Wage Dynamics in the 21st Century

Erik Hurst, Lisa B. Kahn, and Ayşegül Şahin, Organizers

September 12-13, 2024

Skyline Room CDE, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, September 12
12:00 pm
Lunch
Skyline AB Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:00 pm
Matthias Mertens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Diminishing Output Elasticity of Labor
Discussant: Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
2:00 pm
Oren Danieli, Tel-Aviv University

Revisiting U.S. Wage Inequality at the Bottom 50% (slides)
Discussant: Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Michael J. Boehm, TU Dortmund University
Ben S. Etheridge, University of Essex
Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Institute for Fiscal Studies

The Impact of Labour Demand Shocks when Occupational Labour Supplies are Heterogeneous
Discussant: Gizem Koşar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
4:30 pm
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Ananya Kotia, London School of Economics
Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Christian Moser, Columbia University and NBER
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER

Meritocracy across Countries
Discussant: Elena Manresa, New York University
Adjourn and Reception, Skyline AB Room
6:30 pm
Friday, September 13
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Iacopo Morchio, University of Bristol
Christian Moser, Columbia University and NBER

The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
Discussant: Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich
9:30 am
Jaime Arellano-Bover, Yale University
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Salvatore Lattanzio, Bank of Italy
Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Discussant: Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
Break
10:50 am
Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Chen Yeh, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Andrea Atencio De Leon, International Monetary Fund

Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor (slides)
Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch Panel: Recent Trends in the Labor Market from Administrative Data
Karin Kimbrough, LinkedIn
Nela Richardson, ADP
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
1:15 pm
Samuel Dodini, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics

How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
Discussant: Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
2:15 pm
Gustavo De Souza, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Haishi Li, University of Hong Kong

Robots, Tools, and Jobs: Evidence from Brazilian Labor Markets
Discussant: Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
3:15 pm
Adjourn