Julián Messina

III Workshop in Public Policy Design. Institutions and Labor Markets

May 25-26, 2007 - University of Gerona

Organizers: Julián Messina / Anna Sanz de Galdeano

Program

Friday, May 25

09.00-09.15. Welcome

PART I. Institutions and Financial Markets

09.15-10.15

Andrea Caggese (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) “Financing Constraints and Fixed Term Employment Contracts” with Vicente Cuñat (UPF)

Discussant: Marco Leonardi (Università Statale di Milano and IZA)

10.15-11.15

Anna lo Prete (Università de Torino) “National Institutions and International Macroeconomics: Within country risk reallocation under incomplete markets”

Discussant: Luca Nunziata (University of Padova and IZA)

11.15-11.45. Coffee Break

PART II. Labour Markets, Mobility and Institutions

11.45-12.45. Invited Lecture

Giuseppe Bertola (Università de Torino) “Offshoring and Immigrant Employment: Firm-level theory and evidence” with Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Università di Milano) and Alessandro Sembenelli (Università di Torino).

Discussant: Julián Messina (Universitat de Girona and IZA)

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00

Yolanda Rebollo Sanz (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) “The use of permanent contracts across Spanish regions: Do regional wage subsidies work?” with J. Ignacio García Pérez (UPO & FCEA & FEDEA)

Discussant: Florentino Felgueroso (Universidad de Oviedo, FEDEA and CEPR)

15.00-16.00

Michèle Belot (Department of Economics and ISER, University of Essex) “Cultural and institutional barriers in migration between OECD countries” with Sjef Ederveen (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

Discussant: Chiara Strozzi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and IZA)

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 -17.30

Alexandre Janiak (ECARES-ULB) “Local social capital, geographical mobility and unemployment in Europe” with David Quentin (ECARES-ULB) and Etienne Wasmer (CIRPÉE-UQAM, IZA and CEPR)

Discussant: Sebastian Kessing (Social Science Research Centre-WZB)

17.30-18.30

Marco Leonardi (Università Statale di Milano and IZA) “Employment Protection Legislation and Wages” with Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno, CSEF and IZA)

Discussant: Anna Sanz de Galdeano (Universitat de Girona and IZA)

20.30- Workshop Dinner. Restaurant “Casa Marieta”

Saturday, May 26th

PART III. Product Market Regulations, Institutions and Firms´ Behaviour

09.30-10.30

Andrea Bassanini (OECD, CEPN, Paris 13 and ERMES, Paris 2) “Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training” with Giorgio Brunello (Padova, KIER Kyoto, IZA and CESifo)

Discussant: Giovanna Vallanti (Università Luiss “Guido Carli”)

10.30-11.30

Julien Prat (University of Vienna) “Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment” with Gabriel Felbermayr (Tubingen University)

Discussant: Marcel Jansen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and IZA)

11.30-12.00. Coffee Break

12.00-13.00. Invited Lecture

Eric Bartelsman (Free University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) “Cross Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocative Efficiency”, with John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland, US Census Bureau, NBER and IZA) and Stefano Scarpetta (World Bank and IZA)

Discussant: Andrea Caggese (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

13.00-14.15. Lunch and end of the Workshop