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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

Labor Studies Workshop

David Card, Organizer

July 20 - 23, 2009

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Ballroom A, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 20:
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries, Ballroom B, West Tower
8:45 am	ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Real Wage Inequality
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	ERIK LINDQVIST, IFN, Stockholm
	The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and NonCognitive Skills: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
	(Joint with Roine Vestman)
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER
	Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004
	(Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester)
12:15 pm	Lunch, Ballroom B, West Tower
1:15 pm	ALBRECHT GLITZ, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	Job Search Networks and Ethnic Segregation in the Workplace
	(Joint with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schonberg)
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	BRYAN GRAHAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Measuring the average outcome and inequality effects of segregation in the presence of social spillovers
	(Joint with Guido Imbens and Geert Ridder)
3:30 pm	DAVID NEUMARK, UC, Irvine and NBER
	Neighbors and CoWorkers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks
	(Joint with Judy Hellerstein)
4:30 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 21:
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	STEFANO DELLA VIGNA, UC, Berkeley and NBER Testing for Altruism and Social Preferences in Charitable Giving
	(Joint with John List and Ulrike Malmendier)
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	The Effect of Adjustment Costs and Institutional Constraints on Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Denmark
	(Joint with John Friedman, Tore Olsen, and Luigi Pistaferri)
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
	Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks
	(Joint with Daron Acemoglu and Matthew Notowidigdo)
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	YONA RUBINSTEIN, Brown University
	Pride and Prejudice Evidence from the Promised Land
	(Dror Brenner)
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	GARY SOLON, Michigan State University and NBER
	Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle
	(Joint with Pedro Martins and Jonathan Thomas)
3:30 pm	MICHAEL ELSBY, University of Michigan and NBER
	Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment
	(Joint with Matthew Shapiro)
4:30 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:
	ALL DAY JOINT SESSION WITH THE EDUCATION GROUP
	Education Program
6:00 pm	Dinner in honor of Richard Freeman
	Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 23:
	(please note the Personnel Economics Workshop begins today as well)
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER
	Performance Pay, Wage Flexibility, and Hours of Work
	(Daniel Parent and Bentley Macleod)
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics
	Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology
	(Joint with Mirko Draca and Nicholas Bloom)
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	DANIELE PASSERMAN, Boston University and NBER
	Gender Interactions in Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
	(Joint with Stefano Gagliarduuci)
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	PATRICIA CORTES, University of Chicago
	Outsourcing Household Production: Foreign Domestic Helpers and Native Labor Supply in Hong Kong
	(Joint with Jessica Pan)
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	JOHANNES SCHMIEDER, Columbia University
	Labor Costs and the Evolution of New Establishments
3:30 pm	LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles
	Europe’s tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration
	(Ran Abramitzky and Katherin Eriksson)
4:30 pm	Adjourn

FRIDAY, JULY 24: Concurrent methods lectures and continuation of Labor (joint with Personnel)

9:00 am to 5:00 Methods Lectures: Introduction to Field Experiments

Program to be announced

ALSO

JOINT SESSION WITH PERSONNEL ECONOMICS (Personnel starts Thursday)

8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	ANDREA ICHINO, University of Bologna
	A Theory of Overwhelm with an Application to the Productivity of Italian Judges
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	FRANCOIS RYCX, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
	Inter-industry Wage Differentials: How much Does Rent Sharing Matter?
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	CANICE PRENDERGAST, University of Chicago
	Contracts and Conflict in Organizations
12:15 pm	Lunch

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