Conference
The Welfare State in an Intertemporal Perspective
CRISS
Centro di Ricerca Inter-Universitario sullo Stato Sociale
The Network on the Economics of the Welfare State
and
J. Monnet Chair in "European Macroeconomics"
Dipartimento di Economia Politica
Università degli Studi di Siena
organise a Workshop on
The Welfare State in an Intertemporal Perspective
Siena, Certosa di Pontignano
Sala Palio
September 25-26, 2004
Saturday, September 25, 10.45 | |
10.45 | Opening of the workshop |
11.00 | Keynote Speaker |
Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford Social Europe and the Contribution of Public Economics |
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Saturday, September 25, 15.00 | |
First Session - Well-Being in the Life-cycle and Intergenerational Mobility | |
15.00 | Tim Smeeding, Syracuse University |
Patterns of Economic Wellbeing: Full Income Distribution and Income Packages in Rich Countries | |
16.00 | Jacques LeCacheux, Pau University and OFCE |
Ageing, Pensions and International Capital Flows | |
17.00 | Coffee break |
17.30 | Miles Corak, Statistics Canada, Ottawa |
Do poor children become poor adults? Lessons for public policy from a cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility | |
20.00 | Dinner |
Sunday, September 26, 9.00 | |
Second Session - Well-Being, Education and Human Capital | |
9.00 | Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University |
Cost structures in higher education | |
10.00 | Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco, Padua University |
Diploma no problem: can private schools provide lower quality than public schools? | |
11.30 | Coffee break |
12.00 | Andrea Brandolini and Piero Cipollone, Bank of Italy |
Return to Education in Italy | |
13.00 | Lunch |
Sunday, September 26, 15.00 | |
Third Session - Welfare Reforms from an Intertemporal Perspectives | |
15.00 | Herwig Immerwoll, Cambridge University and OECD |
Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis | |
16.00 | Francesco Farina, Siena University |
Risk Heterogeneity, Income Distribution, and Voting on Risk Insurance | |
17.30 | Good bye Coffee |