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MERIT Workshop on Information Technology and New Industry and Labour Market Dynamics
Maastricht, June 3-4, 2004
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| Thursday, June 3 | |
| 13.00 | Registration and coffee
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| 14.00 | Luc Soete (MERIT, Maastricht University) Welcome and introduction |
| 14.15 | Eve Caroli (Artois University, INRA-LEA and CEPREMAP) (joint work with Patrick Aubert and Muriel Roger) New technologies, workplace organisation and the age structure of the workforce: Firm-level evidence |
| Discussant: Lex Borghans (ROA, Maastricht University) | |
| 15.15 | Gerard van den Berg (Free University Amsterdam) Revolutionary effects of new information technologies |
| Discussant: Ronald Peeters (Department of Economics, Maastricht University) | |
| 16.15 | Coffee break Room 0.001c |
| 16.45 | John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance) Is there a market for workgroup servers? |
| Discussant: Franz Palm (Department of Econometrics, Maastricht University) | |
| 17.45 | Adjourn |
| 19.00 | Dinner Hotel Mabi in Maastricht Kleine Gracht 24 6211 CB Maastricht Tel: +31 (0)43 351 44 44 |
| Friday, June 4 | |
| 09.00 | Bas ter Weel (MERIT, Maastricht University) (joint work with Lex Borghans) The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change |
| Discussant: Adriaan van Zon (Department of Economics and MERIT, Maastricht University) | |
| 10.00 | Coffee break Room 0.001c |
| 10.30 | Bart Verspagen (ECIS, Eindhoven University of Technology) Innovation and jobs: A micro-to-macro perspective |
| Discussant: Pierre Mohnen (MERIT, Maastricht University) | |
| 11.30 | Paul Stoneman (Warwick Business School) (joint work with Giuliana Battisti and Alessandra Canepa) The diffusion of E-business activities in the UK: Productivity, profitability, externalities and policy |
| Discussant: Jean-Pierre Urbain (Department of Econometrics, Maastricht University) | |
| 12.30 | Lunch Kruithuis (in the garden of TS53) |
| 13.30 | Paul A. David (Stanford University) Zvi Griliches on diffusion, lags and productivity growth ... connecting the dots |
| Discussant: Bas ter Weel (MERIT, Maastricht University) | |
| 14.30 | Robin Cowan (MERIT, Maastricht University) (joint work with Nicolas Jonard) Information technology and the dynamics of joint innovation |
| Discussant: John Hagedoorn (Department of Organization and Strategy, Maastricht University) | |
| 15.30 | Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) (joint work with Jérôme Vandenbussche and Costas Meghir) Distance to technological frontier and composition of human capital |
| Discussant: Lex Borghans (ROA, Maastricht University) | |
| 16.30 | Luc Soete (MERIT, Maastricht University) Concluding remarks |
| 16.45 | Adjourn |