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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Card, Organizer

February 21, 2014

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Yellen Conference Room, 1^st Floor
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA

PROGRAM

Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30 pm	Perbacco Ristorante & Bar Barbaresco Room 230 California Street San Francisco, CA
Friday, February 21, 2014
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz and Arnaud Maurel, Duke University and NBER Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Henry Farber, Princeton University and NBER Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Ashwini Agrawal and Prasanna Tambe, New York University Private Equity, Technological Investment, and Labor Outcomes
12:00 pm	Lunch Market Street Dining Room, 4^th Floor
1:10 pm	Michael Elsby, University of Edinburgh Donggyum Shin, Kyung Hee University Gary Solon, Michigan State University and NBER Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession
2:00 pm	Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER Consumption Network Effects
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Stephen Burks, University of Minnesota Bo Cowgill, University of California at Berkeley Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto Michael Housman, Evolv, Inc The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks
4:00 pm	Robert Valletta , Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses Under Varying Labor Market States
4:50 pm	Adjourn