Monday, July 16
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Why Do Spatial Wage Gaps Persist? Evidence from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany

Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
2:00 pm

Agglomeration and Sorting (slides)

Yujiang River Chen, University of Cambridge
Coen N. Teulings, Utrecht University
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union

Christopher House, University of Michigan and NBER
Christian Proebsting, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne
Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER
4:30 pm

Labor Market Flows and Development

Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Jianyu Lu, Central Bank of Chile
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 17
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women's Employment (slides)

Stefania Albanesi, University of Miami and NBER
2:00 pm

The Role in the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath of the Collapse and Restoration of Confidence (slides)

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Myopia and Anchoring

George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
Zhen Huo, Yale University
4:30 pm

Labor Market Search Without Rational Expectations

John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER
Matthew J. Wiswall, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 18
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Learning from Coworkers

Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
2:00 pm

Knowledge Diffusion in the Workplace

Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jeremy Lise, Cornell University
Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms

Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm

The Comparative Statics of Sorting

Axel Anderson, Georgetown University
Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Firm Wages in a Frictional Labor Market

Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
2:00 pm

Wages and Outside Options: A Direct Measure of Worker Bargaining Power

Simon Jaeger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Samuel G. Young, Arizona State University
Josef Zweimueller, University of Zurich
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Nature of Firm Growth

Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Petr Sedlacek, University of Oxford
Vincent Sterk, University College London
4:30 pm

What hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle?

Benjamin Hartung, University of Bonn
Philip Jung, University of Bonn
Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles

Guillaume Vuillemey, HEC Paris
Etienne Wasmer, Sciences Po Paris
9:30 am

Learning, On-the-Job Search and Wage-Tenure Contracts

Kevin Fawcett, University of Toronto
Shouyong Shi, Queen's University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production,and Family Labour Supply

George-Levi Gayle, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Andrew J. Shephard, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm

Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled

Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Soojin Kim, Georgia State University
Serena Rhee, Chung-Ang University
1:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn