SI 2023 The Micro and Macro Perspectives of the Aggregate Labor Market
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 17-20, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 17
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells (slides)

Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Firm Heterogeneity and Racial Labor Market Disparities

Caitlin Hegarty, Williams College
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

Sarah Auster, University of Bonn
Piero Gottardi, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Ronald Wolthoff, University of Toronto
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Composite Sorting

Job Boerma, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Ruodu Wang, University of Waterloo
Zhenyuan Zhang, Stanford University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 18
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Updating about Yourself by Learning about the Market: The Dynamics of Beliefs and Expectations in Job Search

Qiwei He, The University of Edinburgh
Philipp Kircher, Cornell University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

The Impact of Multinationals Along the Job Ladder (slides)

Ragnhild Balsvik, Institute of Marine Research
Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Stefanie Haller, University College Dublin
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Price Setting with Customer Capital: Sales, Teasers, and Rigidity

Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor (slides)

Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Paulo Lins, Clemson University
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Minimum Wages and Labor Markets in the Twin Cities (slides)

Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jeremy Lise, Cornell University
Anusha Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Bonus Question: Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Fluctuations?

Meghana Gaur, Princeton University
John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Vacancies and Hiring through Different Recruiting Channels (slides)

Jesper Bagger, The University of Edinburgh
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Micro Data and Macro Models
8:30 am

Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices

Lukas Nord, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

Job Search, Wages, and Inflation (slides)

Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER
Jane M. Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes

Hanno Foerster, Boston College
Robert Ulbricht, Boston College
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

Subjective Earnings Risk

Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Eungik Lee, New York University
Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Until the IRS Do Us Part: (Optimal) Taxation of Families

Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Serhiy Stepanchuk, University of Southampton
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty

Christian Holzner, University of Munich
Bastian Schulz, Aarhus University
3:20 pm
Adjourn