ELSA SEMINAR SERIES

The OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate has launched in September 2008 a series of seminars open to both external and internal speakers. It is intended to be an informal forum for discussion of policy-oriented empirical research work among policy-makers, academics and OECD staff. The Seminars Series covers a broad range of topics including labour, social, migration and health issues.

Seminars last for 1 hour and 15 minutes and usually take place in the OECD Conference Centre. Those wishing to attend please contact Claire Gibbons (claire.gibbons@oecd.org, tel: 01 45 24 93 51)

Forthcoming Seminars
4 February 2010
John van Reenen (Director of CEP, LSE, CEPR and NBER)
Title: TBA
Location: Room CC16, Time: 16.00

19 March 2010
Tito Boeri (Bocconi University, CEPR and IZA)
Title: TBA
Location: Room CC18, Time: 12.00

15 April 2010
Jan van Ours (Tilburg University, University of Melbourne, CEPR and IZA)
Title: TBA
Location: Room CC18, Time: 11.00

20 May 2010
David Autor (MIT and NBER)
Title: TBA
Location: Room CC18, Time: 16.00

Past Seminars
16 November 2009
Karen Roiy (Confederation of Danish Employers)
"Vocational education, dropout and further employment"
Location: Room Mona RC03, Time: 12.00
Presentation

27 October 2009
Vincent Corluy(*), Ive Marx(*) and Gerlinde Verbist(*)(**)
(*)Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium; (**)OECD, ELS/SPD
"Economic Mobility Trajectories of Regularised Migrants in Belgium"
Location: Room CC18, Time: 11.00
Abstract

15 September 2009
Stephen Whitefield and Chiara Binelli (Oxford University)
"Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe"
Location: Room CC18, Time: 11.00
Abstract

26 June 2009
Bruno Palier (CEVIPOF, SciencesPo, Paris) and Wim van Oorschot (Tilburg University)
"Reconciling work and welfare, new data, new research"
Location: Room D (Château), Time: 10.00
Abstract

10 June 2009
David Gray (University of Ottawa)
"Displacement of older workers: re-employment, hastened retirement, disability, or other destinations?"
Location: Room CC18, Time: 12.00
Paper

28 May 2009
Josef Zweimüller (University of  Zürich, CEPR and IZA)
"Do Active Labour Market Programmes Increase the Probability of Job Interviews?"
Location: Room E (Château), Time: 16.00
Paper

27 March 2009
Herbert Bruecker (IAB, Nuremberg) and Elke Jahn (University of Aarhus)
"The employment and wage effects of immigration in the host country: a structural approach"
Location: Room CC18, Time: 12.00
Paper

5 March 2009
Alex Bryson (NIESR, London)
"A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway"
Location : Room CC18, Time: 16.00
Paper

12 February 2009
Andrea Ichino (University of Bologna, CEPR and IZA)
"Gender-based taxation"
Location: Room CC18, Time: 16.00
Paper

11 December 2008
Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin, CEPR and IZA)
“EMU and labour markets”
Location: Room D (Château), Time: 16.00
Paper

26 November 2008
Giorgio Brunello (University of Padua, CESIfo and IZA)
“Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe”
Location: Room CC18, Time: 16.00
Paper

23 October 2008
Anna Sanz de Galdeano (University of Girona and IZA)
“The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective”
Location: Room Mona RC03, Time: 16.00
Paper

25 September 2008
Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po, CEPR and IZA)
"Do Employees really gain from strong employment protection? Workplace stress and Labour Market Institutions"
Location: Room CC13, Time: 12.00
Paper