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One Day Workshop
Wednesday July 16, 2008

VENUE: Lecture Theatrette 1, Ground Floor, Economics and Commerce Building, University of Melbourne

9:00 – 9:30 am Coffee/Tea
9:30 – 11:15 am Brett Inder, Monash University,
Mental Illness and Labour Market Costs
Jan van Ours, Tilburg University and University of Melbourne
Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?
11:15 – 11.45 am Coffee/Tea
11:45am – 12:45pm Richard Blundell, University College London.
Consumption Inequality and Partial Insurance
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 pm Martin Browning, Oxford University
Dynamic binary outcome models with maximal heterogeneity
3:00 – 3:30 pm Coffee/Tea
3:30 – 4:30 pm Wolfgang Polasek, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Human capital diffusion and regional growth in Switzerland

There is no cost for attending the workshop. Coffee, tea and lunch will be provided. All those interested in attending the workshop (not just members of the Centre) are welcome.

There are two related social events that will incur a charge.

  • Workshop dinner at 7pm on Wednesday July 16 at Il Vicolo, Carlton. ($60 approx)
  • Lunch on Saturday July 19 at CRU Restaurant, Outlook Hill Vineyard, Yarra Valley. ($75 approx)

Please let Olga (ogbrown@unimelb.edu.au) know by Friday June 27 if you plan to attend:

  1. the workshop,
  2. the workshop dinner, and/or
  3. the Yarra Valley lunch.
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