IZA Workshop: Heterogeneity and the Labor Market

Friday, November 22:

08:30	-	08:45		Registration
08:45	-	09:00		Welcome Remarks
				Session A: Labor Market Power
09:00	-	09:40		Arindrajit Dube (University of Massachusetts Amherst and IZA), Alan Manning (London School of Economics, CEPR), Suresh Naidu (Columbia University, NBER)
				"Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers"
09:40	-	10:20		Kyle Herkenhoff (University of Minnesota and IZA)
				"Mergers in the Labor Market"
10:20	-	11:00		Claudia Macaluso (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Brad Hershbein (Upjohn Institute and IZA), Chen Yeh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
				"Monopsony in the US Labor Market"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Session B: Labor Supply
11:30	-	12:10		Isabel Cairo (Federal Reserve Board), Shigeru Fujita (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), Camilo Morales-Jiménez (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
				"Elasticities of Labor Supply and Labor Force Participation Flows"
12:10	-	12:50		Serdar Birinci (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
				"Spousal Labor Supply Response to Job Displacement and Implications for Optimal Transfers"
12:50	-	13:40		Lunch
				Session C: Labor Market Mobility
13:40	-	14:20		Abigail Wozniak (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and IZA), Raven Molloy (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Christopher L. Smith (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
				"Changing Stability in US Employment Relationships: A Tale of Two Tails"
14:20	-	15:00		Robert E. Hall (Stanford University), Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
				"Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics"
15:00	-	15:40		Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto), Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Jae Song (Social Security Administration)
				"Sources of Earnings Growth Heterogeneity"
15:40	-	16:10		Coffee Break
				Session D: Earnings Dynamics and Labor Market Mobility
16:10	-	16:50		Amanda Michaud (University of Western Ontario), Bulent Guler (Indiana University)
				"Dynamics of Deterrence: A Macroeconomic Perspective on Punitive Justice Policy"
16:50	-	17:30		Kieran Larkin (University College London)
				"Job Risk, Separation Shocks and Household Asset Allocation"
17:30	-	18:10		Felix Wellschmied (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and IZA), Manuel Sanchez (University of Bristol)
				"Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks"
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, November 23:

				Session E: Wage Structures and Wage Inequality
08:30	-	09:10		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"
09:10	-	09:50		Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University and IZA), Tobias Broer (Institute for International Economic Studies), John Kramer (Institute for International Economic Studies)
				"The Curious Incidence of Aggregate Shocks Across Households"
09:50	-	10:30		Hans-Martin von Gaudecker (University of Bonn and IZA), Michael Böhm (University of Bonn and IZA), Felix Schran (IZA and University of Bonn)
				"Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Session F: Firms and the Labor Market
11:00	-	11:40		Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA), Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (University of Essex and IZA), Hermann Gartner (IAB)
				"Understanding Vacancy Yields: Evidence from German Data"
11:40	-	12:20		Almut Balleer (RWTH Aachen University), Hamzeh Arabzadeh (RWTH Aachen University), Britta Gehrke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA)
				"Uncovering the Mechanism(s): Financial Constraints and Wages"
12:20	-	13:10		Lunch
				Session G: Sorting
13:10	-	13:50		Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
				"Machine Learning the Labor Market"
13:50	-	14:30		Christoph Hedtrich (Uppsala University), Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Roberto Pinheiro (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
				"Automation, Spatial Sorting and Job Polarization"
14:30	-	15:10		Pieter A. Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA), Xiaoming Cai (Tongji University), Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto)
				"Search, Screening and Sorting"
15:10	-	15:30		Coffee Break
				Session H: Firm Heterogeneity
15:30	-	16:10		Michael Johannes Böhm (University of Bonn and IZA), Khalil Esmkhani (University of British Columbia, Sauder), Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
				"Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns"
16:10	-	16:50		Alice Kügler (University College London), Ines Helm (Stockholm University), Uta Schönberg (University College London and IZA)
				"Displacement Effects in Manufacturing: The Role of Firms"
16:50				Concluding Remarks and Farewell Coffee