Updated: 08/10/2004

30 September 2004
09:00	Registration and coffee
Chair day 1: prof. dr. Geert Van Hootegem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium
09:30	Welcome and opening by Monique Ramioul, STILE project co-ordinator - Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Belgium Presentations
09:45	KEYNOTE SPEECH Eurostat representative Introduction: Measuring the Information Society
PLENARY SESSION 1 Labour market mobility in the old and the New Economy: the hard figures
10:30	Alex Stimpson, CAMIRE, Estadística y Análisis, S.L. - Luxembourg & Maarten Tielens, Resource Center for Labour Market Research - Belgium Measuring labour market mobility in the ICT sector: findings from the EU LFS and the Belgian Datawarehouse Abstracts - Presentations
11:00	Coffee break
11:10	Mikael Åkerblom, Statistics Finland A cost benefit assessment of administrative databases and surveys in measuring labour market mobility Abstacts - Presentations
11:45	Anders Ekeland, STEP group - Norway Reflections on mobility in the New Economy Abstracts - Presentations
12:20	Questions and discussion with the audience
12:30	Lunch
PLENARY SESSION 2 Occupations in the Information Age: how to understand
13:30	An Bollen, Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium New occupations in a new economic environment: European similarities and diversity Abstracts - Presentations
14:00	Yvette Prévot, ANPE – France Occupational profiling as a labour market policy instrument: the French ROME classification
14:35	Prof. dr. Ben Hövels, The Knowledge Center for Vocational Education and Labour Market - The Netherlands The emergence of occupations and professions in the New Economy
15:10	Questions & discussion with the audience
15:20	Coffee break
PLENARY SESSION 3 Organisation Panel Surveys in Europe: towards more convergence
15:30	Dr. Markus Promberger, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - Germany & Prof. dr. Peter Ester, Amelia Román, OSA - Institute for Labor Studies – The Netherlands Towards more convergence of organisation surveys in Europe Abstracts - Presentations
16:00	Nathalie Greenan & Jacques Mairesse, Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi (CNRS) – France Measuring organisational change: evidence from a matched employer-employee survey in French manufacturin Abstracts
16:35	Dr. Piet Allaart, Dr. Lutz Bellmann, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - Germany & Gert Theunissen, Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium Employer’s demand for part-time workers in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium – a comparative analysis based on three organisation panel surveys Abstracts - Presentations
17:10	Questions & discussion with the audience
20:00	Conference dinner (advance registration required)
1 October 2004
Chair day 2: prof. dr. Peter Ester, OSA - Institute for Labor Studies – The Netherlands
09:30	KEYNOTE SPEECH: Detlef Gerhardt, European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs Offshore outsourcing of IST services from an EU policy perspective Abstracts - Presentations
PLENARY SESSION 4 eWork in Europe: common understandings and new realities
10:10	Giovanna Altieri, Francesca della Ratta & Cristina Oteri, Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (IRES) - Italy How to measure eWork in social surveys Abstracts - Presentations
10:40	Coffee break
10:50	Joanne Pratt, Joanne H. Pratt Associates - USA Telework: the latest figures Abstracts - Presentations
11:30	Prof. dr. Csaba Makó, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ISB) - Hungary eWork in the New Member Countries Does it help to open new development paths? Abstracts - Presentations
12:10	Questions & discussion with the audience
12:20	Lunch
PLENARY SESSION 5 Coding practices and classifications of eBusinesses and eOccupations: the blind spots now mapped
13:30	Prof. Ursula Huws, Institute for Employment Studies - UK & Peter van der Hallen, Resource Center for Labour Market Research - Belgium Opening the black box of coding practices in Europe: findings from the STILE experiment Abstracts - Presentations
14:40	Coffee break
14:50	Eivind Hoffmann, Unit for statistics and analysis, Strategy and Documentation Department, Norwegian Directorate of Immigration & Adriana Mata Greenwood, Bureau of Statistics, International Labour Office Reflections on the STILE experiment in view of the on-going ISCO-88 updating process Abstracts - Presentations
15:30	Desirée van Welsum & Dr. Graham Vickery, OECD – France Potential offshoring of ICT-using occupations Abstracts - Presentations
16:10	Questions & discussion with the audience
16:20	Conclusions and recommendations by Monique Ramioul, STILE project co-ordinator - Higher Institute for Labour Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Belgium

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