Archives for IRES
March 21, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Gianluca Orefice (CEPII)
Gianluca Orefice
(CEPII)
will give a presentation on
Immigration and Worker-Firm matching
Abstract:The matching between firm and workers is an important mechanism affecting average productivity and wage dispersion. Denser and more diversified labor markets may encourage positive...
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IRES Lunch Seminar
Mathilde Valero (AMSE)
Mathilde Valero
(AMSE)
will give a presentation on
Household Income Shocks and Sibling Composition: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Abstract: Exploiting exogenous variation in drought conditions across districts in Tanzania, this paper investigates the effects of climate change on...
Click to know more March 14, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Regina Riphahn ( Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Regina T. Riphahn
(Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Will give a presentation on
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Abstract: This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar
John Roemer
John Roemer
(Yale University)
will gave a presentation on
How we cooperate: A theory of Kantian optimization
Abstract: Economic theory has focused almost exclusively on how humans compete with each other in their economic activity, culminating in general equilibrium...
Click to know more March 07, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Matthias Doepke
Matthias Dopeke
(Northwestern University)
will give a presentation on
Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe
Abstract: Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a sharp rise in the college wage premium....
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