Economics of Crisis, Education and Labour

Date: 30th June
Location: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(H-1051 Budapest Széchenyi István tér 9.)
3rd floor: Cupola Room

8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:10 Greetings
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome speech by Károly FAZEKAS, director of IEHAS
9:05 - 9:10 Greetings by LI Shi, director of SEBA academic committee, BNU

30th June – Session One: Economics of Education I.  
Chair: László HALPERN, deputy director, IEHAS
 
9:10 - 9:45 Several Problems of Economics of Education During the Process of China’s Educational Reform and Development - WANG Shanmai, professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
9:45 - 10:20 The Roma/non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary - Gábor KÉZDI, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
Working paper
10:20 - 10:55 Early Selection in Hungary - A possible Cause of High Educational Inequality - Dániel HORN, research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
10:55 - 11:10 Coffee-tea break

30th June – Session Two: Economics of Education II. 
Chair: QU Ruxiao, professor, BNU SEBA
 
11:10 - 11:45 The Labour Market Value of Higher Education in the 2000s in Hungary, the Role of Field of Study and Home Institutions - Júlia VARGA, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
11:45 - 12:20 Does China Graduates’ Employment Status Become Worse with Educational Expansion? - SUN Zhijun associate professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
12:20 - 12:55 How Inequality of Opportunity and Mean Student Performance are Related? A Quantile Regression Approach Using PISA Data - Zoltán HERMANN, research fellow, IEHAS
Working paper
Discussions & questions
12:55 - 14:00 Lunch

30th June – Session Three: Economics of Labour I. 
Chair: György MOLNÁR, senior research fellow, IEHAS
 
14:00 - 14:35 Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China during 1988-2007 - LI Shi, professor, BNU SEBA
Discussions & questions
14:35 - 15:10 An Attempt to Identify Grey Employment – Estimation of Wage Under-reporting and Tests of the Predictions - János KÖLLŐ, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Working paper
Discussions & questions
15:10 - 15:45 Earnings Differentials between the Public and the Private Sectors in China: Explaining Changing Trends for Urban Locals in the 2000s - YANG Juan, assistant professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee-tea break

30th June – Session Four: Economics of Labour II. 
Chair: LI Shi, professor, BNU SEBA

16:00 - 16:35 Public-Private Wage Spillovers - Evidence from Hungary - Álmos TELEGDY, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
16:35 - 17:10 Returns to Education in Off-farm Wage Employment in Rural China - LIU Zeyun, associate professor, BNU SEBA
Discussions & questions
17:10 - 17:45 Competition and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from Transitional Linked Employer-Employee Data - Anna LOVÁSZ, junior research fellow, IEHAS
Working paper
Discussions & questions
17:45 - 18:20 Foreign Ownership and Wage Inequality in Hungary, 1986-2008 - Gábor ANTAL, junior research fellow, IEHAS
Working paper
Discussions & questions
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner

Date: 1st of July
Location: Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(H-1051 Budapest Arany János u. 1), Vasarely Room

1st July – Session Five: Crisis and EU accession
Chair: ZHANG Ping, deputy director, IE CASS
 
9:00 - 9:35 The Crisis in the Euro-zone and Lessons for Euro-adoption in Hungary - Gábor OBLATH, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
9:35 - 10:10 Accession of the New EU Member Countries into the Euro-Zone - Tamás RÉTI, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
10:10 - 10:45 The Effect of the Crisis on Consumption - György MOLNÁR, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
10:45 – 11.00 Coffee-tea break

1st July – Session Six: Crisis and transformation I. 
Chair: Károly Attila SOÓS, senior research fellow, IEHAS

11.00 - 11:35 Transformation of China's Growth Model - ZHANG Xiaiojing, professor, IE CASS
Short essay
Discussions & questions
11:35 – 12.10 Spatial Disparities of Adaptation to Crisis in China - Mária CSANÁDI, research advisor, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
Working paper
12.10 - 12:45 R&D Transaction Choice by MNCs in China: Empirical Analysis Based on Contracts - ZHENG Feihu, associate professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch

1st July Session Seven: Crisis and transformation II.
Chair: Gábor OBLATH, senior research fellow, IEHAS

13:30 - 14:05 Ten Years After: Hungarian Big Entrepreneurs in the European Union - Mihály LAKI, research advisor, IEHAS
Working paper
Discussions & questions
14:05 - 14:40 Linking Organizational Culture with Performance: The Mediating role of Human Resource Capability and Moderating Role of Environmental Uncertainty - LI Hai, associate professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
14:40 - 15:15 The Evolution and the Performance of the Hungarian National Innovation System - Attila HAVAS, senior research fellow, IEHAS
Discussions & questions
15.15 – 15:50 The Factors of Trade of Chinese Cultural Products—An Empirical Analysis based on Panel Data - QU Ruxiao, professor, BNU SEBA
Working paper
Discussions & questions
15:50 – 16:05 Closing remarks
LI Shi, director of SEBA academic committee, BNU
Mária CSANÁDI, workshop organizer, IEHAS

Papers submitted but not presented:

Education Finance Policy in China’s Medium and Long-Term Guideline for Education - YUAN Liansheng professor, BNU SEBA

Constraints, Characteristics and Prospects of China's Transformation — The Rethinking about China's Economic Transformation - LI You - associate professor, BNU SEBA

The construction of four-dimensional evaluation system of international human resource competitiveness, the measurement and the comparison - LI Baoyuan - professor, BNU SEBA