NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Personnel Economics Meeting



Edward Lazear, Organizer



March 6-7, 2003



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 6:



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Ave.



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

PAUL OYER, Stanford University

Ports of Entry



9:45 AM AUDRA BOWLUS, University of Western Ontario

LARS VILHUBER, Cornell University

Displaced Workers, Early Leavers, and Re-Employment Wages



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM STEFFEN HUCK, University College London

DOROTHEA KÜBLER, Humboldt University Berlin

JÖRGEN WEIBULL, Boston University

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms



11:45 AM Lunch



1:00 PM ILLOONG KWON, University of Michigan

EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, Stanford University

Occupation Structure and the Boundary of (Internal) Labor Markets: Do We Have the Empirical Facts Right?



1:45 PM CHRISTIAN GRUND, University of Bonn

The Wage Policy of Firms:

Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data



2:30 PM Break



2:45 PM ANDERS FREDERIKSEN and NIELS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN, Aarhus School of Business

Where Did They Go?



3:30 PM Adjourn



7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel





FRIDAY, MARCH 7:



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Ave.



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM ANN BARTEL and CASEY ICHNIOWSKI, Columbia University and NBER

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER

The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes



9:45 AM PAUL LENGERMANN, Federal Reserve Board

Is it Who You Are, Where You Work, or With Whom You Work?

Reassessing the Relationship Between Skill Segregation and Wage Inequality



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM TOR ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business

JAIME ORTEGA, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The Adoption of Job Rotation: Testing the Theories



11:45 AM Lunch



1:00 PM AMOS GOLAN, American University

JULIA LANE, Urban Institute

The Dynamics of Worker Reallocation: A Markov Approach



1:45 PM Break



2:00 PM Open Discussion



3:30 PM Adjourn