NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Empirical Personnel Economics Meeting

Edward Lazear, Organizer

April 17, 2004

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 16:

7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, APRIL 17:

7:30 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

7:45 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

7:45 AM Continental Breakfast

8:15 AM Welcome and Introduction

EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

KATHRYN SHAW, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

8:30 AM HOLGER ALDA and LUTZ BELLMAN, Institute of Employment Research, Germany

9:15 AM Break

9:30 AM PER-ANDERS EDIN, Uppsala University, Sweden and NBER

BERTIL HOLMLUND, Uppsala University, Sweden

OSKAR NORDSTRÖM SKANS, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Sweden

10:15 AM PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM ARNGRIM HUNNES, JARLE MØEN, and

KJELL SALVANES, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM ROOPE UUSITALO, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Finland

JUHANA VARTIAINEN, Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Sweden

2:00 PM ANDERS AAGAARD and NIELS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN, Aarhus School of Business

2:45 PM Break

3:15 PM FRANCIS KRAMARZ and SEBASTIEN PEREZ-DUARTE, CREST-INSEE

4:00 PM JOHN ABOWD, Cornell University and NBER

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

JULIA LANE, U.S. Census Bureau

Wage Structure in the United States

4:45 PM Adjourn

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