Taxation and labour market: lessons from public policy evaluation

9.30-10.00

Registration and coffee

10.00-10.10

Opening remarks by Stephen Bazen (AMSE) & Gilbert Cette (BdF-AMSE)

10.10-11.10

Keynote lecture #1:
Introduced by Loriane Py (BdF, IPP)

Revisiting the Impact of Social Security Contributions: Incidence and Inequality
Antoine Bozio (IPP, EHESS, PSE, IFS)

11.10-11.40

Coffee break

11.40-13.00

Session 1: Distributional effects of taxation
Chair: Eva Moreno-Galbis (AMSE)

Distributional Effects of Tax Composition Changes
Lisa Kerdelhué (AMSE-BdF), with Frédéric Dufourt (AMSE) & Océane Piétri (AMSE)

Incidence and Behavioral Responses to Changes in Local Business Taxation: Lessons from a Large Reform in France
Edouard Jousselin (BdF), with Antonin Bergeaud (BdF), Clément Carbonnier (Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise, LIEPP, BdF) & Clément Malgouyres (IPP)

13.00-14.20

Lunch

14.20-16.20

Session 2: Job search and employment
Chair: Clément Carbonnier (University of Cergy-Pontoise, LIEPP, CAE, BdF)

Age discontinuity and labor market policy evaluation through the lens of job search theory
Bruno Decreuse (AMSE), with Guillaume Wilemme (AMSE)

A dynamic empirical model of spatial job search
Christian Schluter (AMSE) with Guillaume Wilemme (AMSE)

Local Diffusion of Short-Time Work
Sandra Nevoux (BdF, CREST-ENSAE, Ecole Polytechnique), with Eric Marcon (AgroParisTech) & Florence Puech (Univ.of Paris-Sud, CREST, RITM)

16.20-16.50

Coffee break

16.50-17.50

Round table: Policy measures, take up and implementation issues?
Chair: Corinne Prost (INSEE, DARES)

Antoine Bozio (IPP, EHESS, PSE, IFS)
Bruno Decreuse (AMSE)
Rafael Lalive (Univ. of Lausanne, CESifo, CEPR, IFAU, IZA)
Alain Trannoy (CNRS, EHESS, AMSE)

9.00-10.20

Session 3: Perception / understanding of tax and labor market policies
Chair tbc

Perceived nominal wage rigidities: Information coarsening vs. Bias
Clémence Berson (BdF), with Claire Lelarge (Univ. Paris Sud, CEPR, CREST, CAE) & Raphaël Lardeux (INSEE)

Tax (evasion) simplicity
Matthieu Lequien (BdF), with Philippe Aghion (Collège de France), Ufuk Akcigit (Univ. of Chicago) & Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard Univ.)

10.20-10.35

Coffee break

10.35-11.55

Session 4: Pensions subsidies and employment of elderly
Chair: Stephen Bazen (AMSE)

The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
Han Ye (Univ. of Manheim, IZA)

The French Pension Reforms and their Impact on Unemployed Older Workers
Kadija Charni (CNAM-CEET)

11.55-12.00

Mini break

12:00 – 13:00

Keynote lecture #2:

How do reforms for older workers affect labor supply and consumption?
Rafael Lalive (Univ. of Lausanne, CESifo, CEPR, IFAU, IZA)

13:00 – 13:15

Concluding remarks

13:15 - 14.00

Lunch