Ghent University & UCLouvain Workshop
"Monitoring, Counseling and Sanctions : Structural and Reduced Form Evaluation"
April 29-30, 2010 in Gent (Belgium)
Organizers : Bart Cockx (Sherppa, Ghent U, and IRES, UCLouvain), Muriel Dejemeppe and Bruno Van der Linden (IRES, UClouvain).
Venue : Ghent River hotel, Waaistraat 5, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Program
Thursday April 29
11.30 - 13.00 Lunch and welcome
Session 1: The Threat Effect of Monitoring and Sanctions
13.00 - 13.40 Per Engström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
“Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: a randomized experiment 
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(with P. Hesselius and B. Holmlund)
13.40 - 14.20 Barbara Hofmann (Institute for Employment Research, Germany)
“Tightening the use of unemployment benefit sanctions - does it speed up the exit to work? Evidence from a policy change ”
14.20 - 15.00 Bart Cockx (Sherppa, Ghent University and IRES, UCLouvain, Belgium):
“Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach”
(with M. Dejemeppe)
15.00 - 15.30 Break
Session 2: The Effect of Monitoring, Counseling and Sanctions on Job Quality (1)
15.30 - 16.10 Knut Roed (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Oslo, Norway)
“Unemployment insurance in welfare states - how can we contain the moral hazard problem? ”
(with S. Gaure and L. Westlie)
16.10 - 16.50 Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
“How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit ”
(with P. Arni and J. van Ours)
16.50 - 17.10 Break
Keynote
17.10 - 18.20 Bruno Crépon (CREST-INSEE, France):
"Private or public counseling of jobseekers : lessons from a large randomized experiment" (with L. Behaghel and M. Gurgand)
19.00 - 22.30 Culinary walk through the historic centre of Ghent
Friday April 30
Session 3: Simulation and Estimation of Structural Models
9.00 - 9.40 Conny Wunsch (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)
“Optimal Monitoring and Sanctioning Systems”
9.40 - 10.20 Pieter Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
“Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-employed Workers Search Enough?”
(with J. L. Moraga-Gonzalez and R. P. Wolthoff)
10.20 - 11.00 Andrey Launov (University of Würzburg, Germany, and IRES, UCLouvain):
“Monitoring and Sanctions in a Non-Stationary Structural Job-Search Model”
(with B. Cockx, M. Dejemeppe and B. Van der Linden)
11.00 - 11.30 Break
Session 4: The Effect of Monitoring, Counseling and Sanctions on Job Quality (2)
11.30 - 12.10 Thomas Walter (ZEW Mannheim, Germany)
“Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment? " (with B. Boockmann and S. L. Thomsen)
12.10 - 12.50 Johan Vikström (IFAU, Sweden)
“Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality ”
(with G. van den Berg)
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Optional : guided tour through the historic centre with a visit to St Baafs cathedral including the famous painting “the adoration of the mystic lamb” of the Van Eyck brothers .
The workshop is organised within the frame of a research project financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office, research programme "Society and Future" (Grant TA/00/11 on "Evaluation of the activation of job-seeking behaviour").
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