SI 2019 Personnel Economics
Organized by Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw
July 24-25, 2019

Wednesday, July 24

Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in the Ballroom

1:15 pm

Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals

Jonas Hjort, University College London
Xuan Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Heather Sarsons, University of Chicago and NBER

2:00 pm

What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

2:45 pm

Break

3:05 pm

Voice at Work

Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

3:50 pm

Workplace Knowledge Flows

Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, Northeastern University
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

4:35 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 25

8:50 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:20 am

Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-provided Incentives

Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Complements or Substitutes? Firm Level Management of Labor and Technology (slides)

Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Robert Seamans, New York University
Raphael Martins, New York University

11:35 am

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Commuting, Worker Performance and Retention: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China

Yao Lu, Tsinghua University
Xinzheng Shi, Tsinghua University
Jagadeesh Sivadasan, University of Michigan
Zhufeng Xu, Central University of Finance and Economics

1:40 pm

Break

1:50 pm

Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation

Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University

2:40 pm

Adjourn