NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Empirical
Personnel Economics Workshop
Edward Lazear, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 31August 1, 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY,
JULY 30:
6:00 PM Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY,
JULY 31:
12:00 N Lunch
12:45 PM ARNGRIM HUNNES, JARLE MØEN, AND KJELL GUNNAR SALVANES,
Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration
Ports
of Entry: The Norwegian Case
1:30 PM LUCIAN
BEBCHUK, Harvard University and NBER
The Costs of
Permitting Managers to Sell Shares
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM KEVIN
STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Playing for Keeps:
Pay and Performance in the NBA
3:15 PM MARTHA
STINSON, Bureau of the Census
Estimating the Relationship between Employer-Provided
Health Insurance, Worker Mobility, and Wages
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM TOR
ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business
AXEL WERWATZ, Humboldt
University, Berlin
The Prevalence of
Internal Labour Markets New Evidence from Panel Data
5:00 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 1:
JOINT
SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:00 AM Coffee and
Pastries
8:30 AM BRUCE
FALLICK and CHARLES FLEISCHMAN, Federal Reserve Board
JAMES REBITZER, Case
Western Reserve University and NBER
Job Hopping in Silicon Valley:
The Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
9:15 AM Break
9:30 AM EDWARD
LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER
Firm-Specific Human
Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
10:15 AM GEORGE BAKER and NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University and NBER
Wage
Policies and Investments in Firm Specific Human Capital
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM SIMON WOODCOCK, Bureau of the Census
Heterogeneity and Learning in Labor Markets
12:15 N Lunch
1:15 PM JOHN ABOWD,
Cornell University
PAUL
LENGERMANN, Federal Reserve Board
KEVIN
McKINNEY, Bureau of the Census
The
Measurement of Human Capital in the US Economy
2:00 PM JED DeVARO,
Cornell University
Internal
Promotion Competitions in Firms
2:45 PM Break
3:15 PM DAVID AUTOR,
MIT and NBER
Weeding
out the Bad Apples? Screening for
Hourly Wage Jobs
4:00 PM MICHAEL
GIBBS and KATHRYN IERULLI, University of Chicago
EVA
MEYERSSON MILGROM, Stanford University
Firm Characteristics and Careers
4:45 PM Adjourn