Conference theme:

Labor Force and Employment: Patterns and Trends in "New Europe" Countries

Day One: April 27 (Friday)

10.00 Registration

11.00 Welcoming address

11.30 – 13.30 Session 1: Labor Force and Employment Patterns in Transition:
The Impact of the Communist Past

Papers:

• Professor Raul Eamets, Ph.D. Tartu University, Estonia
• Professor Jan Winiecki, Ph.D.,LL.D. University of Information Technology and Management, Poland

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 17.00 Session 2: How Far From Standard (Mature) Labor Markets
Are "New Europe" Countries?

Papers:

• Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz, Ph.D. University College of London, United Kingdom
• Professor Ondrej Schneider, Ph.D., and Dr. Kamila Fialova, Charles University, Prague

17.15 – 18.15 Sightseeing tour of the Lancut Castle

20.00 Reception and dinner

9.00 – 11.00 Session 3: What Is More Beneficial to Employment Growth:
Elimination of Institutional Distortions (Overregulation, High Taxes, etc.) or Improving the Underdeveloped Financial Markets?

Papers:

• Professor Iraj Hashi, Ph.D. Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom
• Professor Andreas Wörgötter, Ph.D. Economics Department OECD, Paris

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.30 Session 4: Polices Attempting to Stimulate Employment Growth:
Theorizing and Economic Reality

Papers:

• Dr. Peter Huber, Labor Market Division, WIFO Institute, Vienna, Austria
• Beata Manthey, Analyst, European Bank for Reconstuction and Development, London, U.K.