Learning and Work Hybrid Seminars, Maastricht University, SBE, Autumn 2024

Our regular Tuesday hybrid seminar series (from 12:00 to 13:00, onsite and also via zoom) features researchers from different disciplines, with focuses on both academic and policy issues.

L&W hybrid seminar organizers

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  • Upcoming seminars 2024

    When: December 17
    Time: 12h00 – 13h00
    Where: TS53 - A0.23

    Presenter: Nicholas Ziebarth (ZEW, Mannheim)
    Title: Gender Norms and Their Influence on Mothers’ Labor-Market Attitudes and Expectations

    Abstract: This paper studies how the private DI market and consumers responded to a reform that abolished public occupational disability insurance (ODI) for German cohorts born after 1960. The first part shows a causal reduction in overall DI inflows by more than 30% in the long-run. The second part studies the private individual risk-rated ODI market. Representative data do not show substantial increases in take-up. A general equilibrium model featuring the social safety net, asymmetric information and administrative costs can rationalize these weak private-public interactions as well as stylized facts such as strong private ODI take-up gradients by income and health. It also simulates policies that could have increased take-up further in the course of the reform and assesses their welfare effects. However, although welfare improving, none of the feasible reforms would have increased take-up to more than 60%.

    Previous seminars

    December 10: Gender Norms and Their Influence on Mothers’ Labor-Market Attitudes and Expectations - Henning Hermes (Ifo, Munich)
    December 3: The impact of mentoring in vocational education on long-term outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment - Nienke Ruijs (Education Lab/ROA)
    November 26: Robots, tasks, and the meaning of work - Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen) 
    November 19: Adjusters and Casualties: The Anatomy of Labor 
    Market Displacement - Simon Janssen (IAB)
    Oktober 29: Matching in the German VET Market - Leonie   Wicht / Bernd Fitzenberger (IAB)
    Oktober 22: Inherited Gender Norms and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: An Analysis of Second-Generation Immigrants - Eric Bonsang (Dauphine PSL)
    Oktober 15: Lost in Transition: Labour in GEMINI-E3 - Eoghan O'Connell (MILE)
    Oktober 8: Does early adoption drive AI use?  Spatio-temporal aspects of AI adoption in Dutch firms 2012-2020 and New skill adoption and cities - Harm-Jan Rouwendal (University of Groningen) 
    September 17: On the Generalizability of Sex-Differences in Risk Attitudes - Jan Feld (Victoria University of Wellington)
    September 12: Apprentices, Robots, or both? Automation Technologies and initial workplace training - Caroline Neuber-Pohl (BIBB)
    September 3: Unlocking Equal Opportunities - Social inequality in university enrollment and how it can be reduced - Marita Jacob (University of Cologne) 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
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