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LER 558

General Information

The School of Labor and Employment Relations seminar series (LER 558) meets on Fridays from noon-1.30. Unless otherwise noted all seminars are held in the Wagner Education Center (35/43 LER). The Seminar is open to the public.

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Upcoming Lectures

Day 
Date 
Time  Location  Speaker  Affiliation  Bio  Coordinator 
Friday 
September 11, 2009
I Hotel and Conference Center  CHRM Roundtable and SLER Scholarship Reception  Jean Drasgow 
Friday 
September 18, 2009
tba  LER Faculty Meeting  Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld 
Friday 
September 25, 2009
12:00-1:30  LER WEC (bottom level)  Fred Walumbwa  Arizona State University  https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/856020  Deborah Rupp 
Friday 
October 2, 2009
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  Andrew Garman/ Tentative  Rush University  http://www.rushu.rush.edu/servlet/Satellite?ProfileType=D  Ariel Avgar 
Friday 
October 9, 2009
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)   Richard Locke (co-sponsor: EU Center)  MIT  http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/R.Locke.html  Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld 
Tuesday 
October 13, 2009
3:30-5:00  tba  Eli Berman (co-sponsor: Economics)  University of California, San Diego  http://econ.ucsd.edu/~elib/  Rich Akresh 
Wednesday 
October 21, 2009
tba  Forum on 21st Century Assumptions on Labor and Employment Relations  Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld 
Friday 
October 30, 2009
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  Jason Dunick (co-sponsor: Economics)  UIUC  tp://jdunick.googlepages.com/Dunick_CV_11-15-2008.d Kristine Brown 
Friday 
October 30, 2009
10:00-11:30  BIF Rm 3007  Tim Pollock (co-sponsor: OB & Strategy)  Penn State  http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14/  Naomi Rothman 
Tuesday 
November 3, 2009
2:00-3:15  BIF Rm 3007   Courtney Coile (co-sponsor: CBPP)  Wellesley College  http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/Coile/Courtney_Coi  Kristine Brown 
Friday 
November 13, 2009
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  James LeBreton (co-sponsor: Psychology)  Purdue  http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~jlebreto/  Deborah Rupp 
Friday 
November 20, 2009
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  Danielle VanJaarlsveld  Univeristy of British Columbia  http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Fa  Ariel Avgar 
Monday 
November 30, 2009
12:00-1:30 Psychology Room 815  Howard Weiss (co-sponsor: Psychology)  Purdue University  http://www.psych.purdue.edu/index.php?option=com_co Dan Newman 
Friday 
December 4, 2009
10:00-11:30  BIF Rm 3007    Tim Vogus (co-sponsor: OB)  Vanderbilt  http://owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/about/faculty-resea Eric Neuman 
Friday 
January 22, 2010
10:00-11:30  BIF Rm 3007    Hilllary Elfenbein (co-sponsor: OB)  Washington University  http://www.olin.wustl.edu/facultyandresearch/Faculty/Pag  Naomi Rothman 
Friday 
January 29, 2010
   
Friday 
February 5, 2010
   
Friday 
February 12, 2010
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  Jody Hoffer Gittell  Brandeis University  http://heller.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?em  Ariel Avgar 
Friday 
February 19, 2010
   
Friday 
February 26, 2010
   
Friday 
March 5, 2010
  CHRM Spring Roundtable  Chicago  Jean Drasgow 
Friday 
March 12, 2010
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  John-Paul Ferguson  Stanford Graduate School of Busi  https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp Taekjin Shin 
Friday 
March 19, 2010
   
Friday 
April 2, 2010
12:00-1:30 LER WEC (bottom level)  Colleen Flaherty Manchester (co-sponsor: Economics)  Carlson School of Management, U  http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page2075.aspx?type=Faculty  Kristine Brown 
Friday 
April 9, 2010
10:00-11:30  BIF Rm 3007    Steve Blader (co-sponsor: OB) NYU  http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=302  Naomi Rothman 
Friday 
April 16, 2010
   
Friday 
April 23, 2010
   
Friday 
April 30, 2010
   
Friday 
May 7, 2010
   

Past Lectures

 
Date
  LOCATION Name Affiliation Lecture
 
SPRING 2009
 
Friday  
January 23, 2009
  Kim Wade-Benzoni Duke University "Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology and Intergenerational Decisions"
Friday   
January 30, 2009
  Elizabeth Gorman University of Virginia
Friday   
February 13, 2009
  Ruby Mendenhall Dept. of Sociology, UIUC TBA
Monday  
February 27, 2009 joint w/College of Business
  Wohlers Hall Timothy Vogus Vanderbilt University
Friday   
March 6, 2009
  Eric Neuman School of Business at UIUC TBA
Friday   
March 13
  Ethan Cohen-Cole Federal Reserve Bank of Boston TBA
Tuesday  
March 17 - joint w/Development/CBPP 
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. 3007 BIF Giovanni Peri University of California-Davis TBA
Friday   
April 10, 2009
  Chichun Fang and John Dencker Labor & Emp. Relations at UIUC TBA
Friday   
April 17, 2009
  Dale Mortensen Northwestern University
Friday   
May 1, 2009
  MIT
Friday   
November 21, 2008
  Josh Angrist University of Maryland "Preferences and Choice Constraints in Martial Sorting: Evidence from Korea"
 
(Joint with Applied Micro)
 
Friday   
November 7, 2008
 
Friday   
October 31, 2008
  LER WEC (bottom level)  Jason Shaw University of Minnesota "Employee-organziation Exchange relationships, HRM Practices, and Quit Rates of Good and Poor Performers"
Friday   
October 17, 2008
  Marianne Bitler University of California-Irvine "Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates" 
Friday   
October 10, 2008
  Rich Trumka AFL-CIO TBA
Friday   
October 3, 2008
  Adam Stevenson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Admissions Policy and the Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality"
Tuesday  
September 30, 2008
  Ki-wook Kwon Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: Focusing on High Performer Turnover"
 
  3007 BIF Mel Stephens Carbegie Mellon University "Can Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits"
Friday   
September 19, 2008
 
Tuesday  
September 16, 2008
  LER WEC (bottom level)  Sergey Popov University of Illinois "Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes" 
 
  Andy Foster  Brown University "Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs Help Reduce Pollution Levels? Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program"
 
(Joint w/ Development)
   
Tuesday
September 9, 2008
  223 David Kinley Hall  
Friday 
August 29, 2008
  Rebecca Givan Cornell University "The Public and Private Politics of Healthcare Employment: Rethinking the UK-US Comparison"
 
April 25, 2008
  David Goldberg University of Illinois Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm
 
April 23, 2008
  Chris Taber Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin "Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capital" Joint with the Department of Economics, 3:30 to 5:00PM, 123 David Kinley Hall
    Debopam Bhattacharya Department of Economics, Dartmouth University "Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data" Joint with the Econometrics Seminar, 2:00 to 3:30PM, LER
 
April 15, 2008
  Joel Slemrod School of Business and Department of Economics, University of Michigan "Tax Policy Issues" 3:30 to 5:00PM, Room 241 Wohlers Hall
 
April 2, 2008
  Marianne Bertrand Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago "Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India" Joint with the Development Economics Seminar, 4:00 to 5:30PM, 219 David Kinley Hall
 
March 14, 2008
  John Budd Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota "Unionism Over the Life Cycle: First-Timers and the Never-Unionized in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force" 3:30 to 5:00PM, LER room 133A
 
March 28, 2008
  Paul Oyer Graduate School of Business, Stanford University "Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms"
 
March 7, 2008
  Bing Bai School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "The Impact of National Culture on High Performance Work Practices in U.S. Multinational Corporations Affiliates Using House's Cultural Scales"
 
February 8, 2008
  Michael Lovenheim Stanford University "The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States"
 
February 1, 2008
  Kevin Hallock LER School, Cornell University "The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities" 10:00 to 11:30AM
 
January 25, 2008
  Monica Bielski Boris School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "Community Labor United: Social Movement Unionism In Boston"
 
November 30, 2007
  Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "Rethinking Labor and Employment Relations in the 21st Century:  Presentation and Dialogue"
 
November 27, 2007
  Ofer Malamud University of Chicago "The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation"
 
November 9, 2007
  Ji-Young Ahn School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "Does Stock-Based Pay Attenuate Destructive Competition among Top Executives?" 9:30AM to 10:30AM, room 43. 
 
October 26, 2007
  Helena Worthen School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "The AFSCME Family Scholarships: Children look at their parents' lives in the union"
 
October 12, 2007
  Niti Pandey School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "Who Prefers What Benefits? Examining the Impact of Demographic Characteristics on Employees' Benefits Preferences: The Study of a U.S. Manufacturing Corporation"
 
October 11, 2007
  Angus Deaton Princeton University "Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height"
 
October 5, 2007
  Angus Deaton Princeton University "Health and Wellbeing around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll" 4:30 to 6:00PM, 134 Temple Buell Hall
 
September 28, 2007
  Greg Northcraft School of Labor and Employment Relations and College of Business, UIUC "How to Write a CHRM Proposal"
 
August 31, 2007
  Elizabeth Powers Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC "The Long-Term Care Workforce Retention Crisis: Causes and Consequences of Frontline Worker Turnover"
 
  John Dencker School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC "Corporate Restructuring and Sex Differences in Managerial Promotion"