International Conference on Inequality
Dates : May 28-29, 2010
Organizers : (Korea University) & (Korea University)
Assistant : (Korea University)
This conference is made possible by generous support from the following institutes:
We are most grateful to them.
Lodging : Hotel President
All participants should have free acess to internet in their hotel rooms. Please ask the front desk how to use it.
Directions from Airports to the Hotel:
From Incheon International Airport
From Gimpo International Airport
May 27 (Thursday): John Roemer's lectures on global warming
John Roemer, due to his bad health condition, cannot attend the conference. So his lectures are cancelled.
Woojin Lee and Biunghi Ju will have dinner with the participants in a buffet restaurant of the hotel at 7:00 pm. The name of the restaurant is Eunhasu (meaning Milky Way in Korean), and is located in the 31st floor of the hotel.
May 28 (Friday): Conference Date 1
A bus will pick up the participants at 8:30 am in the hotel. Please come down to the hotel lobby by that time.
Place: Political Science and Economics Building 201, Korea University
| 09:20 am - 09:50 am | Coffee and snack |
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| 09:50 am - 10:00 am | Welcoming messages Dr. Chang-Ho Yoon (Dean, College of Political Science and Economics, Korea University) |
| 10:00 am - 11:50 pm Session 1 (Chair: Man-Jong Lee) |
Vito Peragine (University of Bari, Italy),
Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe Woojin Lee (Korea University, Korea) and Atsuko Ueda (Waseda University, Japan),
How Much Do Tax-Benenfit Policies in East Asian Countries Equalize Opportunities among Their Citizens? |
| 12:00 pm - 01:40 pm | Lunch (Wehago) |
01:45 pm - 03:35 pm |
Jen-Der Lue (National Chungcheng University, Taiwan), Globalization and the Internal Segregation of the Labor Market: The Analysis of Taiwan's Experience In-Koo Cho (University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne, USA), Social Foundation of Nash Bargaining Solution |
| 03:50 pm - 05:40 pm Session 3 (Chair: Manseop Park) |
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University, Japan), Exploitation as the Unequal Exchange of Labor: An Axiomatic Approach Chun-Hsien Yeh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Axiomatic Characterizations and a Non-Cooperative Justification of the Contrained Equal Benefits Rule in Airport Problems |
| 6:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Dinner (Sam-Chung-Gak) |
May 29 (Saturday): Conference Date 2
A bus will pick up the participants at 8:10 am in the hotel. Please come down to the hotel lobby by that time.
Place: Political Science and Economics Building 201, Korea University
| 09:00 am - 09:20 am | Coffee and snack |
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| 09:20 am - 11:50 am Session 4 (Chair: Cheol-Beom Park) |
Pedro Rosa Dias (University of York, UK), Quality of Schooling and Inequality of Opportunity in Health Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway, Norway),
On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility Sang-Ho Nam (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea), Analysis of the Net Worth of the Poor in Korea |
| 11:50 am - 1:40 pm | Lunch (Inchon Memorial Hall) |
| 01:45 pm - 03:35 pm Session 5 (Chair: Jae-Hyun Nam) |
Biung-Ghi Ju (Korea University, Korea), Voting over Tax Schedules under a Veil of Ignorance Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University, Korea), Balanced Consistency and Balanced Cost Reduction for Sequencing Problems |
| 03:50 pm - 05:40 pm Session 6 (Chair: Woojin Lee) |
Caterina Calsamiglia (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain),
The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament Alain Trannoy (GREQAM-IDEP, France),
Effort or Circumstances: Which One Matters in Health Inequality |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner (The C) |