1:30 p.m. - Welcome coffee

2:00 p.m. - Opening speech by François Rebsamen – Minister of Labor, Employment, Vocational training and Social dialogue

Chairperson of the session: Christel Colin (DARES)

2:30 p.m. - The role of the labor market institutions – USA and France

• Minimum wage and employment in France by Pierre Cahuc (ENSAE-CREST, Ecole Polytechique – Paris)
• Recession, recovery, and labor market flexibility in the United States, 2007-2013 by John Schmitt (Center for Economic and Policy Research – Washington DC)

Discussant: Agnès Benassy-Quéré (Paris School of Economics, Paris I University, Council
of Economic Analysis –CAE)

Chairperson of the session: Jean-Louis Dayan (Employment Research Center –CEE)

4:00 p.m. - The differentiated impacts of the crisis across workers

• The implications of austerity for gender relations and gender equality: the cases of Spain and the UK  by Jill Rubery (Manchester University)
• Who suffers in recessions? An analysis of US labor markets in the great recession by Hilary Hoynes (University of California Berkeley, NBER)

Discussant: Christine Erhel (Employment Research Center –CEE–, Paris I University)

 Friday, 7th November

8:30 a.m. - Welcome coffee

9:00 a.m. - Opening speech by Françoise Bouygard – Head of the DARES

• Chairperson of the session: Daniel Cohen (CEPREMAP)
• 9:15 a.m. - Keynote session – Failing the future: the inability of labor markets, institutions, and policies to overcome the specters of inequality and joblessness by Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University, NBER)
• International perspective: Both more and better jobs are needed for an inclusive recovery from the crisis by Stefano Scarpetta (OCDE)

Chairperson of the session: Fréderic Lerais (Institute of Economic and Social Research – IRES)

11:00 a.m. - The role of the labor market institutions – Denmark and Germany

• The Danish flexicurity labour market during the great recession by Torben M. Andersen (Aarhus University, CEPR, IZA)
• The German labor market during the great recession and since the mid-1990s’ by Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Employment Research –IAB–, IZA Berlin)

Discussant: Bernard Gazier (Paris I University)

12:30 p.m. - Lunch

Chairperson of the session: Jean-Luc Tavernier (INSEE)

• 2:00 p.m. - The new inflation/output trade-off by Robert J. Gordon (Northwestern University)
• Labour productivity puzzles in Europe by Philippe Askenazy (Paris School of Economics)

Discussant: Ekkehard Ernst (International Labour Organisation)

Chairperson of the session: Luc Behaghel (CEPREMAP)

3:30 p.m. - Reforms and adjustments of labor policies

• Unemployment insurance and great recession in the US and in Europe by Camille Landais (London School of Economics)
• The Spanish productivity puzzle in the great recession by Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain, IZA)

Discussant: Gilles Saint-Paul (Paris School of Economics, Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL)