TPI_workshop2025

International Workshop on
“Skills and demographic transitions: Labour
markets, productivity and welfare”

September 19 and 20, 2025
Auditorium Chiesa San Girolamo
Via San Girolamo 6/8, Urbino (Italy)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Germana Giombini (University of Urbino, germana.giombini@uniurb.it)
Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London, mary.omahony@kcl.ac.uk)
Michela Vecchi (Kingston University London, M.Vecchi@kingston.ac.uk)
Francesco Venturini (University of Urbino, francesco.venturini@uniurb.it)

 

PROGRAMME
Friday 19th SEPTEMBER

10:00 – 10:30 REGISTRATION
10:30 – 10:50 WELCOME ADDRESS: Giorgio Calcagnini (Rector, University of Urbino), Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London), Michela Vecchi (Kingston University)
11:00 – 12:30 Session: WELLBEING AND PERFORMANCE
Chair: Simone Schnall
• Simone Schnall (University of Cambridge) “Workplace Wellbeing, Motivation, and Productivity: Exploring Generational Differences”
• Michela Vecchi (Kingston University London) “Work is Better when you Dance”
• Lavinia Kinne (DIW Berlin) “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 – 14:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Mary O’Mahony
• Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) “Fertility, Longevity and Economic Growth”

14:30 – 16:00 Session: AGING AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Chair: Francesco Venturini
• Thomas Zwick (University of Wü rzburg) “Age and Productivity – Lessons from the Recent Literature”
• Daniele Patiti (Kings’s College London) “Could Ageing Help to Explain Regional Productivity Patterns?”
• Ana Abeliansky (Austrian National Bank) “Infection Risk at Work, Automatability, and Employment”

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 – 17:30 Session: HEALTH POLICY
Chair: Michela Vecchi
• Francesco Moscone (Brunei University & University of Venice) “Hospital Productivity and Health Care Spending: Evidence from Italy”
• Asako Ohinata (University of Leicester) “Does It Matter Who Cares for you? The Effect of Substituting Informal with Formal Personal Care on the Care Recipients”

20.00-22.30 SOCIAL DINNER

 

Saturday 20th SEPTEMBER
9:30 – 11:00 Session: SKILLS AND UK LABOUR MARKET
Chair: Golo Henseke
• Larissa Marioni (NIESR) “Using New Sources of Data to Understand Skill Demand and Supply: A Regional Analysis”
• Golo Henseke (University College London) “How Exposed are UK Jobs to ChatGPT? A Task-Level Assessment Using LLMs”
• Francesca Foliano (University of Southampton) “Time Use vs Migration Premium”

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 Session: AI, AUTOMATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
Chair: Germana Giombini
• Germana Giombini, Ludovica Segneri, Francesco Venturini (University of Urbino) “AI and Firm Financial Conditions”
• Kate Robinson (University of Brighton) “Technology Adoption and Skills in UK \irms: A Panacea for Productivity”
• Tomohiko Inui (Gakushuin University) “The Impact of Robot Adoption on Firm-Level Outcomes and Trade: Empirical Evidence from China”