wp15 workshop

Updated: 7 April 2008

Catching the butterflies

WORKS expert workshop on innovative methodologies for measuring employment effects of value chain restructuring
Leuven, 13-14 March 2008

Programme

Day 1 – Thursday, 13 March 2008

09:30	R e g i s t r a t i o n a n d c o f f e e
Chair: Monique Ramioul, HIVA-K.U.Leuven & WORKS project co-ordinator, Belgium
10:00	Monique Ramioul, HIVA-K.U.Leuven & WORKS project co-ordinator, Belgium Welcome and presentation of the WORKS research project For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt
	Karen Geurts, HIVA-K.U.Leuven, Belgium Presentation of the research question and synthesis overview of the approaches For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt
Methods bases on survey data
10:30	Pekka Alajääskö, Eurostat, Luxembourg Eurostat International Outsourcing Survey: the European perspective For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document 1 - document 2
11:00	C o f f e e b r e a k
11:15	Peter Boegh Nielsen, Division for Structural Business Statistics, Statistics Denmark, and Samuli Rikama, Statistics Finland Eurostat International Outsourcing Survey: the national perspective from Denmark and Finland

11:45	Gusta van Gessel-Dabekaussen and Mark Vancauteren, Statistics Netherlands Eurostat International Outsourcing Survey: the national perspective from the Netherlands For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document
12:15	Discussion
12:45	L u n c h b r e a k
Methods based on survey data - continued
13:45	Sharon P. Brown, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC, USA Identifying business functions and business processes involved in mass layoffs in the United States For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document
14:45	Karen Geurts, HIVA-K.U.Leuven, Belgium Measuring employment in business functions in the European Labour Force Survey For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document

15:35	T e a / c o f f e e b r e a k
Methods based on macro-economic data
16:00	Yvonne Wolfmayr, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria Services and materials outsourcing to low-wage countries and employment: empirical evidence from EU countries For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document 1 - document 2
17:00	E n d o f d a y 1
19:00	D i n n e r

Day 2 – Friday, 14 March 2008

Chair: Ursula Huws, London Metropolitan University & member of the Scientific Board of the WORKS project, UK
Methods based on firm level data
09:00	Donald Storrie, European Monitoring Centre on Change, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condition European restructuring monitor For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document
10:00	Mauro Pisu, Research Department, National Bank of Belgium Job creation, job destruction and firm-level international trade involvement For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document 1 - document 2

10:50	C o f f e e b r e a k
11:10	Christian Buelens, European Commission, DG Economic and Financial Affairs A sectoral perspective on recent trends in mergers and acquisitions For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document 1 - document 2 - document 3
12:00	L u n c h b r e a k
Methods based on survey data - continued

13:00	Julia Lane, National Science Foundation, USA with Clair Brown, University of California, and Tim Sturgeon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Globalisation and economic insecurity: views of employees For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document
Perspective on future methods
14:00	Stefan Bender, Research Data Centre, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany COST European Concerted Research Action: 'Comparative analysis of enterprise data: industry dynamics, firm performance, and worker outcomes' For PowerPoint presentation, click here: ppt For background document, click here: document
15:00	Conclusion and discussion on possible future international collaboration
16:00	E n d o f w o r k s h o p