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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
The Labor Market in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Alexandre Mas and David Card, Organizers Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
May 17 and 18, 2013
NBER
Feldstein Conference Room – 2^nd Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
Friday, May 17:
7:45 am	Shuttle vans (2) depart from the hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Introduction
8:40 am	Joseph G. Altonji and Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER Jamin D. Speer, Yale University Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success
	Discussant: Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
9:40 am	Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Disability Insurance and the Business Cycle?
	Discussant: Mark Duggan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER Chris Stanton, University of Utah Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions
	Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol Did the Job Ladder Fail after the Great Recession?
	Discussant: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin and NBER
2:00 pm	Marianne Bitler, University of California at Irvine and NBER Hilary Hoynes, University of California at Davis and NBER The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession
	Discussant: Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Kory Kroft, University of Toronto Fabian Lange, McGill University Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Employment
	Discussant: Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics
4:20 pm	Florian Hoffmann, University of British Columbia Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
	Discussant: David Dorn, CEMFI
5:20 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm 6:00 pm	Shuttle vans (2) depart from NBER for the hotel Shuttle van (1) departs from NBER for the hotel
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, May 18:
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle vans (2) depart from hotel for the NBER Shuttle van (1) departs from the hotel to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Erling Barth, University of Oslo and NBER Jim Davis, Bureau of the Census Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER Dispersion of Employment Growth and Wages among Establishments in Recession And Recovery
	Discussant: Johannes Schmieder, Boston University and NBER
9:30 am	Lucia Foster and Cheryl Grim, Bureau of the Census John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not?
	Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER David A. Green, University of British Columbia Benjamin M. Sand, Copenhagen Business School The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill
	Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Daron Acemoglu and David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Dorn, CEMFI Gordon Hanson, University of California at San Diego and NBER Brendan Price, Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
	Discussant: Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm	Mike Elsby, University of Edinburgh Donggyun Shin, Kyung Hee University Gary Solon, Michigan State University and NBER Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession
	Discussant: Henry Farber, Princeton University and NBER
3:00 pm	Till Von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER The Effect of the Great Recession on Older Workers
	Discussant: Leora Friedberg, University of Virginia
4:00 pm	Adjourn