Spring 2012 Colloquia

Monday, January 30, 2012 | 12pm - 1pm

Sylvia Allegretto

Right-to-Work Legislation and Promises of Job Creation: Lessons from Oklahoma

Sylvia Allegretto, Co-chair CWED, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, IRLE

 

Monday, February 13 | 12pm – 1pm

Patrice Laroche

Evolution or Revolution? The Impact of Unions on Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Patrice Laroche, Industrial Relations, Nancy Universite, France

 

Monday, February 27 | 12pm – 1pm

Magali Girard

The Issue of Foreign Credential Recognition of Immigrants in Canada

Magali Girard, Canada

 

Monday, March 5 | 12pm – 1pm

Frank Neuhauser

Experience Rating Employers for Workers Compensation: Safety or Suppression?

Frank Neuhauser, Center for the Study of Social Insurance, University of California, Berkeley

 

Monday, March 19 | 12pm – 1pm

Arin Dube

The Determinants and Effects of Fiscal Spending: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Arin Dube, Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Monday, April 2 | 12pm – 1pm

Abby Larson

Institutional Exuberance, Risk and Return in Systemic Financial Crisis, New York, London, Frankfurt, 2008

Abby Larson, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

 

Monday, April 9 | 12pm – 1pm

Sandra Susan Smith

Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
(co-authors Nora Broege and Laura Mangels)

Sandra Susan Smith, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

 

Monday, April 16 | 12pm – 1pm

Damian Grimshaw

Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining in Europe: analysing the pay equity outcomes

Damian Grimshaw, Employment Research Centre, University of Manchester

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Monday, April 23 | 12pm – 1pm

Robert Valletta

The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update

Robert Valletta, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank

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Monday, April 30 | 12pm – 1pm

Jerome Karabel

An Exceptional Nation? American Political Values in Comparative Perspective

Jerome Karabel and Daniel Laurison, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

 

All events are located at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA.

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