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
| Day | Date |
Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Bio | Coordinator |
| Friday | September 11, 2009 |
I Hotel and Conference Center | CHRM Roundtable and SLER Scholarship Reception | Jean Drasgow | |||
| Friday | September 18, 2009 |
tba | LER Faculty Meeting | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | |||
| Friday | September 25, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Fred Walumbwa | Arizona State University | https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/856020 | Deborah Rupp |
| Friday | October 2, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Andrew Garman/ Tentative | Rush University | http://www.rushu.rush.edu/servlet/Satellite?ProfileType=D | Ariel Avgar |
| Friday | October 9, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Richard Locke (co-sponsor: EU Center) | MIT | http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/R.Locke.html | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
| Tuesday | October 13, 2009 |
3:30-5:00 | tba | Eli Berman (co-sponsor: Economics) | University of California, San Diego | http://econ.ucsd.edu/~elib/ | Rich Akresh |
| Wednesday | October 21, 2009 |
tba | Forum on 21st Century Assumptions on Labor and Employment Relations | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | |||
| Friday | October 30, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Jason Dunick (co-sponsor: Economics) | UIUC | tp://jdunick.googlepages.com/Dunick_CV_11-15-2008.d | Kristine Brown |
| Friday | October 30, 2009 |
10:00-11:30 | BIF Rm 3007 | Tim Pollock (co-sponsor: OB & Strategy) | Penn State | http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14/ | Naomi Rothman |
| Tuesday | November 3, 2009 |
2:00-3:15 | BIF Rm 3007 | Courtney Coile (co-sponsor: CBPP) | Wellesley College | http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/Coile/Courtney_Coi | Kristine Brown |
| Friday | November 13, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | James LeBreton (co-sponsor: Psychology) | Purdue | http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~jlebreto/ | Deborah Rupp |
| Friday | November 20, 2009 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Danielle VanJaarlsveld | Univeristy of British Columbia | http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Fa | Ariel Avgar |
| Monday | November 30, 2009 |
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 | December 4, 2009 |
10:00-11:30 | BIF Rm 3007 | Tim Vogus (co-sponsor: OB) | Vanderbilt | http://owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/about/faculty-resea | Eric Neuman |
| Friday | January 22, 2010 |
10:00-11:30 | BIF Rm 3007 | Hilllary Elfenbein (co-sponsor: OB) | Washington University | http://www.olin.wustl.edu/facultyandresearch/Faculty/Pag | Naomi Rothman |
| Friday | January 29, 2010 |
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| Friday | February 5, 2010 |
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| Friday | February 12, 2010 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | Jody Hoffer Gittell | Brandeis University | http://heller.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?em | Ariel Avgar |
| Friday | February 19, 2010 |
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| Friday | February 26, 2010 |
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| Friday | March 5, 2010 |
CHRM Spring Roundtable | Chicago | Jean Drasgow | |||
| Friday | March 12, 2010 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (bottom level) | John-Paul Ferguson | Stanford Graduate School of Busi | https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp | Taekjin Shin |
| Friday | March 19, 2010 |
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| Friday | April 2, 2010 |
12:00-1:30 | LER WEC (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 | April 9, 2010 |
10:00-11:30 | BIF Rm 3007 | Steve Blader (co-sponsor: OB) | NYU | http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=302 | Naomi Rothman |
| Friday | April 16, 2010 |
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| Friday | April 23, 2010 |
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| Friday | April 30, 2010 |
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| Friday | May 7, 2010 |
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Past Lectures
Date |
LOCATION | Name | Affiliation | Lecture | ||
SPRING 2009 |
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| Friday |
January 23, 2009 |
Kim Wade-Benzoni | Duke University | "Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology and Intergenerational Decisions" | ||
| Friday |
January 30, 2009 |
Elizabeth Gorman | University of Virginia | |||
| Friday |
February 13, 2009 |
Ruby Mendenhall | Dept. of Sociology, UIUC | TBA | ||
| Monday |
February 27, 2009 joint w/College of Business |
Wohlers Hall | Timothy Vogus | Vanderbilt University | ||
| Friday |
March 6, 2009 |
Eric Neuman | School of Business at UIUC | TBA | ||
| Friday |
March 13 |
Ethan Cohen-Cole | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | TBA | ||
| Tuesday |
March 17 - joint w/Development/CBPP |
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | 3007 BIF | Giovanni Peri | University of California-Davis | TBA |
| Friday |
April 10, 2009 |
Chichun Fang and John Dencker | Labor & Emp. Relations at UIUC | TBA | ||
| Friday |
April 17, 2009 |
Dale Mortensen | Northwestern University | |||
| Friday |
May 1, 2009 |
MIT | ||||
| Friday |
November 21, 2008 |
Josh Angrist | University of Maryland | "Preferences and Choice Constraints in Martial Sorting: Evidence from Korea" | ||
(Joint with Applied Micro) |
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| Friday |
November 7, 2008 |
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| Friday |
October 31, 2008 |
LER WEC (bottom level) | Jason Shaw | University of Minnesota | "Employee-organziation Exchange relationships, HRM Practices, and Quit Rates of Good and Poor Performers" | |
| Friday |
October 17, 2008 |
Marianne Bitler | University of California-Irvine | "Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates" | ||
| Friday |
October 10, 2008 |
Rich Trumka | AFL-CIO | TBA | ||
| Friday |
October 3, 2008 |
Adam Stevenson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "Admissions Policy and the Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality" | ||
| Tuesday |
September 30, 2008 |
Ki-wook Kwon | Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: Focusing on High Performer Turnover" | ||
| 3007 BIF | Mel Stephens | Carbegie Mellon University | "Can Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits" | |||
| Friday |
September 19, 2008 |
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| Tuesday |
September 16, 2008 |
LER WEC (bottom level) | Sergey Popov | University of Illinois | "Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes" | |
| Andy Foster | Brown University | "Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs Help Reduce Pollution Levels? Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program" | ||||
(Joint w/ Development) |
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| Tuesday | September 9, 2008 |
223 David Kinley Hall | ||||
| Friday | August 29, 2008 |
Rebecca Givan | Cornell University | "The Public and Private Politics of Healthcare Employment: Rethinking the UK-US Comparison" | ||
April 25, 2008 |
David Goldberg | University of Illinois | Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm | |||
April 23, 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 | |||
| 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 | ||||
April 15, 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 2, 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 | |||
March 14, 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 28, 2008 |
Paul Oyer | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | "Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms" | |||
March 7, 2008 |
Bing Bai | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "The Impact of National Culture on High Performance Work Practices in U.S. Multinational Corporations Affiliates Using House's Cultural Scales" | |||
February 8, 2008 |
Michael Lovenheim | Stanford University | "The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States" | |||
February 1, 2008 |
Kevin Hallock | LER School, Cornell University | "The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities" 10:00 to 11:30AM | |||
January 25, 2008 |
Monica Bielski Boris | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "Community Labor United: Social Movement Unionism In Boston" | |||
November 30, 2007 |
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "Rethinking Labor and Employment Relations in the 21st Century: Presentation and Dialogue" | |||
November 27, 2007 |
Ofer Malamud | University of Chicago | "The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation" | |||
November 9, 2007 |
Ji-Young Ahn | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "Does Stock-Based Pay Attenuate Destructive Competition among Top Executives?" 9:30AM to 10:30AM, room 43. | |||
October 26, 2007 |
Helena Worthen | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "The AFSCME Family Scholarships: Children look at their parents' lives in the union" | |||
October 12, 2007 |
Niti Pandey | School of Labor and Employment 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 11, 2007 |
Angus Deaton | Princeton University | "Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height" | |||
October 5, 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 | |||
September 28, 2007 |
Greg Northcraft | School of Labor and Employment Relations and College of Business, UIUC | "How to Write a CHRM Proposal" | |||
August 31, 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" | |||
| John Dencker | School of Labor and Employment Relations, UIUC | "Corporate Restructuring and Sex Differences in Managerial Promotion" |