NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop
Edward Lazear, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 1- 2, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Introduction
EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER
1:30 PM Denmark
TOR ERIKSSON and NEILS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN,
Aarhus School of Business
1:50 PM Sweden
EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, MIT
2:10 PM Norway
KJEL SALVANES, Norwegian School of Business
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Germany
LUTZ BELLMAN, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt
3:20 PM United States
JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
3:40 PM France
SEBASTIEN PEREZ-DUARTE, INSEE - CREST
4:00 PM WorldAtWork Data
KEVIN MURPHY, University of Southern California
4:20 PM Productivity
KATHRYN SHAW, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
4:40 PM Adjourn
7:00 PM Dinner - Location to Be Announced
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM PAUL OYER, Stanford University
Title To Be Announced
9:30 AM MIKE GIBBS and KATHY IERULLI, University of Chicago
EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, MIT
Internal Labor Markets: Cross-Firm Evidence from Sweden
10:00 AM MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER
Changing Incentives for Production Employees: Impacts on Productivity and Worker Satisfaction
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM PAUL LENGERMANN and LARS VILHUBER, Bureau of the Census
The Creation of the Employment Dynamics Estimates
11:30 AM ILLOONG KWON, University of Michigan
Threat of Dismissal: Incentive or Sorting?
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM PAUL BINGLEY and NIELS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN,
Aarhus School of Business
Tenure and Firm-Specific Human Capital
1:30 PM KEVIN MCKINNEY and KRISTIN SANDUSKY, Bureau of the Census
2:00 PM ANDREW WARNER, Harvard University
International Wage Determination and Globalization
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER
Title To Be Announced
3:30 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
Title To Be Announced
4:00 PM Adjourn
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