Endconference: Work, health and retirement

Registration/Coffee

Welcome and opening speech by Didier Fouarge (ROA) / Raymond Montizaan (ROA)
Age, productivity, skills en employability
Morning chair: Raymond Montizaan (ROA)

Invited lecture: Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova)

Paper presentation session 1:

Big Data at work: Age and labor productivity in the service sector
Matthias Weiss (OTH Regensburg)
Discussant: Wendy Smits (CBS/ROA)

Coffee break

Paper presentation session 2:

The Role of Labor Demand in the Labor Market Effects of a Pension Reform
Mona Pfister (University of Würzburg)
Discussant: Thomas Post (Maastricht University)

Paper presentation session 3:

Is retirement polarized? An empirical application of the task approach to retirement in Germany
Laura Romau Gordo (DZA)
Discussant: Mark Levels (ROA)

Lunch

Afternoon chair: Didier Fouarge (ROA)
Poster Pitches

Poster presentations:

Pension reform

• Suncica Vujic (University of Antwerp)
  TWIN PEAKS: An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Pension Income in England
• Philip Jaeger (RWI)
  Pension Incentives and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
• Simon Rabaté (CPB)
  The Effects of Increasing the Normal Retirement Age: Evidence From the Netherlands
• Tunga Kantarci (Tilburg University)
  Increasing the labor market participation among older workers in the Netherlands: effects of the pension incentives, increasing retirement age, and partial retirement

Skills,Tasks and Age

• Pascal Hess (IAB)
  Technological Change and Further Training
• Davey Poulissen (ROA)
  Determinants of the willingness to train, and the role of Career plateauing, and Age
• Anneleen van de Plas  (European Commission)
  Skills of the Future, Workers of the Past?

Age Discrimination

Invited Lecture: David Neumark (University of California, Irvine)

Coffee break

Paper presentation 4:

Impact of employer characteristics and beliefs on propensity to hire older job applicants: evidence from a stated preferences experiment
Raymond Montizaan (ROA)
Discussant: Bart Golsteyn (Maastricht University)

Paper presentation 5:

What Does a Job Candidate’s Age Signal to Employers?
Hannah van Borm (Ghent University)
Discussant: Olivier Marie (Erasmus University/ROA)

Paper presentation 6:

Do informational nudges alter firms’ hiring behavior of older workers?
Pia Homrighausen (IAB)
Discussant: Lisa Brüggen (Maastricht University)

Workshop dinner