Eindconferentie: Werk, gezondheid en pensioen

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

Morning chair: Andries de Grip (ROA)
Pension Retirement

Invited lecture: Marike Knoef (Leiden university & Netspar)

Poster Pitches

Coffee break

Poster presentations:
Health, retirement and family

1. Michele Belloni (University of Turin)
   Long-term effects of acute health shocks on labour market outcomes: analysis on blue-collar Italian employees
2. Dirk Scheele (Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment)
   Extending work life and age related health impairments
3. Birgit Bleimer (University of Mains)
   No “Honeymoon Phase” Whose health benefits from retirement and when
4. Andreas Backhaus (Centre for European Policy Studies)
   The effect of grandchildren on grandparental labour supply: Evidence from Europe

Paper presentation session 7:

Technology Adoption and Human Capital Accumulation: An Exactly Solved Framework for Unifying the Empirics on Automation and Education
Danial Ali Akbariy (Lund University)
Discussant: Joan Musyken (Maastricht University)

Paper presentation session 8:

Idle time before retirement: resting or studying? An evaluation of part-time work
Insa Weilage (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Discussant: Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University)

Closing remarks

Lunch