Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

3rd User Conference on the Analysis of BA and IAB Data: Program and Download

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Thursday, December 04

13:30 - 16:30 Introduction to the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) / 1st User Workshop

18:00 - 20:00 Guided tour in Nuremberg, meeting point: old town-hall / main entry (alternative: Ramada hotel lobby at 17:30)

20:00 Get-together at the restaurant 'Zur Baumwolle', Adlerstrasse 18-20, Nuremberg

Friday, December 05

08:45 – 09:15 Registration

09:15 – 09:30 Welcome

09:30 – 10:05 SESSION A

• RAYMUNDO M. CAMPOS-VÁZQUEZ (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Substitutability of Immigrant and Native Labor: Evidence at the Establishment Level

10:05 – 10:20 Break

10:20 – 12:05

SESSION B: Job Mobility

• HANS DIETRICH (Institute for Employment Research)
  Firm specific training strategies and labour market success – Apprenticeship Training in Germany
• STEFAN SCHNECK (University of Hannover)
  Are Individuals Optimizing Their Wage Path? An Analysis On The Performance of Employer-to-Employer Mobility
• LJUBICA NEDELKOSKA (Zentrum University of Jena) / Florian Noseleit
  Industry Dynamics and Highly Qualified Labor Mobility

SESSION C: Start Ups

• JOCHEN SPAETH (Institute for Applied Economic Research) / Andreas Koch
  Does the quality of employment differ between new and incumbent firms? First results for Germany based on the Establishment History Panel
• KATHARINA FROSCH (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
  Demographic Change and Start-up Activity in German Districts: A Human Capital Perspective
• FLORIAN NOSELEIT (University of Jena) / Michael Fritsch
  Start-ups, New Business Employment, and the Effects on Incumbents: Who Contributes the Larger Share? 

12:05 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:45

SESSION D: Globalisation

• DAMIAN RAESS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) / Brian Burgoon
  Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in an Open Economy
• CHRISTOPH MOSER (University of Mainz) / Dieter Urban / Beatrice Weder di Mauro
  Offshoring, Firm Performance and Employment – Evidence from German Establishment Data
• DANIEL BAUMGARTEN (Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, c./o. RWI Essen)
  International Outsourcing, the  Nature of Tasks and Occupational Stability in Germany

SESSION E: Regional Markets

• EVA MÜLLER (University of Mannheim) / Walter A. Oechsler
  The Development of Business and Employment Structures in the Rhine-Neckar-Metropolitan Region
• YVONNE SCHINDELE (University of Jena) / Michael Fritsch
  The Contribution of New Businesses to Regional Employment – An Empirical Analysis of the Direct Employment Effects
• NILS BRAAKMANN (Leuphana University Lueneburg)
  Crime does pay (at least when it’s violent)! – On the compensating wage differentials of high regional crime levels

14:45 – 16:00

POSTER SESSION

• RAYMUNDO M. CAMPOS-VÁZQUEZ (University of California, Berkeley) Relative Productivity and Relative Wages of Immigrants in Germany
• MARTINA OERTEL / ULRICH THOMSEN (Institute for Employment Research)
  Process generated Research Data from the Basic Income Support System
• BARBARA SCHWENGLER (Institute for Employment Research) / Kerstin Bruckmeier The impact of federal social policies on spatial income inequalities in Germany
• MICHAEL MORITZ (Institute for Employment Research) The Impact of European Integration on Wage Differentials in the Bavarian-Czech Border Region
• DAGMAR LÜCK-SCHNEIDER (Fachhochschule des Bundes) Arbeitsmarktentwicklungen in ausgewählten kleineren Arbeitsmarktausschnitten
• PER KROPP, BARBARA SCHWENGLER (Institute for Employment Research) Abgrenzung von Wirtschaftsräumen auf der Grundlage von Pendlerverflechtungen: Ein Methodenvergleich
• MICHAEL WYRWICH (University of Jena)
  Determinants of rapidly growing firms in East Germany: An empirical investigation
• NILS DREWS, DIRK OBERSCHACHTSIEK (Institute for Employment Research)
  Discussion of selected issues of data quality
• PETER JACOBEBBINGHAUS (Institute for Employment Research)
  News from the Research Data Centre

16:00 – 17:10

SESSION F: Professions

• CORINNA KLEINERT / BRITTA MATTHES (Institute for Employment Research)
  Educational expansion, segregation and occupational placement of women and men – Gender specific changes in entry jobs’ prestige and wages

SESSION G: Employment Dynamics

• RONALD BACHMANN (RWI Essen) / Peggy David
  The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
• SUSANNE STEFFES (Centre for European Economic Research)
  Job Stability and the Business Cycle

17:10 – 17:25 Break

17:25 – 18:35

SESSION H: Wages

• THOMAS ZWICK (University of Munich)
  The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages
• NICOLE GUERTZGEN (Centre for European Economic Research)
  Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers’ Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions

SESSION I: Firms

• STEFFEN MUELLER (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  Capital stock approximation using firm level panel data: A modified perpetual inventory approach
• DOUGLAS H. FRANK (INSEAD)
  Are Technological and Organizational Change Still Skill Biased? Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

19:20 Conference dinner at restaurant ‘Bauhof’ (There will be shuttle buses to ‘Bauhof’ at 18:50)

Saturday, December 06

09:30 – 10:05 SESSION J

• DIETER URBAN (University of Mainz) / Christoph Moser, Beatrice Weder di Mauro
  International Competitiveness, Job Creation and Job Destruction - An Establishment Level Study of German Job Flows

10:05 – 10:20 Break

10:20 – 11:30

SESSION K: Labour Productivity

• CHRISTIAN GÖBEL (Centre for European Economic Research) / Thomas Zwick
  Age and Productivity: Evidence from Linked Employer Employee Data
• STEPHAN BRUNOW (University of Dresden) / Georg Hirte
  Productivity, Age Structure and Monopolistic Competition: An Econometric Study for German Regions

SESSION L: Collective Bargaining

• WOLF DIETER HEINBACH / STEFANIE SCHRÖPFER (University of Hohenheim)
  What a Difference Trade Makes: Export Activity and the Flexibility of Collective Bargaining Agreements
• JENS MOHRENWEISER (Institut University of Zurich) / Uschi Backes-Gellner / Paul Marginson
  What Triggers the Establishment of a Works Council?

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 13:40

SESSION M: Methods

• CHRISTINA GATHMANN (Stanford University) / Uta Schönberg
  How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
• MARIE WALLER (University of Freiburg)
  Further Training for the Unemployed - What Can We Learn about Dropouts from Administrative Data?

SESSION N: Low Wages

• THOMAS RHEIN (Institute for Employment Research) / Carola Grün / Hedwig Lutz / Helmut Mahringer
  Being low paid: Springboard or dead end? Evidence from administrative data in Germany and Austria
• JENS STEPHANI (Institute for Employment Research) / Thorsten Schank / Claus Schnabel
  Geringverdiener: Wem und wie gelingt der Aufstieg?

13:40 – 13:45 Break

13:45 – 14:20 SESSION O

• ALFRED GARLOFF (Institute for Employment Research) / Nicole Gürtzgen
  Collective Wage Contracts, Opt-Out Clauses and Firm Wage-Differentials: Evidence from Linked Employer Employee Data

14:20 – 14:35 Goodbye

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