IZA Workshop: Labor Market Institutions
Program
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+++ presentation: 20 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
Thursday, September 22
14:45 - 15:00
Welcome
Session A: Minimum Wage
Chair: Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
15:00 - 15:30
Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University and IZA), Robert Joyce (IFS), Attila Lindner (UCL and IZA), Tom Waters (IFS), Tom Wernham (IFS), Xiaowei Xu (IFS)
"The Employment and Distributional Impacts of Nationwide Minimum Wage Changes"
15:30 - 16:00
Moritz Drechsel-Grau (University of Zurich)
"Macroeconomic and Distributional Implications of Higher Minimum Wages"
Session B: Search
Chair: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA)
16:00 - 16:30
Heike Vethaak (University of Leiden), Bas van der Klaauw (VU Amsterdam and IZA)
"Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers"
16:30 - 17:00
Attila Gyetvai (Bank of Portugal and IZA), Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University and IZA), Ekaterina Jardim (Amazon), Arnaud Maurel (Duke University and IZA)
"Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models"
17:00 - 17:30
Break
Session C: Payroll Taxes
Chair: Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
17:30 - 18:00
Lili Katalin Mark (CEU), Anikó Bíró (CERS), Réka Branyiczki (CEU), Attila Lindner (UCL and IZA), Dániel Prinz (World Bank)
"Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes"
18:00 - 18:30
Sam Desiere (Ghent University and IZA), Bart Cockx (Ghent University and IZA)
"Payroll Taxes, Firm Entry and Labor Demand"
Session D: Monopsony I
Chair: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA)
18:30 - 19:00
Filippo Passerini (Catholic University Milan)
"Monopsony in Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Italian Firms"
19:00 - 19:30
Friday, September 23
Session E: Monopsony II
Chair: Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
15:00 - 15:30
Andrea Bassanini (OECD and IZA), Giulia Bovini (Bank of Italy), Eve Caroli (Université Paris-Dauphine and IZA), et al.
"Labor Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe"
15:30 - 16:00
Michael Siegenthaler (ETH Zurich and IZA), Achim Ahrens (ETH Zurich), Andreas Beerli ( ETH Zurich and IZA), Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich), Selina Kurer (ETH Zurich)
"The Labor Market Effects of Restricting Refugees' Employment Opportunities"
16:00 - 16:30
Alexander Willén (Norwegian School of Economics), Samuel Dodini (NHH), Mike Lovenheim (Cornell University), Kjell Salvanes (NHH and IZA)
"Monopsony, Skills, and Labor Market Concentration"
16:30 - 16:45
Break
Session F: Non–Compete Agreements
Chair: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA)
16:45 - 17:15
Clemens Mueller (University of Mannheim)
"How Reduced Labor Mobility Can Lead to Inefficient Reallocation of Human Capital"
17:15 - 17:45
Tristan Potter (Drexel University), Bart Hobijn (Arizona State University), Andre Kurmann (Drexel University)
"On the Inefficiency of Non-Competes in Low-Wage Labor Markets"
17:45 - 18:00
Break
Session G: Working Hours
Chair: Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
18:00 - 18:30
Daniele Checchi (University of Milan and IZA), Cecilia Garcia Penalosa (Aix-Marseille University), Lara Vivian (European Commission)
"Hours Inequality"
18:30 - 19:00
Pauline Carry (CREST-ENSAE)
"The Effects of Minimum Working Hours: Theory and Evidence"
19:00 - 19:30
Hélène Turon (University of Bristol and IZA), Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and IZA), Etienne Lalé (University of Québec at Montréal and IZA)
"Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market"
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