Friday, September 16
9:30 am
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am

The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor (slides)

Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Paulo C. Lins, Clemson University

Discussant:
Michael W. L. Elsby, University of Edinburgh
11:00 am

The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality

Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
Melanie Wallskog, Duke University

Discussant:
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch - Charles A
1:00 pm

Sources of Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Survey and Administrative Data (slides)

John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired

Discussant:
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER
2:00 pm

How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?

Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
Kerstin Holzheu, Sciences Po
Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER
Elena Manresa, New York University
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Discussant:
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market

Sadhika Bagga, University of Rochester

Discussant:
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:30 pm

Long Social Distancing (slides)

Jose Maria Barrero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Reception - Skyline Room
6:30 pm
Dinner - Skyline Room
Saturday, September 17
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks

Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Elena Prager, University of Rochester and NBER
10:30 am

The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments

Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant:
Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
11:30 am
Lunch - Charles A
12:15 pm

Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States (slides)

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service

Discussant:
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:15 pm

Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm
Adjourn