, France INGENUE, a multi-regional, computable general equilibrium, overlapping generations model Taxation of income from capital and public policy Martin Weale, NIESR, United Kingdom
*16:45 - 17:45*	*Other economic consequences of ageing* The relationship between an ageing workforce and ICT and their impact on technological progress Kiyohiko Nishimura, Tokyo Center for Economic Research, Japan Effects of information technology on labor demand and technological progress in Japanese manufacturing, 1980-1988 Review of systems of retirement income provision in nine OECD countries Peter Hicks, Senior Economist, OECD Comments, questions and answers Other NERO work on ageing