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Program 2020Sunday, January 12, 2020 17:15 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona railway station (train station Porta Nuova) 18:00 Departure of the shuttle bus from Verona airport (Catullo airport) 20:40 Arrival and dinner
Monday January 13, 2020 (Chair: Claudio Zoli, University of Verona) 08:45 - 09:00 Welcome Address 09:00 - 11:15 Stephen Jenkins (LSE): “Better Off? Distributional comparisons for ordinal data” Reading list - Slides 11:20 - 12:00 Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and LIS): "Unpacking inequality dimensions: The 2020 LIS Annual Report on Inequality"
15:30 - 16:30 Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and LIS): “Competences, wages and inequality” Slides 16:45 - 18:00 Laurent Simula (ENS Lyon): “Taxation and migration” 18:00 - 19:00 Presentations: - Luis Eduardo Rojas Dueñas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Optimal Redistribution with a Shadow Economy” - Paul Hufe (University of Munich): Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments” - Larissa Zierow (ifo Institute): “The Impact of All-Day Schools on Students' Skills Evidence from Extending School-Days in German Primary Schools” 19:00 - 19:25 Posters presentations
21:30 Social Evening - Poster Session I (11 posters): - Juho Alasalmi (University of Konstanz): “Motivated Prospects of Upward Mobility” - Thanh Bui (University of Manchester): “The role of secondary town on household's welfare and poverty reduction: Evidences from Vietnam” - Begoña Cabeza (University of Antwerp): “Desert concerns and distributional preferences” - Amedeo Fuenmayor (University of Valencia): “A Negative Income Tax for Spain: Labour Supply Effects” - Leonie Koch (University of Munich): “The Impact of Parental Leave Benefits on Pre-Birth Earnings” - Domenico Moramarco (Université Libre de Bruxelles ) “Equality of opportunity for welfare: combining outcome-selective and opportunity egalitarianism” - Pedro Salas-Rojo (Complutense University Madrid): “Inequality of opportunity in Spain: new insights from new data” - Petra Sauer (LISER): “Do migrants have access to decent work?”. - Matteo Targa (DIW Berlin): “De-routinization of Jobs and Polarization of Earnings. Evidence from 35 Countries All Over the World” - Emilia Toczydlowska (University of Luxembourg/LISER): “Drivers of Income Inequality in Luxembourg: Isolating the Roles of Policy, Demography, Market Returns and Labour Market Structure” - Georg Treuter (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University): “Describing and Decomposing Income Inequality Trends in Rich Countries”
Tuesday January 14, 2020 (Chair: Ernesto Savaglio, University of Pescara) 08:45 - 10:45 Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University): "Closely-held business taxation and inequality trends" Reading list - Slides Slides2 10:50 - 11:40 Philippe Van Kerm (LISER and University of Luxembourg): "Wealth inequality measurement: Methods and evidence from HFCS" Reading list - Slides 11:40 - 12:00 Presentation: - Zareh Asatryan (ZEW, Mannheim): “Austerity and Distributional Policy”
15:00 - 15:50 Laboratory session: Paolo Brunori (University of Florence) : "Machine Learning approaches for inequality decomposition I". Reading list 16:00 - 17:00 Elena Barcena (University of Malaga): “Minimum income schemes and redistribution” Reading list - Slides 17:15 - 18:30 Andreas Peichl (CESifo and LMU) : “Optimal taxation” Reading list Slides 18:30 - 19:20 Presentations: - Holger Lüthen (FU Berlin): “Family Policies and Child-Related Earnings Gaps in Germany” - Martin Ungerer (ZEW, Mannheim): “Jobs, Crime, and Votes - A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany” - Shuai Chen (LISER) “Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism: Evidence from Two Quasi-Natural Experiments in the United States”
Wednesday January 15, 2020 (Chair: Flaviana Palmisano, University of Rome "La Sapienza") 08:45 - 10:45 Clemens Fuest (CESifo and LMU): "Tax incidence and inequality" Reading list 10:55 - 11:15 Presentation: - Carla Krolage (ifo Institute and LMU Munich): "The effects of real estate purchase subsidies on property prices" 11:15 - 11:45 ECINEQ General Assembly
15:00 - 15:50 Laboratory session: Paolo Brunori (University of Florence) : "Machine Learning approaches for inequality decomposition II". Reading list 16:00 - 17:15 Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University): “Gender inequality in politics” Reading list Slides 17:30 - 18:45 Hillel Rapoport (PSE): “Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe” Reading list Paper 1 Paper 2 18:50 - 19:15 Posters presentations
21:30 Social Evening/Poster Session II (11 posters): - Mehmet Ayaz (University of Munich): “Wealth Taxation versus Capital Income Taxation” - Rafael Carranza (LSE): “Inequality and Economic Growth: New Evidence using Upper Bounds Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity - Hugo del Valle-Inclan Cruces (University of Vigo): “Estimating inequality of opportunity in many new periods: the capital income approach” - Jana Emmenegger (Federal Statistical Office of Germany): “Analysing spatial income inequalities in Germany based on matched microcensus and taxpayer panel data” - Katia Gallegos Torres (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research): “The electoral winners of refugee migration in Germany: evidence from a natural experiment and subjective beliefs. - Amaia Palencia Esteban (University of Vigo): “Occupational segregation of female and male immigrants in the European Union: accounting for cross-country differences” - Philipp Pointner (Vienna University of Economics and Business): “Effects of the ECBs Unconventional Monetary Policy on Real and Financial Wealth” - Severin Rapp (Vienna University of Economics and Business): “Minding the Gap: How Welfare States Mediate the Dynamics Between Income and Consumption Distribution” - Manuel Schechtl (Humboldt University Berlin): “The taxation of families: Horizontal redistribution between family types across welfare regimes” - Mateo Serè (University of Antwerp): “Does retirement improves individual well-being” - Daniel Weishaar (University of Munich, LMU): “Saving at the Limit: Life Cycle Effects of Asset Means Testing in the German Welfare System”
Thursday January 16, 2020 (Chair: Eugenio Peluso, LISER and University of Verona) 08:45 - 10:45 Frederic Docquier (LISER) “Inequality, migration and the weather" Reading list Slides 11:00 – 12.00 Ravi Pendakur (University of Ottawa): "Attitudes to the mono-plural-ism divide: an investigation into the views of Swedish students" Reading list - Slides Slides2
16:00 - 18:00 Hillel Rapoport (PSE): "Migration and cultural change” Reading list 18:10 – 18:30 Presentation: - Ole Agersnap (Princeton University): “The welfare magnet hypothesis: evidence from an immigrant welfare scheme in Denmark” 18:30 - 18:50 Posters presentations
19:30 Poster Session III (9 posters): - Kundu Anustup (UNU WIDER) “Identifying the Behavioral Aspects Behind Missing Microinsurance Market -Evidence from India” - Tommaso Bechini (Sapienza Università di Roma) “The Multidimentional Well-Being Inequality Index” - Pablo De la Vega Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid) “Choosing a job: who influences you the most, parents or friends?” - Jakob Miethe (University of Munich, LMU) “The elusive banker: using hurricanes to uncover (non-) activity in offshore financial centers” - Jannek Muehlhan (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) “Inequality of disposable income in Germany: a decomposition” - Zaira Najam (University of Waikato) “The Sensitivity of Poverty Trends to Dimensionality and Distribution Sensitivity and the effect of Inequality: Evidence from Pakistan” - Cornelius Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn) “The Bright Side of Tax Evasion” - Sabina Szymczak (Gdansk University of Technology): “Position in global value chains: the impact on wages in central and eastern European countries” - David Garces Urzainqui (VU Amsterdam) “The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India”
20:30 Social Dinner
Friday, January 17, 2020 07:45 Departure of the shuttle bus from Alba di Canazei |
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