NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop

Kathryn Shaw, Organizer

July 27 and 28, 2006

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JULY 27
12:00 n	Lunch- Ballroom B
1:00 pm	Welcome and Introduction, KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
1:15 pm	WEI CHI, Tsinghua University and Kansas State University
	RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER
	MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Policies
2:15 pm	ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute
	GUIDO SCHWERDT, European Central Bank
	RUDOLF WINTER-EBMER, University of Linz
	JOSEF ZWEIMÜLLER, University of Zurich
	Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	ANDERS FREDERIKSEN, Stanford University
	ELÕD TAKÁTS, Princeton University
	Layoffs as Part of an Optimal Incentive Mix: Theory and Evidence
4:30 pm	SAMIR RAZA and MARK UBELHART, Hewitt Associates
	Hewitts’ Mountain of Individual and Company Data – Its Uses in Human Capital Diagnositcs, Linked to Business Results
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6/30/06
FRIDAY, JULY 28:
JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:30 am	Welcome and Introduction, KATHRYN SHAW
8:45 am	XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
	AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University
	Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	FREDERICK ANDERSSON, Cornell University
	MATTHEW FREEDMAN, University of Maryland
	JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
	JULIA LANE, NORC
	KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
	Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER
	Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
12:15 pm	Lunch- Ball room B
1:15 pm	VINCENTE CUÑAT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University
	Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	ALEXANDRE MAS and ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Peers at Work
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University
	DANIEL SULLIVAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	Mortality, Socio-Economic Status, and Mass-Layoffs: An Analysis using Administrative Data
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6/23/06