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Labour Market Policy for the 21st Century: A conference in honour of David Metcalf
Monday 14 December 2009 09:45 - 18:30
Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
About this event
This conference will focus on several key issues: unemployment, pay, unions and management, social security, the minimum wage, and most recently, immigration
Labour Market Policy for the 21st Century: A Conference in Honour of David Metcalf
Date: Monday 14 December 2009
Registration 09.00am -09.30am
Conference: 09.30am - 6.30pm
Venue: CEP Conference Room (R405), 4th Floor, LSE Research Lab, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD (link to map)
Please note that this is an invitation only conference.
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A buffet lunch will be served at CEP in the 4th Floor Social Space
DINNER PLANS
The conference will be followed by dinner at a local restaurant - more info to follow
If you have any dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, allergies), please let Jo Cantlay (j.m.cantlay@lse.ac.uk) know as soon as possible.
more to follow
SESSION 1: EMPLOYMENT & IMMIGRATION
Steve Nickell, The European Unemployment Challenge
Christine Whitehead, Recent Increases in Migration and its Impact on the Housing System
Jonathan Wadsworth, Immigration and the UK Labour Market
Paul Gregg, Job Guarantees for the Unemployed: Evidence & Design
SESSION 2: NEW INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS IN LABOUR MARKETS
Steve Dunn, The Future of Trade Unions
Morris Kleiner, Maria Koumenta & Amy Humphris, Analyzing Policies Regulating Occupations in Britain & the US
Sue Fernie, Occupational Licensing in the UK: a Case Study of the Private Security Industry
SESSION 3: LOW PAY & MINIMUM WAGES
Mark Stewart, A Decade of the National Minimum Wage and the Sky Still Hasn't Fallen In
Steve Machin, Changing Wage Structures: Trends and Explanations
Alan Manning, Low Pay & Minimum Wages
SESSION 4: HRM SKILLS & PRODUCTIVITY
John Van Reenen, HRM & Productivity
Anna Vignoles, Education, Training, Skills and an International Perspective
Maria Koumenta, Modernisation, Privatisation and the Public Service Ethos in the UK
SESSION 5: PUBLIC SECTOR
Peter Dolton, Public Sector Pay: How Should we Set it and How Should We Change It?
Richard Disney, Public Sector Wage Differentials: Theory & Empirical Methods
This event will take place in Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD.
The building is labelled on the map.