11-12 December 2025
Barco Teatro, Via Orto Botanico 12 | Padua

Scientific Committee
Lorenzo Cappellari (Catholic University of Milan)
Maria De Paola (University of Calabria and INPS)
Marco Leonardi (University of Milan)
Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
Giovanni Pica (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Marco Bertoni (University of Padua)

Local Organizers
Marco Bertoni (University of Padua)
Elisabetta Lodigiani (University of Padua)
Lorenzo Rocco (University of Padua)

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Full Programme

Thursday, 11 December 2025

8.30-9.00: Registration and Welcome Address

9.00-10.00: Keynote Lecture 1 - Chair: Marco Bertoni (University of Padua)
• Michela Carlana (Harvard University and Bocconi University)

10.00-11.00: Session 1 - Chair: Marco Leonardi (University of Milan)
• Joerg Heining (Institute for Employment Research (IAB))
Why Workers Stay: Pay, Beliefs, and Attachment
• Timea Laura Molnar (Central European University)
Labor Market Tightness, Wage Inequality and Workplace Amenities

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-13.30: Session 2 - Chair: Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
• Koray Aktaş (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Finding Justice: Causal Effects of Winning Labor Lawsuits on Workers’ Labor Market Outcomes
• Gonçalo Lima (European University Institute (EUI))
Physician Overtime Restrictions and Patient Mortality
• Nello Esposito (University of Naples, Federico II)
Employment Protection Consumption and Labour Supply: Evidence from Italy
• Clemente Pignatti (University of Milan)
Long-Term Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

13.30-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-15.30: Flash Session 1. Chair: Elisabetta Lodigiani (University of Padua)
• Francesco Del Prato (Aarhus University)
Generalized AKM: Theory and Evidence
• Friederike Hertweck (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)
The effect of computer science at higher education institutions on local labour markets
• Daniele Gasparini (Maastricht University)
How green are jobs for the energy transition?
• Silvia Granato (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC))
Voting Matters: Exploring the Consequences of Early Electoral Participation

15.30-16.00: Coffee Break

16.00-17.30: Session 3. Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari (Catholic University of Milan)
• Jakub Lonsky (University of Edinburgh and IZA)
Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times
• Mantej Pardesi (Maastricht University)
Capital Adjustment, Technology Vintages and Training
• Giuseppe Di Giacomo (Ifo Institute and LMU Munich)
Tourism in Industrialized Countries: Catalyst for Growth or Economic Burden?

20.00: Dinner at Gourmetteria

Friday, 12 December 2025

9.00-10.30: Session 4. Chair: Giovanni Pica (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
• Enrichetta Giurickovic (Paris School of Economics)
Freelancers and Labor Demand
• Laura Fumagalli (University of Essex)
Why Fathers Don’t Take Parental Leave: Understanding and Shaping Beliefs About the Returns to Paternal Leave
• Emiliano Sandri (University College London)
Firm Adjustment to Idiosyncratic Labor Shocks: Evidence from Injuries

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.00: Flash session 2. Chair: Lorenzo Rocco (University of Padua)
• Filippo Da Re (University of Padua)
Peer Backgrounds Matter: Classmates' Parents and High School Track Decisions
• Andrea Alati (Bank of England)
Firms’ Sales Expectations and Marginal Propensity to Invest
• Roberto Nisticò (University of Naples "Federico II")
Workplace Peer Effects in Fertility Decisions
• Silvia Palmaccio (Bocconi University)
The child disability penalty: A global, comparative approach

12.00-13.00: Keynote Lecture 2. Chair: Maria De Paola (University of Calabria and INPS)
• Giorgio Brunello (University of Padua)

13.00-14.00: Closing Lunch

Financial Support
European Union – NextGenerationEU, Mission 4, Component 2, in the framework of the GRINS –
Growing Resilient, INclusive and Sustainable project (GRINS PE00000018 – CUP C93C22005270001);
Instituut GAK / Netspar; dSEA – University of Padua