Program April 23, 2009
09.00 - 09.30 Registration and coffee

09.30 - 13.00 Session I: Demand for older workers

Welcome by Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Social and Economic Council

Chair: Lans Bovenberg, Netspar

09.30 - 10.30 Edward Lazear, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Deferred payment schemes, incentives for workers and firms and employment of older workers
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Mirjam van Praag, University of Amsterdam

  • Presentation

  • Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford
  • Presentation
  • 10.30 - 11.30 Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
    Human capital, age-earnings profiles and ageing
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Thomas Dohmen, Maastricht University

  • Presentation

  • Harry van Dalen, Tilburg University and Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
  • Presentation
  • 11.30 - 12.00 Break

    12.00 - 13.00 Gilles Saint-Paul, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse
    Employment protection, unemployment insurance and the labor market for older workers
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Egbert Jongen, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

  • Presentation

  • Marco Wilke, Social and Economic Council

    13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

    14.00 - 17.30 Session II: Supply of older workers

    Chair: Casper van Ewijk, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and Netspar

    14.00 - 15.00 Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    Labor-market participation of older workers in a life-cycle context
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Adriaan Kalwij, Utrecht School of Economics

  • Presentation

  • Bertholt Leeftink, Ministry of Economic Affairs
  • Presentation
  • 15.00 - 15.30 Break

    15.30 - 16.30 Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College
    Disability insurance, health and the employment of older workers
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Gerard van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam

  • Presentation

  • Tjerk Kroes, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

    16.30 - 17.30 Maarten Lindeboom, VU University Amsterdam and Netspar
    Health, disability and the labor market
  • Paper
  • Presentation
  • Discussants:
    Katherine Carman, Tilburg University and Netspar

  • Presentation

  • Wim Groot, Maastricht University
  • Presentation
  • 17.30 - Closing and drinks

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