The Tilburg-Nagoya Workshop on Population Economics

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.