SI 2023 The Micro and Macro Perspectives of the Aggregate Labor Market

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 17-20, 2023

Longfellow Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 17
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER

Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells (slides)
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Caitlin Hegarty, Williams College

Firm Heterogeneity and Racial Labor Market Disparities
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Sarah Auster, University of Bonn
Piero Gottardi, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Ronald Wolthoff, University of Toronto

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Job Boerma, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Ruodu Wang, University of Waterloo
Zhenyuan Zhang, Stanford University

Composite Sorting
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 18
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Qiwei He, University of Edinburgh
Philipp Kircher, Cornell University and NBER

Updating about Yourself by Learning about the Market: The Dynamics of Beliefs and Expectations in Job Search
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics

The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Ragnhild Balsvik, Institute of Marine Research
Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Stefanie Haller, University College Dublin

The Impact of Multinationals Along the Job Ladder (slides)
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Price Setting with Customer Capital: Sales, Teasers, and Rigidity
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Paulo Lins, Clemson University

The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor (slides)
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jeremy Lise, Cornell University
Anusha Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minimum Wages and Labor Markets in the Twin Cities (slides)
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Meghana Gaur, Princeton University
John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University

Bonus Question: Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Fluctuations?
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Jesper Bagger, University of Edinburgh
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London

Vacancies and Hiring through Different Recruiting Channels (slides)
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Micro Data and Macro Models
8:30 am
Lukas Nord, University of Pennsylvania

Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER
Jane M. Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame

Job Search, Wages, and Inflation (slides)
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Hanno Foerster, Boston College
Robert Ulbricht, Boston College

The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
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

Subjective Earnings Risk
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Serhiy Stepanchuk, University of Southampton

Until the IRS Do Us Part: (Optimal) Taxation of Families
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Christian Holzner, University of Munich
Bastian Schulz, Aarhus University

Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty
3:20 pm
Adjourn