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Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)

"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…

Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Immigrant Networks and Remittances" abstract This paper studies the influence of immigrants' social networks on remittances, both the probability of remitting and the quantity remitted.  We use the Spanish Migrant Survey, a unique database with detailed information both on immigrant's residence location and remittances. Our methodology accounts for problems of reverse causality, common unobserved factors,…

Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Jurado Guerrero (UNED, Madrid)

"Fathering in Construction: What favours a positive paternal involvement in the Spanish context?" abstract Positive paternal involvement (Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004) has become an important concept in research on new ways of fathering and its consequences for child development.  This presentation draws on data of the Spanish case of the international TransParent research project and…

Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)

"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…

Seminars in Statistics Paul Jenkins (University of Warwick)

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion The Wright-Fisher family of diffusion processes is a class of evolutionary models widely used in population genetics, with applications also in finance and Bayesian statistics. Simulation and inference from these diffusions is therefore of widespread interest. However, simulating a Wright-Fisher diffusion is difficult because there is no known closed-form…

Occasional Seminars When Families Turn to the Market … Gender Dimensions of Outsourcing Personal and Household Services: Politics, Markets and Inequalities in East Asian and European Comparison

Organizers: Karen Shire and Margarita Estevez-Abe Day 1 Friday, November 20, 9:00 – 18:30, Sala Rossa, Collegio Carlo Alberto, via Real Collegio 30, Moncalieri (Torino) Day 2 – Continuation of Expert Workshop Saturday, November 21, 9:00 – 17:00, Meeting Room, Hotel Genova, Via Sacchi, Torino

Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Il problema educativo nello scenario internazionale”

Piero Cipollone (Banca d’Italia) Introduction by: Anna Maria Poggi (Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo) abstract Il 2015 è l’anno entro il quale si dovevano raggiungere i Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), cioè l’anno in cui dovevano vedersi i frutti finali degli impegni che la comunità internazionale aveva assunto all’alba del nuovo millennio…

Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armigeon (University of Bern) and Stefano Sacchi (University of Milan)

"Three ways to Austerity" Abstract In 2010-2014, 26 of 31 democratic countries pursued austerity: they consolidated a lean state (Switzerland) or planned to cut back deficits (25 nations, among them Germany, Portugal and Italy). Why do democratic governments embark on austerity policies? A statistical analysis shows that the extent of deficits change is mainly a…