Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
November 18, 2022
SIEPR in Stanford, CA and on Zoom

Friday, November 18

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

How Hybrid Working from Home Works Out

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Ruobing Han, Stanford University
James Liang, Peking University

Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

10:00 am

The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory

Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University
Peter Skogman Thoursie, Stockholm University

Discussant:
Heather Sarsons, University of Chicago and NBER

10:50 am

Break

11:10 am

How Worker Productivity and Wages Grow with Tenure and Experience: The Firm Perspective

Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Minjoon Lee, Carleton University
Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen
Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussant:
Joseph Altonji, Yale University and NBER

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations

Costas Cavounidis, University of Warwick
Qingyuan Chai, Boston University
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
Raghav Malhotra, University of Leicester

Discussant:
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER

2:00 pm

Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks

Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER
Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Discussant:
Joan Monras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2:50 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector (slides)

Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
François Gerard, University College London
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University and NBER
Claire Montialoux, Sciences Po

Discussant:
Charles C. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER

4:00 pm

Adjourn