NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop

 

Edward Lazear, Organizer

 

July 28 and 29, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Welcome and Introduction, EDWARD P. LAZEAR and KATHRYN SHAW

 

 

 1:15 pm

ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute

 

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Absenteeism, Gender, and Biological Differences

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

DAVID KAPLAN, ITAM

 

ERIC VERHOOGEN, Columbia University

 

Quality Upgrading and Establishment Wage Policies: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Decreasing Productivity and Increasing Profits in the Shift from Piece Rates to Continuous Flow Production

 

 

 4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 8:30 am

Welcome and Introduction, EDWARD P. LAZEAR

 

 

 8:45 am

NICK BLOOM and JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

EDWARD LAZEAR and KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER

 

Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

STEVE UTKUS, Vanguard Center for Retirement Research

 

TONGXUAN (STELLA) YANG, University of Pennsylvania

 

Better Plans for the Better-Paid: Determinants and Effects of 401(k) Plan Design

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

ALEXANDRE MAS, UC, Berkeley

 

Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

PETER MEYER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

ROBERT D. MOHR, University of New Hampshire

 

CINDY ZOGHI, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Workplace Organization and Innovation

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

TOR ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business

 

SABRINA TEYSSIER and MARIE-CLAIRE VILLEVAL, University of Lyon

 

Does Self-Selection Improve the Efficiency of Tournaments?

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6/15/05