RSAI/ERSA 2015 Workshop on Spatial Perspectives of Human Capital
Barcelona, November 26th-27th 2015
Thursday 26th November 2015
9:15 Welcome and Opening: Dr. Jesús Marín Solano (Vice-Dean of Research, University of Barcelona)
9:30 1st Contributed session ̶ Chair: Enrique López-Bazo (AQR-IREA)
Marco Bertoni (Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova), Stephen Gibbons (LSE) and Olmo Silva (LSE), “The Demand for Autonomous Schools”
Paul Bingley (SFI Copenhagen), Lorenzo Cappellari (Universitŕ Cattolica Milano) and Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Nottingham), “Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality”
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 2nd Contributed session ̶ Chair: Alessia Matano (AQR-IREA)
Massimiliano Bratti (Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano) and Stefano Verzillo (Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano), “The gravity of quality: Research quality and universities’ attractivity in Italy”
Umut Turk (Universitŕ degli Studi di Verona), “Socio-Economic Determinants of Student Mobility and Inequality of Access to Higher Education in Italy”
Elise S. Brezis (Bar-Ilan University), “Heterogeneity in returns to schooling and Mobility of Students”
13:30 Lunch
14:30 3rd Contributed session ̶ Chair: Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA)
Stefania Borelli (Universitŕ degli Studi La Sapienza), “Migration and Production Structure in Europe”
Zhiling Wang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute), “An Immigrant's Social Capital Investment Decision: To Bond or To Bridge?”
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 4th Contributed session
Ylenia Brilli (University of Gothenburg) and Marco Tonello (Bank of Italy), “The contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime. Mechanisms and evidence from regional divides”
Friday 27th November 2015
09:30 Keynote Lecture: Stephen Gibbons (Department of Geography
and Environment, SERC and CEP, LSE)
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 5th Contributed session
Joan Monras (Sciences Po), “Minimum Wages and Spatial Equillibrium: Theory and Evidence”
”Francesco Berlingieri (ZEW), “Local labor market size and qualification mismatch”
Tanja Buch (IAB), Silke Hamann (IAB), Annekatrin Niebuhr (Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel) and Anja Rossen (HWWI), “How to Woo the Smart Ones? Evaluating the Determinants that Particularly Attract Highly Qualified People to Cities"