THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EFFECTIVE LABOUR LEGISLATION

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MEETING PROGRAMME

Friday 25 March

LOCATION: CHIESA DI SAN ROMANO

09.00 Coffee, Registration

Introduction by Pietro Ichino

Keynote Speeches

09.30-10.30 Using Field Experiments to Inform Labour Legislation. John List (University of Chicago)

10.30-11.30 Les limites constitutionnelles de l’expérimentation législative: la perspective du juriste européen du travail Antoine Lyon-Caen (Université de Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense)

11.30-11.50 Coffee Break

Session 1

11.50-12.30 Can Field Experiments be used to Optimize Labor Market Policies? *Lex Borghans (Maastricht University) Virgil Chitu (Maastricht University)

12.30-13.10 The States as Labor Law Laboratories: A U.S.-E.U. Comparison Matt Finkin (University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign)

13.10-14.20 Light Lunch

Session 2

14.20-15.00 Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Random Experiment Bruno Crépon (CREST) Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR) Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics) Roland Rathelot (CREST) *Philippe Zamora (CREST)

15.00-15.40 Experiments in the Open Method of Coordination. Measuring the impact of EU empolyment policies. Silvana Sciarra (University of Florence)

15.40-16.00 Coffee Break

Session 3

16.00-16.40 Self-Selection: A Tale of Wages and Job-Specific Motivation Simon Jäger (Harvard University) *Tommaso Reggiani (Università di Bologna) Paul Schempp (Universität Bonn)

16.40-17.20 Experiments in Labour Law and the System of Sources: Equality vs. Autonomy Mariella Magnani (Università degli Studi di Pavia)

17.20-17.45 Coffee Break

Roundtable

17.45 -18.15 Welcome from the Authorities

18.15-19.45 Pragmatism vs. Ideologies: the Impact on Public Opinion of Experimental Methods for the improvement of Labor Market Policies Bill Emmott (former Director, The Economist, columnist, La Stampa, author, “Forza, Italia”) Gianni Riotta (Director, il Sole24ore) will also answer questions from conference organizers and participants. Andrea Ichino moderates the discussion

20.00 Dinner

Saturday 26th March:

LOCATION: IMT

Keynote Speeches

09.30-10.30 How experiments reveal cause and effect in policy research Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10.30-11.30 The Role and the Limits of Experiments for the Advancement of Effective Labour Legislation: a Constitutional Perspective Francesco Clementi (Università di Perugia)

11.30-11.50 Coffee Break

Session 4

11.50-12.30 The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Labor-Market Outcomes of Young Workers Juan de Dios Tena Horrillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University and CEPR)

12.30-13.10 The Constitutional Bounds Deriving from the Equality Principle for Labor Law Experiments Riccardo Del Punta (University of Florence)

13.10-14.20 Light Lunch

Session 5

14.20-15.00 Difficultés Posées par l’Evaluation de L’Efficacité d’un Dispositif Juridique Qui fait l’Objet d’une Expérimentation Tatiana Sachs (Université de Nancy)

15.00-15.40 Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performances Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt) *Susanne Neckerman (Universität Mannheim)

15.40-16.00 Coffee Break

Session 6

16.00-16.40 Fair Wages and Effort: Evidence from a Field Experiment Alain Cohn (University of Zurich) Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) *Lorenz Götte (Université de Lausanne and CEPR)

16.40-17.20 Monitoring vs. Monetary Incentives in Addressing Absenteeism: Experimental Evidence Francesco D’Amuri (Banca d’Italia)

Session 7

17.40-18.20 The positive effect on labor market performance as a condition for the national law compliance with European law, in the European court of justice Massimo Pallini (University of Milan)

18.20-19.00 Fertility Discrimination in Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment *Sascha Becker (University of Warwick and CEPR) Ana Fernandes (Universität Bern)

20.00 DINNER

* Indicates the speaker.

Keynote speakers have 45 minutes for their presentation, leaving 15 minutes for general discussion. Paper presenters have 30 minutes for their presentation, leaving 10 minutes for general discussion.

Organisers:
Andrea Ichino (Università di Bologna and CEPR)
Pietro Ichino (Università Statale di Milano)
Roberto Torrini (Banca d’Italia)

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INFORMAZIONI LOGISTICHE

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Segreteria organizzativa:
Viale Carducci n. 385
(c/o Studio Legale Associato Cattani)
55100 Lucca LU Italia
tel. 0583.418068  fax 0583.316404
tel. 0583.316024 (Ufficio Stampa)

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