Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance; MacArthur Research Networks, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Agenda

October 27 - 29, 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts


 

Friday, October 27

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Michael Kremer: "An Epidemiological Model of Unions" [~444k pdf]

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Alan Manning: "Monopsony and Labour Market Policy" [~169k pdf]

1:00 - 2:30: catered lunch

2:30 - 4:15: Oded Galor: "Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth" [~493k pdf]

4:30 - 6:00: (Network Members only) Meeting

7:00: Group Dinner at Legal Seafood, 5 Cambridge Center, 617-864-3400

Saturday, October 28

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Roland Bénabou: "Self-Confidence and Social Interactions" [~406k pdf]

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Karla Hoff: "The Logic of Political Constraints and Reform, with Applications to Strategies for Privatization" [available only in RTF; ~233k]

1:00 - 3:00: catered lunch

3:00 - 4:45 Erik Wright: "The American Jobs Machine: The Trajectory of Good and Bad Jobs in the 1960's and 1990's" [~52k pdf]. See also the figures [~21k pdf] for this paper.

Sunday, October 29

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Kalle Moene: "Contested Power and Political Instability" [~183k pdf]

10:45 - 11:00: coffee break

11:00 - 12:45: Philippe Aghion: "Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality"

Note: Many of the papers are in PDF format. You can download the free PDF reader from Adobe Acrobat. If you are unable to read/access PDF format, you may request a copy of the document by contacting Sally Alcalá at salcala@berkeley.edu.


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