Wage Dynamics in the 21st Century

Erik Hurst and Lisa B. Kahn, Organizers

September 16-17, 2022

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

Conference Code of Conduct

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

The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor (slides)
Discussant: Michael W. L. Elsby, The University of Edinburgh
11:00 am

The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality
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)
Discussant: Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER
2:00 pm

How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?
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
Discussant: Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:30 pm

Long Social Distancing (slides)
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
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
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)
Discussant: Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:15 pm

Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
Discussant: Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm
Adjourn