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Workshop 2002
On 4 and 5 October 2002, we organised a workshop. The theme was “The Underutilisation of Europe’s Labour Resources”. Please find the programme below. For the proceedings, click here.
Friday
4 October – Room 0.037
12:30-13:45 Lunch at the "Kruithuis"
13:45-14:00 Welcome
14:00-14:45 "Underemployment in Europe"
Alois Van Bastelaer, Eurostat, Luxembourg
discussant: Ellen Carlson
14:45-15:30 "Hidden unemployment in OECD countries"
Frank Agbola & Bill Mitchell, University of Newcastle, Australia
discussant: Denis de Crombrugghe
15:30-16:15 "The labour market in the context of new measures of unemployment based on the Czech conditions"
Lenka Filipová & Jaromír Gottvald, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
discussant: Bill Mitchell
16:15-16:45 Coffee/tea
16:45-17:30 "Measures of labour underutilisation and their relevance for modelling inflation"
Bill Mitchell & Ellen Carlson, University of Newcastle, Australia
discussant:
Erik de Regt
17:30-18:15 "Just a temporary phenomenon? The rise and fall of temporary work in the UK"
Chris Forde, University of Leeds, & Gary Slater, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
discussant: Mark Sanders
19:00 Dinner at "Mes Amis"
Saturday
5 October – Room 1.090
9:00-9:45 "Local labour markets and job proximity: Conceptual and measurement issues"
Martin Watts, University of Newcastle, Australia
discussant: Joan Muysken
9:45-10:30 "Labor market participation, wages and hysteresis - A regional perspective"
Joachim Möller, University of Regensburg, Germany
discussant:
Tom van Veen
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00-11:45 "Low-skilled unemployment, biased technological shocks and job competition"
Henri Sneessens, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
discussant: Michael Feil
11:45-12:30 "Informal activities: slack-baked leisure or hidden employment"
Chris de Neubourg, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
discussant: Jaromir Gottvald
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 "Exploring the workplace requirements for sustainable employment"
David Spencer, Chris Forde, Malcolm Sawyer, Leeds University Business School & Gary Slater, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
14:45-15:30 "Disability in The Netherlands: another Dutch disease?"
Joan Muysken & Tim Rutten, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
discussant: Riccardo Welters
15:30-16:00 Tea
16:00-17:00 Round table
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