SI 2024 The Micro and Macro Perspectives of the Aggregate Labor Market
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 15-18, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 15
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm

Revisiting the Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Jeremy Lise, Cornell University
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

The Potential of Recommender Systems for Directing Job Search: A Large-Scale Experiment (slides)

Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics
Sofia Dromundo, Paris School of Economics
Marc Gurgand, Paris School of Economics
Yagan Hazard, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Thomas Zuber, Collège de France
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power?

Justin Bloesch, Cornell University
Birthe Larsen, Copenhagen Business School
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting

Hanno Foerster, Boston College
Tim Obermeier, University of Leicester
Bastian Schulz, Aarhus University
Alexander G. Paul, Aarhus University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 16
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm

Scaling Up the American Dream: A Dynamic Analysis

Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER
Mark Ponder, NERA Economic Consulting
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms

Ryungha Oh, Northwestern University
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Meritocracy across Countries

Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ananya Kotia, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Christian Moser, Columbia University and NBER
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Assortative Matching and Wages: The Role of Selection

Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 17
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm

Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation

Sadhika Bagga, University of Rochester
Lukas Friedrich Mann, Arizona State University
Ayşegül Şahin, Princeton University and NBER
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Insurance Inside and Outside the Firm

Martin Souchier, University of Pennsylvania
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits

Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Marios Karabarbounis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Etienne Lalé, York University
Lien Ta, Drexel University
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Technological Change and Unions: An Intergenerational Conflict with Aggregate Impact

Leon Huetsch, University of Lausanne
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
Joint morning session with Micro Data and Macro Models
8:30 am

Labor Market Shocks and Monetary Policy

Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Fatih Karahan, Amazon, Inc.
Yusuf Mercan, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Kurt Gerrard T. See, Bank of Canada
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

Optimal Parental Leave Policy Design

Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University
Deniz Sanin, University of South Carolina - Columbia
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Equilibrium Evictions (slides)

Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Andrew Glover, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Michael Nattinger, University of Wisconsin - Madison
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

A Theory of Supply Function Choice and Aggregate Supply

Joel P. Flynn, Yale University and NBER
George Nikolakoudis, Princeton University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30pm

Superstar Teams: The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities

Lukas B. Freund, Boston College
2:20pm
Break
2:30pm

Firm Dynamics and Earnings Risk

Philipp Gruebener, Washington University in St. Louis
Filip Rozsypal, Danmarks Nationalbank
3:20pm
Adjourn