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04-12-2008 08:00
Future Demand for Educated Labor

 

 

Conference on

Future Demand for Educated Labor

Thursday December 4, 2008

Organizer:
Anders Sørensen (CEBR, Copenhagen Business School)

Location: Copenhagen Business School

Porcelænshaven 26

Room 407, 4th floor

2000 Frederiksberg.

 

PROGRAM

8:00 - 8:50

Registration

8:50 - 9:00

Welcome address

Skill-upgrading, ICT and Internationalization

Chair: Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (CEBR and Copenhagen Business School)

9:00 - 9:45

"Exposure to Low-Wage Country Imports and Skill-Upgrading at the Firm Level"  Michael Rosholm (University of Aarhus), Christian Scheuer (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR) and Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR)

9:45 - 10:30

"Skill-Biased Technological Change vs. Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from OECD Countries"
Esben A. Schultz (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR), Battista Severgnini (Humboldt University, Germany, and CEBR) and Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

Keynote: "What Do We Know about the Demand for Skills and Wage Inequality?"

11:00-12:30

Stephen Machin (University College London, Centre for the Economics of Education, and Centre for Economic Performance, United Kingdom)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

Returns to Field of Study

Chair: Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR)

13:30 - 14:15

"Do Human Arts Really Offer a Lower Return to Education?"

Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen and CEBR), Esben A. Schultz (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR) and Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR

14:15 - 15:00

"The Economic Returns to Field of Study and Competencies Among Higher Education Graduates in Ireland"

Elish Kelly (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland), Philip O'Connell (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland), and Emer Smyt (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland)



15:00 - 15:30

Coffee

Entrepreneurship

Chair: Hans Christian Kongsted (University of Copenhagen and CEBR)

15:30 - 16:15

"Entrepreneurial Human Capital"
Jens Iversen (University of Aarhus and CEBR, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller (CEBR and University of Southern Denmark) and Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School and CEBR)

16:15 - 17:00

"The Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Norway"

Knut Røed (Frisch Centre, Oslo, Norway)

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