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Miguel Contreras Labor Program
Miguel Contreras Labor Program
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars 2009-10
Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Appointment Program
| Uschi Backes-Gellner – Switzerland |
Uschi Backes-Gellner is a Professor of Business and Personnel Economics at the University of Zurich. Uschi's research interest is the impact of labor market institutions and educational systems. She is at IRLE from September 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 and is faculty hosted by Professor Clair Brown.
| Donata Bessy – Switzerland |
Donata Bessy is a Visiting Student Researcher from University of Zurich, Switzerland. Donata's research interest is in education and labor economics and she is at IRLE from July 2008 to June 2009. Her faculty host is Professor Clair Brown at IRLE.
| Kohei Daido – Japan |
Kohei Daido is a professor of economics at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan with a research interest in work organizations. He will be at IRLE from September 2009 to August 2010. His faculty host is Professor James Lincoln, Haas School of Business.
Latest publication: "A Behavioral Economic Approach to Performance-based Wage Systems" in Japan Labor Review (2007)
| Francesco Devicienti – Italy |
Francesco Devicienti is an Assistant Professor of Economics from the Department of Economics and Public Finance, University of Torino, Italy. Francesco is here from September 2008 to February 2009. His current research interest is focused on the evolution of wage inequality in Italy.
| Sophia Dini – Switzerland |
Sophia Dini is a Visiting Scholar from the Department of Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her current research focuses on discrimination, occupational segregation and gender wage gap. Sophia is at IRLE from February 5, 2009 to August 2009 and is faculty hosted by Professor Emmanuel Saez.
| Carlo Gianelle – Italy |
Carlo Gianelle is a Visiting Scholar from the Department of Economics at the University of Siena. His current research interests are in social networks and labour mobility, technology and innovation, and product value chain. He will be at IRLE from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009. His faculty host is Professor David Card.
| Gustavo Gonzaga – Brazil |
Gustavo Gonzaga, an alumnus of UC Berkeley, is an Associate Professor from the Department of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janiero. His research interests are in labor economics specifically analyzing the effects of changes in Brazilian market labor institutions. He will be at IRLE from August 1, 2009 to July 30, 2010. Michael Reich is his sponsor.
| Martin Halla – Austria |
Martin Halla is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Economics at the University of Linz. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, family economics, and labour economics. He will be at IRLE from February 1, 2009 to April 30, 2009 and is faculty hosted by Professor David Card.
| Hou-Gyun Kim – South Korea |
Hou-Gyun Kim is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Public Administration at Chonnam National University in South Korea. His research interests are in organizational justice, performance and citizenship behavior in the workplace.
| Thorsten Kogge – Germany |
Thorsten Kogge, a Ph.D. Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, will be at IRLE from August 2009 to February 2010. His faculty host is Professor Fligstein. His research interests are in new economic sociology, public administration, and social policy.
| Patrice Laroche – France |
Patrice Laroche is a French Professor in industrial relations. Her research activity is devoted to the study of labor and employment relations with a particular emphasis on the analysis off the impact of unions on firm performances. Patrice will be at IRLE from September 1, 2009 through March 20, 2010 and will be faculty hosted by Professor George Strauss.
Latest publication: "Unions and Profits: A Meta-Regression Analysis" in Industrial Relations – Berkeley (January 2009)
| Alex Lefter – Romania |
Alex Lefter is at IRLE from September 1, 2008 to September 1, 2009 and is faculty hosted by Professor David Card. His research objective is to investigate the relationship between the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system and the duration of post-unemployment jobs.
| Agata Maida – Italy |
Agata Maida is a Researcher for Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli, Italy. She will be at IRLE from February 2009 to August 2009. Maida's current interest is on conducting research at the Center for Labor Economics and is faculty hosted by David Card, Professor of Economics.
| Francois Maon – Belgium |
Francois will be here from November 2008 to April 2009 and is faculty hosted by Professor Levine.
| Yasuyuki Osumi – Japan |
Yasuyuki Osumi is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Hyogo, Japan. He is here from September 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. His research interests are in Labor Economics and the consequences of minimum wages on various skill types of employment in the U.S. and Japan. His faculty host is Michael Reich.
Latest publication: "Capital-skill complementarity, mobility, and aggregate elasticity of substitution" in Studies in Contemporary Economics (2009).
| Ben Sand – UK |
Ben Sand is a Postdoctoral Scholar form the University of British Columbia. He is here from September 2008 through September 2009 and his current interest is research in labor economics labor economics and applied econometrics. David Card, Professor of Economics, is his faculty host.
| Zhenlei Shi – China |
Zhenlei Shi is an Associate Professor of the School of Economics and Management at the Beijing Jiatong University. His research interest is in Labor Economics. Shi is here from August 1, 2009 through February 28, 2010 and is faculty hosted by Katie Quan.
Latest publication: "Human Capital Investment and Poverty Alleviation in the West Rural Area" in Expanding Horizons (2008).
| Paige Skiba – USA |
Paige Skiba, an alumna of UC Berkeley, is a Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University and is here from January 2009 through August 2009. She plans to conduct research on payday loan borrowing. Her faculty host is Michael Reich.
| Zhiyong Wang – China |
Zhiyong Wang is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Population and Labor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. His research interests are in capacity building, especially in the field of labor economics and econometrics. He will be at IRLE from August 19, 2009 through August 16, 2010. His faculty sponsor is Michael Reich. Latest publication: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Employment of Rural Migrant Workers in China (2009)
| Masa Yasumoto – Japan |
Masa Yasumoto is a visiting scholar and professor from Yokohama National University, Japan. He is here from October 2008 through May 2009. Masumoto's faculty host is Professor Clair Brown, Economics, UC Berkeley. His research interest is high-tech global value chains in Asia and focuses on the semiconductor and automobile industries.
| Ipek Yeginoglu – Turkey |
Ipek Yeginoglu is a Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne-Germany. Her research interests are in comparative social policy, poverty, political sociology, sociology of religion and civil society. She will be at IRLE from August 15, 2009 through December 24, 2009. Professor Neil Fligstein is her faculty host.
Latest presentation: "Towards a Common European Social Policy Discourse?" at ECPR Graduate Conference in Barcelona
