Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck

Kathryn L. Shaw, Organizer

November 13-14, 2015

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 13
1
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Erling Barth, Institute for Social Research and NBER
James Davis, Economic Research Service USDA

Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work
2
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau
Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Do Workers Move Up the Firm Productivity Job Ladder?
3
Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau
Holly Monti, U.S. Census Bureau
Brooks Pierce

Firm Performance and the Volatility of Worker Earnings
4
Edward P. Lazear, Stanford University
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot
5
John M. Abowd, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin McKinney, U.S. Census Bureau
Nellie Zhao, Cornell University

Earnings Inequality Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
6
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Heekyung H. Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guillaume St. Jacques

IT and CEO Pay
7
Stefan Bender, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stephanie Wolter, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

Of Managers and Management