Description
This conference will bring together researchers interested in population well-being in the region and provide an opportunity for extended dialogue among academic and policy researchers, government officials and policymakers to promote use evidence-based decision making at all levels.
The goals of the conference are to:
- Bring together researchers interested in population well-being in the region and disseminate findings from high quality studies on quality of life and wellbeing.
- Provide an opportunity for extended dialogue among academic and policy researchers, government officials and policy makers to promote use of evidence and analytics in the decision making at all levels to improve population wellbeing.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann is a leading scholar and prominent policy authority in labor economics, population economics, migration and other areas of economics.
Currently Professor Zimmermann is Co – Director, POP – Centre for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT, Maastricht and Visiting Professor at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He was a Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) from April 1998 until February 2016. Under his leadership the institute established itself among the world’s leading research institutions and think tanks in the field of labor economics. Since 2017 he is also the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).
Hosted by: Kyiv School of Economics and VoxUkraine
Supporting organizations: University of Kent, University of California-Berkeley
Co-funders: ACES, SITE, IDF, EXCEPT
Conference Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent)
Academic Program Chair: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkley)
Policy Program Chair: Tymofiy Mylovanov (Kyiv School of Economics)
Organizing Committee: Olga Kupets (Kyiv School of Economics), Mariya Aleksynska (ILO), Irina Denisova (New Economic School) and Iryna Sobetska (Kyiv School of Economics)
Agenda:
September 14:
08:30 – 09:00 – Registration and welcome coffee
09:00 – 09:15 – Welcome speech: Tymofiy Mylovanov, KSE Honorary President; Olena Nizalova, University of Kent, Conference Chair
09:15 – 10:15 – Keynote Lecture – Klaus Zimmermann Migration and Wellbeing
10:15 – 10:45 – Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 – Panel discussion 1: Migration caused by conflicts: Well-being of refugees and internally displaced people. Chair: Klaus Zimmermann, Professor, UNU-MERIT and GLO
Speakers:
Lidiia Kuzmenko, Associate Legal Officer, UNHCR Representation in Ukraine, Klavdiya Maksymenko, Senior Country Officer for Ukraine, World Bank, Yusuf Kurkchi, First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine, Mustafa Nayem, MP, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Bohdan Melnykovych, Lawyer, Charitable Foundation “Vostok SOS”, Anna Trofimenko, Community Outreach Worker, Civil Society Organization “Crimea SOS”
12:15 – 13:15 – Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 – Research session 1: Migration. Chair: Hanna Vakhitova, Kyiv School of Economics
War and Well-Being in Transition, Gunes Gokmen, New Economic School
Discussant: Alexander Danzer
Job market outcomes of IDPs: the case of Georgia, Karine Torosyan, International School of Economics at TSU (ISET)
Discussant: Gunes Gokmen
The well-being of migrants during the global financial crisis: Evidence on illegal employment, ethnic discrimination and deportation, Alexander Danzer, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstad
Discussant: Olga Kupets
Research session 2: Well-being and labor market. Chair: Maksym Obrizan, Kyiv School of Economics
Self-employment and wellbeing: a comparative study, Oleksandr Talavera, Swansea University
Discussant: Elena Besedina
How Unemployment affects Subjective Wellbeing in Ukraine, Edward Norton, University of Michigan and NBER
Discussant: Mariya Aleksynska
Temporary and Informal Employment, Work Quality, and Job Satisfaction, Mariya Aleksynska, ILO
Discussant: Hartmut Lehmann
14:45 – 16:15 – Research session 3: Family & gender. Chair: Oleksandr Talavera, Swansea University
Math, Girls and Socialism, Quentin Lippmann, Paris School of Economics
Discussant: Maksym Obrizan
Children’s (Un)happiness in Transition, Maksym Obrizan, Kyiv School of Economics
Discussant: Oleksandr Talavera
Going Beyond the First Child Analysis of Russian Mothers’ Desired and Actual Fertility Patterns, Elena Besedina, Kyiv School of Economics
Discussant: Quentin Lippman
Research session 4: Health. Chair: Ilona Sologub, Kyiv School of Economics
The Impact of Transition on Height and Subjective Well-Being, Francesca Dalla Pozza, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Discussant: Edward Norton
Alcohol consumption habits in Eastern and Western Europe, Gintare Malisauskaite, University of Kent
Discussant: Francesca Dalla Poza
Impact of TB Epidemic on Worker and Firm Productivity: Regional Perspective, Olena Nizalova, University of Kent
Discussant: Oleksandra Betliy
16:15 – 16:45 – Coffee break
16:45 – 18:15 – Panel discussion 2: In the Name of Population Well-Being: A Pathway to Better Health. Chair: Olena Doroshenko, Health Specialist/Economist, World Bank’s Human Development programs in Ukraine
Speakers: Ulana Suprun, Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine, MoH, Ukraine, Edward C. Norton, Professor, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Sergii Berezenko, Member of Parliament, Health Committee, Taavi Lai, Senior Policy Adviser, WHO CO Ukraine, Olga Stefanyshyna, executive director of Patients of Ukraine charitable foundation, Volodymyr Spivak, Corporate Communications and Corporate Affairs Director, Nestlé, Vasyl Lazoryshynets, Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery
Panel discussion 3: Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Peculiarities of Panel Data Collection in Post-Soviet Context. Chair: Olga Kupets, Kyiv School of Economics and IZA
Speakers: Alexander Danzer, Professor at Catholic University Eichstätt, IOS and IZA, Benedikt Herrmann, European Commission, Hartmut Lehmann, Professor at University of Bologna, IZA, ICID and DIW, Vladimir Paniotto, Kiev International Institute of Sociology and Professor at NaUKMA, Victoria Zakhoza, Kiev International Institute of Sociology
19:00-21:30 – Conference dinner
September 15
9:00 – 10:30 – Research session 5: Happiness and transition. Chair: Olesia Verchenko, Kyiv School of Economics
The Dynamics of the Level of Happiness and its Determinants. Ukraine 2001-2016, Vladimir Paniotto, Kiev International Institute of Sociology
Discussant: Elena Nikolova
Communism as the Second Coming, Elena Nikolova, Central European Labour Studies Institute (Slovakia), Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Germany)
Discussant: Sergei Guriev
The Happiness Transition, Sergei Guriev, EBRD, Sciences Po, and CEPR
Discussant: Vladimir Paniotto
Research session 6: Well-being and labor market (II). Chair: Viktor Khanzhyn, Kyiv School of Economics
Evolving Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine, Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna
Discussant: Hanna Onyshchenko
Youth on the move: job mobility and well-being at work in transition economies, Olga Kupets, Kyiv School of Economics and IZA
Discussant: Karine Torosyan
Wage penalty for overeducation among Youth in Armenia, Ukraine and Russia: Does it exist?, Hanna Onyschenko, National Bank of Ukraine
Discussant: Gintare Malisauskaite
10:30 – 11:30 – Coffee-break and session with journalists
11:30 – 13:00 – Panel discussion 4: Wellbeing Implications of Land Reform in Ukraine. Chair: Ludmila Butenko, Program Leader for Infrastructure and Sustainable Development at The World Bank
Speakers: Maksym Martynyuk, Acting Minister, Ministry of Agriculture (TBC), Denys Nizalov, Head of the project “Reform support in agriculture and land relations in Ukraine”, Dmytro Shymkiv, Secretary at the Reform Council to the President of Ukraine (TBC), Vadym Ivchenko, MP, Mykhailo Sokolov, Deputy Head at the Association of the Rural Councils of Ukraine, Mykola Stryzhak, Association of Farmers and Landowners
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 – Panel discussion 5: Youth in the Focus: impact of labour market exclusion and job insecurity on later life outcomes (EXCEPT project panel). Chair: Julia Smolyar, Senior Social Protection Specialist, World Bank
Speakers: Volodymyr Kovtunets, First Deputy Minister of Education, Olena Nizalova,University of Kent, EXCEPT-UK team leader, Mariya Aleksynska, Labour Economist, ILO, Geneva, Oleksandr Yarema, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Sports and Youth, Ihor Samokhin, CEDOS, Serhiy Kravchenko, Deputy Head, State Employment Service
15:15 – 15:30 – Coffee-break
15:30 – 16:45 – Panel discussion 6: Pension System as a Wellbeing Institute: Case for Reform in Ukraine. Chair: Ihor Burakovsky, Head of the Board, Insitute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
Speakers: Andriy Reva, the Minister of Social Policy, Julia Smolyar, Senior Social Protection Specialist, World Bank, Lidiia Tkachenko, Leading Research Fellow, Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tatyana Salnikova, Director at Association of Pension Funds of Ukraine, Oleksandra Betliy, Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
16:45 – 17:45 – Panel discussion 7: International organisations and population wellbeing. Chair: Tymofiy Mylovanov, Kyiv School of Economics
Speakers: Sergei Guriev, Chief Economics, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Klavdiya Maksymenko, Senior Country Officer for Ukraine, World Bank, Berend de Groot, Head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Maria Aleksynskaya, ILO National Coordinator for Ukraine
17:45 – 18:15 – Open interview “What prevents people in post Soviet countries to be happy?” with Sergei Guriev Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Borys Davidenko, Editor-in-Chief, VoxUkraine
18:15 – 18:30 – Closing remarks: Tymofiy Mylovanov, KSE Honorary President; Ruben Enikolopov, Journal of Comparative Economics Editor; Olena Nizalova, University of Kent, Conference Chair.
Hilton hotel, Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd, 30
09:00-18:30, September 14–15, 2017
