Labor Economics and Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Seminar

Spring 2008 Schedule

This seminar series is jointly sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Unless otherwise noted, all seminars meet on Fridays from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Wagner Education Center, rooms 35 and 43 on the lower level of the LIR Building, 504 East Armory Avenue in Champaign. Seminars are open to the public.

January	18	Open
	25	Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC, “Rethinking Labor and Employment Relations in the 21st Century: Presentation and Dialogue”
February	1	Monica Bielski Boris, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC, “Community Labor United: Social Movement Unionism In Boston”
	8	Kevin Hallock, ILR School, Cornell University, “The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities” 10am to 11:30am.
	15	Open
	22	Open
	29	Open
March	7	Michael Lovenheim, Stanford University. “The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States”
	14	Paul Oyer, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. “Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms”
	21	Spring Break
	28	Bing Bai, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC. "The Impact of National Culture on High Performance Work Practices in U.S. Multinational Corporations Affiliates Using House's Cultural Scales".
April	2	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, ILIR room 133A. Note that this seminar is on a Wednesday.
	11	No seminar.
	15	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. 4:00pm to 5:30pm, 219 David Kinley Hall. Note that this seminar is on a Tuesday.
	18	Joel Slemrod, School of Business and Department of Economics, University of Michigan. “Tax Policy Issues”. Joint with the Department of Economics. 3:30 to 5:00pm, Room 241 Wohlers Hall.
	23	Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, Dartmouth University. “Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data” Joint with the Econometrics Seminar. 2:00pm to 3:30, ILIR room 133A. Note that this seminar is on a Wednesday.
	25	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.

Fall 2007 Schedule

August	24	No Seminar
	31	John Dencker, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC, “Corporate Restructuring and Sex Differences in Managerial Promotion”
September	7	No seminar – ILIR fellowship lunch
	14	Open
	21	No Friday seminar – Center for Human Resource Management Fall Roundtable on September 20 in Chicago
	28	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”
October	5	Greg Northcraft, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and College of Business, UIUC, “How to Write a CHRM Proposal”
	11	Angus Deaton, Princeton University, "Health and Wellbeing around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll". Department of Economics David Kinley Lecture, 4:30 to 6pm, 134 Temple Buell Hall. (Note that this public lecture is on a Thursday.)
	12	Angus Deaton, Princeton University, “Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height”
	19	Open
	26	Niti Pandey, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC, “Who Prefers What Benefits? Examining the Impact of Demographic Characteristics on Employees' Benefits Preferences: The Study of a U.S. Manufacturing Corporation”
November	2	Open
	9	Helena Worthen, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC, “The AFSCME Family Scholarships: Children look at their parents' lives in the union”
	16	Open
	23	No seminar – Thanksgiving break
	27	Ji-Young Ahn, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC. “Does Stock-Based Pay Attenuate Destructive Competition among Top Executives?” 9:30am to 10:30am, LIR room 43. (Note that this seminar is on a Tuesday.)
	30	Ofer Malamud, University of Chicago, “The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation.”
December	7	Open.

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