Mainz Workshop in Labour Economics: New Developments in the Theory of a Frictional Labour Market

 May 9, 2011

University of Mainz Campus / Dekanatssaal

Jakob-Welder-Weg 9, 55128 Mainz

Workshop Program

Keynote speech: Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania / London School of Economics)

(The workshop is public and open to all)

 

Sunday, the 8th of May, 2011
   
19:00 Workshop Dinner at Ristorante Incontro
   
Monday, the 9th of May, 2011
   
08:50 - 09:00  Welcome and Introduction
   
  Session A:
09:00 - 10:00 Optimal Saving in Frictional Labour Markets

Klaus Wälde (University of Mainz)
10:00 - 11:00 Minimum Wage Spillover Effects and Social Welfare in a Model of Stochastic Job Matching

Panagiotis Nanos (University of Southampton)
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
   
  Session B:
11:30 - 12:30 Wage and Price Dispersion: On-the-Job-Search Meets Monopolistic Competition

Angela Fiedler (University of Frankfurt)
12:30 - 13:30 Endogenous On-the-job Search and Frictional Wage Dispersion

Matthias Hertweck (University of Konstanz)
   
13:30 - 14:30 Sandwich Lunch
   
  Session C:
14:30 - 15:30 "Give me your Tired, your Poor," so I can Prosper: Immigration in Search Equilibrium

Andri Chassamboulli (University of Cyprus)
15:30 -16:30 Directed Search over the Life Cycle

Ludo Visshers (Simon Fraser University / Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
   
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
   
  Keynote Speech
17:00 - 18:00 Sorting and Factor Intensity: Production and Unemployment across Skills

Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania / London School of Economics)
   
  End of the Workshop

 

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