Labor in the New Economy Conference |
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Sponsored by the NBER Conference on Research in Income and Wealth |
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Katharine Abraham, Michael Harper, and James Spletzer, Organizers |
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November 16-17, 2007 |
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Hyatt Regency Hotel |
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Bethesda, |
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PROGRAM |
Friday,
November 16: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Wages, Benefits, and Compensation |
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9:00 am |
What Do We Really
Know About Changes in Wage Inequality? |
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9:45 am |
Recent Trends in
Compensation Inequality |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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10:45 am |
Are the New Jobs
Good Jobs? |
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11:30 am |
New Data for
Answering Old Questions about Employee Stock Options |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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Labor Market Structure |
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1:30 pm |
Adjusted
Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS |
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2:15 pm |
Long-Term Change in Firm Demography and
Labor Market Outcomes: An Exercise in Mimecasting |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:15 pm |
Measuring Tradable
Services and the Task Content of Offshorable Services Jobs |
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4:00 pm |
The Effect of
Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market |
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4:45 pm |
Adjourn |
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5:00 pm |
CRIW Members Meeting |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner for Authors and Discussants, Tragara Restaurant |
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Saturday,
November 17: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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The Employment Relationship |
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9:00 am |
How Much Do People
Really Work in the New Economy? |
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9:45 am |
What Do We Know
About Contracting Out in the |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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10:45 am |
Emerging Labor Market Trends
and Workplace Safety and Health |
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11:30 am |
Lunch |
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Labor Inputs |
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12:30 pm |
Job Loss and the
Decline in Job Security in the United States |
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1:15 pm |
Measuring Labor
Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies |
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2:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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