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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Firm Heterogeneity and Income Inequality Pre-Conference

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

October 17, 2014

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Participant List

Thursday, October 16

6:30 pm Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

Friday, October 17

8:15 am Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Opening Remarks

9:15 am Erling Barth, University of Oslo and NBER
James Davis, Bureau of the Census
Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Title to be announced

9:45 am Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heekyung Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CEO Pay and Information Technology

10:15 am Break

10:45 am Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Kristin McCue, Bureau of the Census

Holly Monti, University of Texas

Brooks Pierce, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Firm Performance and the Volatility of Worker Earnings

11:15 am John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Henry Hyatt, Bureau of the Census
Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of the Census
The Firm Size-Wage-Productivity Nexus

11:45 am Kevin Murphy, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Topel, University of Chicago and NBER
Title to be announced

12:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm John Abowd, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin McKinney, Bureau of the Census
Nellie Zhao, Cornell University
Analyzing Income Inequality in the U.S. Using Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

1:45 pm Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Firm Heterogeneity and Management

2:15 pm Break

2:30 pm Edward Lazear, Stanford University and NBER
Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher Stanton, University of Utah and NBER
Title to be announced

3:00 pm Wrap-Up

3:15 pm Adjourn