LER 558
General Information
The School of Labor and Employment Relations seminar series (LER 558) meets on Fridays from noon-1.30. Unless otherwise noted all seminars are held in the Wagner Education Center (35/43 LER). The Seminar is open to the public.
Upcoming Lectures
2009/2010 LER Speaker Series (558) FALL 2009/2010 LER Speaker Series (558) SPRING
| Day | Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Bio | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 09/11/09 | I Hotel and Conference Center | CHRM Roundtable and SLER Scholarship Reception | Jean Drasgow | |||
| Friday | 09/18/09 | tba | LER Faculty Meeting | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | |||
| Friday | 09/25/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Fred Walumbwa | Arizona State University | https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/856020 | Deborah Rupp |
| Friday | 10/02/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Andrew Garman/ Tentative | Rush University | http://www.rushu.rush.edu/servlet/Satellite?ProfileType=D | Ariel Avgar |
| Friday | 10/09/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Richard Locke (co-sponsor: EU Center) | MIT | http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/R.Locke.html | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
| Tuesday | 10/13/09 | 3:30-5:00 | tba | Eli Berman (co-sponsor: Economics) | University of California, San Diego | http://econ.ucsd.edu/~elib/ | Rich Akresh |
| Wednesday | 10/21/09 | tba | Forum on 21st Century Assumptions on Labor and Employment Relations | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | |||
| Friday | 10/30/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Jason Dunick (co-sponsor: Economics) | UIUC | tp://jdunick.googlepages.com/Dunick_CV_11-15-2008.d | Kristine Brown |
| Friday | 10/30/09 | 10:00-11:30 | Business Instructional Facility Room 3007 | Tim Pollock (co-sponsor: OB & Strategy) | Penn State | http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14/ | Naomi Rothman |
| Tuesday | 11/03/09 | 2:00-3:15 | Business Instructional Facility Room 3007 | Courtney Coile (co-sponsor: CBPP) | Wellesley College | http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/Coile/Courtney_Coi | Kristine Brown |
| Friday | 11/13/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | James LeBreton (co-sponsor: Psychology) | Purdue | http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~jlebreto/ | Deborah Rupp |
| Friday | 11/20/09 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Danielle VanJaarlsveld | Univeristy of British Columbia | http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Fa | Ariel Avgar |
| Monday | 11/30/09 | 12:00-1:30 | Psychology Room 815 | Howard Weiss (co-sponsor: Psychology) | Purdue University | http://www.psych.purdue.edu/index.php?option=com_co | Dan Newman |
| Friday | 12/04/09 | 10:00-11:30 | Business Instructional Facility Room 3007 | Tim Vogus (co-sponsor: OB) | Vanderbilt | http://owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/about/faculty-resea | Eric Neuman |
Friday |
01/22/10 | 10:00-11:30 | Business Instructional Facility Room 3007 | Hilllary Elfenbein (co-sponsor: OB) | Washington University | http://www.olin.wustl.edu/facultyandresearch/Faculty/Pag | Naomi Rothman |
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| Friday | 01/29/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 02/05/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 02/12/10 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Jody Hoffer Gittell | Brandeis University | http://heller.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?em | Ariel Avgar |
| Friday | 02/19/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 02/26/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 03/05/10 | CHRM Spring Roundtable | Chicago | Jean Drasgow | |||
| Friday | 03/12/10 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | John-Paul Ferguson | Stanford Graduate School of Busi | https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp | Taekjin Shin |
| Friday | 03/19/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 04/02/10 | 12:00-1:30 | LER Wagner Education Center (bottom level) | Colleen Flaherty Manchester (co-sponsor: Economics) | Carlson School of Management, U | http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page2075.aspx?type=Faculty | Kristine Brown |
| Friday | 04/09/10 | 10:00-11:30 | Business Instructional Facility Room 3007 | Steve Blader (co-sponsor: OB) | NYU | http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=302 | Naomi Rothman |
| Friday | 04/16/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 04/23/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 04/30/10 | ||||||
| Friday | 05/07/10 |
Past Lectures
| Date | LOCATION | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPRING 2009 | ||||
| Fri., January 23, 2009 | Kim Wade-Benzoni | Duke University | "Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology and Intergenerational Decisions" | |
| Fri., January 30, 2009 | Elizabeth Gorman | University of Virginia | ||
| Fri., February 13, 2009 | Ruby Mendenhall | Dept. of Sociology, UIUC | TBA | |
| Mon. February 27, 2009 joint w/College of Business | Wohlers Hall | Timothy Vogus | Vanderbilt University | |
| Fri., March 6, 2009 | Eric Neuman | School of Business at UIUC | TBA | |
| Fri., March 13 | Ethan Cohen-Cole | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | TBA | |
| Tues., March 17 - joint w/Development/CBPP 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | 3007 BIF | Giovanni Peri | University of California-Davis | TBA |
| Fri., April 10, 2009 | Chichun Fang and John Dencker | Labor & Emp. Relations at UIUC | TBA | |
| Fri., April 17, 2009 | Dale Mortensen | Northwestern University | ||
| Fri., May 1, 2009 | Josh Angrist | MIT | ||
Fri., November 21, 2008 (Joint with Applied Micro) |
Wagner Educatin Center LER | Soohyung Lee | University of Maryland |
"Preferences and Choice Constraints in Martial Sorting: Evidence from Korea" |
| Fri, November 7, 2008 | Wagner Education Center (LER) | Jason Shaw | University of Minnesota | "Employee-organziation Exchange relationships, HRM Practices, and Quit Rates of Good and Poor Performers" |
| Fri., Oct. 31, 2008 | Marianne Bitler | University of California-Irvine | "Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates" | |
| Fri., October 17, 2008 | Rich Trumka | AFL-CIO | TBA | |
| Fri., October 10, 2008 | Adam Stevenson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "Admissions Policy and the Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality" | |
| Fri., October 3, 2008 | Ki-wook Kwon | Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: Focusing on High Performer Turnover" | |
*Tu. September 30, 2008 (Joint with CBPP) |
3007 BIF | Mel Stephens | Carbegie Mellon University | "Can Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits" |
| Fri., September 19, 2008 | 35/43 LER | Sergey Popov | University of Illinois | "Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes" |
*Tu. September 16, 2008 (Joint w/ Development) |
223 David Kinley Hall |
Andy Foster | Brown University | "Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs Help Reduce Pollution Levels? Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program" |
| *Tu. September 9, 2008 (Time change: 11 - 12:30 - 133A LER) formerly LIR | Rebecca Givan | Cornell University | "The Public and Private Politics of Healthcare Employment: Rethinking the UK-US Comparison" | |
| Fri., August 29, 2008 | David Goldberg | University of Illinois | Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm | |
| April 25, 2008 | Chris Taber | Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin | "Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capital" Joint with the Department of Economics, 3:30 to 5:00PM, 123 David Kinley Hall | |
| April 23, 2008 | Debopam Bhattacharya | Department of Economics, Dartmouth University | "Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data" Joint with the Econometrics Seminar, 2:00 to 3:30PM, LER room 133A |
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| April 18, 2008 | Joel Slemrod | School of Business and Department of Economics, University of Michigan | "Tax Policy Issues" 3:30 to 5:00PM, Room 241 Wohlers Hall | |
| April 15, 2008 | Marianne Bertrand | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | "Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India" Joint with the Development Economics Seminar, 4:00 to 5:30PM, 219 David Kinley Hall | |
| April 2, 2008 | John Budd | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | "Unionism Over the Life Cycle: First-Timers and the Never-Unionized in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force" 3:30 to 5:00PM, LER room 133A | |
| March 14, 2008 | Paul Oyer | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | "Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms" | |
| March 28, 2008 | Bing Bai | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "The Impact of National Culture on High Performance Work Practices in U.S. Multinational Corporations Affiliates Using House's Cultural Scales" | |
| March 7, 2008 | Michael Lovenheim | Stanford University | "The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States" | |
| February 8, 2008 | Kevin Hallock | ILR School, Cornell University | "The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities" 10:00 to 11:30AM | |
| February 1, 2008 | Monica Bielski Boris | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Community Labor United: Social Movement Unionism In Boston" | |
| January 25, 2008 | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Rethinking Labor and Employment Relations in the 21st Century: Presentation and Dialogue" | |
| November 30, 2007 | Ofer Malamud | University of Chicago | "The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation" | |
| November 27, 2007 | Ji-Young Ahn | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Does Stock-Based Pay Attenuate Destructive Competition among Top Executives?" 9:30AM to 10:30AM, room 43. | |
| November 9, 2007 | Helena Worthen | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "The AFSCME Family Scholarships: Children look at their parents' lives in the union" | |
| October 26, 2007 | Niti Pandey | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Who Prefers What Benefits? Examining the Impact of Demographic Characteristics on Employees' Benefits Preferences: The Study of a U.S. Manufacturing Corporation" | |
| October 12, 2007 | Angus Deaton | Princeton University | "Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height" | |
| October 11, 2007 | Angus Deaton | Princeton University | "Health and Wellbeing around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll" 4:30 to 6:00PM, 134 Temple Buell Hall | |
| October 5, 2007 | Greg Northcraft | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and College of Business, UIUC | "How to Write a CHRM Proposal" | |
| September 28, 2007 | Elizabeth Powers | Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC | "The Long-Term Care Workforce Retention Crisis: Causes and Consequences of Frontline Worker Turnover" | |
| August 31, 2007 | John Dencker | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Corporate Restructuring and Sex Differences in Managerial Promotion" |