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Miguel Contreras Labor Program
Miguel Contreras Labor Program
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars 2009-10
Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Appointment Program
| Ciro Avitabile – Italy |
Ciro Avitabile, Department of Economics, University of Naples, is doing post-doctoral research in health economics. He is here from August, 2009 through December, 2009 and his sponsor is David Card
| Uschi Backes-Gellner – Switzerland |
Uschi Backes-Gellner is a Professor of Business Personnel Economics at University of Zurich. Uschi's research interest is 'the impact of labor market institutions & educational systems'. She is at IRLE from September, 2009 to January, 2010 and is sponsored 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 at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and his research interest is work organizations. He will be at IRLE from September, 2009 to August,2010. He is sponsored by Professor James Lincoln, Haas School of Business. His 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 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. He will at be IRLE from January, 2009 to December, 2009. He is sponsored by 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, 2009 to July, 2010. Michael Reich & David Card are his sponsors.
| 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, 2009 to April, 2009 and is sponsored by Professor David Card.
| Akira Kitamura – Japan |
Akira Kitamura is director-general at the Bureau of Equal Employment and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan. His research interests are in the issues of technological innovation and the supply and demand of manpower in health care,. He will be at IRLE from September, 2009 through March, 2011 and sponsored by Clair Brown. His latest publication: "Hospital administration under the PFI initiative in U.K."; WAM, November edition, Medical and Social Welfare Corporation (2000).
| Thorsten Kogge – Germany |
Thorsten Kogge, a Ph.D. Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, is a visiting student researcher from August, 2009 to February, 2010. He is sponsored by Neil Fligstein. His research interests are in new economic sociology, public administration, and social policy.
| Patrice Laroche – France |
Patrice Laroche is a Professor in industrial relations. His research activity is in the study of labor and employment relations with a particular emphasis on the analysis of the impact of unions on firm performances. Patrice will be at IRLE from January, 2010 through July, 2010 and is sponsored by George Strauss. His latest publication: "Unions and Profits: A Meta-Regression Analysis" in Industrial Relations- Berkeley (January 2009).
| Alex Lefter – Roumania |
Alex Lefter is at IRLE from September 1, 2008 to September 1, 2009 and is 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. She is hosted by David Card, Professor of Economics.
| Francois Maon – Belgium |
Francois Maon is a professor of Management Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He will be will be here from November 2008 to April 2009 and is hosted by Professor David Levine.
| Ben Sand – Canada |
Ben Sand is a Postdoctoral Scholar from the University of British Columbia. He is here from September, 2008 through September, 2009 and his current interest is research in labor economics and applied econometrics. David Card is his faculty sponsor.
| 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 , 2009 through February, 2010 and is sponsored by Katie Quan. His 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.
| Ilan Tojerow – Belgium |
Ilan Tojerow, is a visiting researcher from Universite Librede Bruxelles, Belgium, whose research interest is 'the impact of international trade on the wage structure'. He is here from September, 2009 through August, 2010. His sponsor is David Card.
| 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, 2009 through August, 2010. He is sponsored by Michael Reich. His 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 is sponsored by 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 Göçmen-Yeginoglu – Turkey |
Ipek Göçmen-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 August , 2009 through December, 2009. Professor Neil Fligstein is her sponsor.
