Date: 14 March 2014
Venue: Tilburg University
AGENDA
8:50 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening
9:00 – 10:45 Session 1: Inequality and redistribution
Chair: Professor ASAHI, Sachiyo
1) KITAURA, Koji “Child labour and inequality”
2) WESTERHOUT, Ed “Paying for the ageing crisis: Who, how and when?”
3) MIYAZAWA, Kazutoshi “Life-cycle earnings and economic growth”
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:45 Session 2: Retirement, elderly labor and specialization
Chair: Dr. WESTERHOUT, Ed
1) MEIJDAM, Lex “Flexible pension take-up in social security”
2) YAKITA, Akira “Life expectancy, the labor supply of the elderly and social security reform”
3) van GROEZEN, Bas “International trade with pensions and demographic shocks”
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:30 Session 3: Pensions
Chair: Professor YAKITA, Akira
1) KOMURA, Mizuki “Pension and the family” (with Hikaru Ogawa)
2) PONDS, Eduard “Pension funds in the Netherlands” (provisional title)
3) OMORI, Tatsuya “Parents' life and children's life: health, education and pension”
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 17:00 Session 4: Pensions, consumption and redistribution
Chair: Professor MEIJDAM, Lex
1) HIRAZAWA, Makoto “Fertility, market child care, labor supply and redistributive effects of public pensions”
2) KOC, Emre “Pensions and consumption decisions: Evidence from the Lab
17:00 – 17:25 Reception
17:30 – Dinner
* Financial support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, No. 25285091) is gratefully acknowledged.