During the semester students shall attend two MUES seminars (or online webinars) and elaborate two critical summaries. You are free to choose from the list below or you may also propose other webinars to the class (after consultation with lecturers). You will need to register yourself to attend some seminars in advance. 

MUES - Research seminars organized at the Faculty (https://mues.econ.muni.cz/) 

October 12, 14:00-15:00, Room P304
Esther Arenas Arroyo : Unintended Consequences of Immigration Policy on Children’s Human Capital

October 21, 14:00- 15:00, Room S315
Miloš Fišar : Delegation and overhead aversion with multiple threshold public goods

November 11, 14:00-15:00,  Room P106
Christian Ochsner: Dying for ignorance? 1918-influenza mortality, vaccination skepticism and vaccination behavior

December 2, 14:00-15:00,  Online seminar (https://mues.econ.muni.cz/research-seminars)
Giacomo Battiston: Informing Risky Migration: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea

Online events:

December 8, 17:30-18:30  (seminar on "The Economics of Migration") (Zoom link)
Selina Gangl (University of Freiburg))
How Residence Permits Affect the Labor Market Attachment of Foreign Workers: Evidence from a Migration Lottery in Liechtenstein 

December 14, 14:00-15:00  (IZA seminar link) 
David Deming (Harvard University)
The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job 

PAST EVENTS: 

October 5, 15:00-16:00 
Daniel S. Hamermesh (Barnard College and IZA)
Sleep, Time and Stress: What Can Economists Uniquely Contribute? 
Register ASAP: https://conference.iza.org/event/tumh2021 

October 5-6, 15:00-19:00 
you can select one from many talks in the conference
Economics of Time Use and Mental Health: Stress, Sleep, Fatigue and Employment 
Register: https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/TimeUseMentalHealth_2021/viewProgram?conf_id=3402

October 6, 15:15-16:15 (Zoom link)
David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College & GLO) 
The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment (paper)

October 7, 15.15 – 17.15 (EBES conference)
Different speakers
GLO Session Migration I

October 8, 16.30 – 18.30 (EBES conference)
Different speakers
GLO Session Migration II

October 19, 14:00-15:00 (IZA seminar link)
John N. Friedman (Brown University)
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

October 20, 17:30-18:30  (seminar on "The Economics of Migration")  (Zoom link)
Fabian Waldinger (University of Munich)
Academics at Risk: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

October 27, 17:30-18:30  (seminar on "The Economics of Migration") (Zoom link)
Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (Paris School of Economics)
Media Coverage of Immigration, and the Polarization of Attitudes

November 2, 14:00-15:00 (Zoom link)  (IOS seminar)
Sergey Kapelyuk (Siberian University of Consumer Cooperation)
Impact of COVID-19 on skill requirements and skill returns: Evidence from job websites

November 4, 15:00-16:00 (register to obtain the Zoom link) 
Roman Hoffmann (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
Climate Change and Internal Migration: Evidence from Global Census Data

November 9, 17:00-18:00  (IZA seminar link) 
Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley and IZA)
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers

November 10, 17:30-18:30  (seminar on "The Economics of Migration") (Zoom link)
Avinandan Chakraborty  (University of New Mexico)
The Impact of Return Migration on the School–Work Tradeoff and Labor Outcomes of Adolescents

November 16, 14:00-15:00  (Zoom link ) IOS seminar (Passcode: 088712)
Fabrizio Pompei (University of Perugia) 
When robots do (not) enhance job quality: The role of innovation regimes

November 18, 12:45-13:45 (MS Teams link) (VSE seminar link)
Olga Popova (IOS Regensburg)
Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction

November 30, 14:00-15:00  (Zoom link ) IOS seminar (Passcode: 553248)
Guillaume Gueguen (Paris School of Economics)
Adopting Telework: The causal impact of working from home on subjective wellbeing during the Covid-19 lockdown

December 2, 14:00-15:00  (Zoom link ) IOS seminar
Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim)
Labour Market Integration of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: Lessons for the Recent Refugees

December 2, 14:00-15:00 (Zoom link)
David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College & GLO) 
The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment (paper)