- 15th joint ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop
Labour market adjustments
Monday, 2 and Tuesday, 3 December 2019
ECB main building, Room C2.06, Frankfurt am Main
The joint ECB/CEPR labour market workshop brings together scholars from academia, the central banking community and international organisations to discuss latest policy-relevant research on the labour market. This year’s focus will be on how technological changes shape labour market outcomes, the role of firm and worker characteristics in determining aggregate fluctuations, and labour mobility.
Programme
- 8:00
- Registration
- 9:00
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Welcome address
Frank Smets, European Central Bank
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Session I – Automation and technological change
Chair: Frank Smets, European Central Bank
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A multisector perspective on wage stagnation
Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics and Centre for Economic Policy Research
Discussant: Zsofia Barany, Sciences Po and Center for Economic and Policy Research
- 10:00
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Future technology hubs or backwater? Lessons on structural change from Germany’s coal regions
Simon Janssen, Institute for Employment Research
Discussant: Ines Helm, Stockholm University
- 11:00
- Coffee
- 11:30
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Keynote speech
Wage equalization and regional misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German provinces
Tito Boeri, Bocconi University and Center for Economic and Policy Research
- 12:30
- Buffet lunch
- 13:45
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Continuation of Session I – Automation and technological change
Chair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank
Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs: A labor market sorting view
Maximilian Mayer, Goethe University Frankfurt
Discussant: Juan Francisco Jimeno, Banco de España
- 14:45
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Session II – Intra-firm dynamics
Chair: Filippos Petroulakis, Bank of Greece
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Insurance between firms: The role of internal labor markets
Giovanni Pica, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Centro Luca D'Agliano, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance and Paolo Baffi Centre
Discussant: Kerstin Holzheu, Sciences Po
- 15:45
- Coffee
- 16:00
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Rent sharing and inclusive growth
Pawel Bukowski, London School of Economics
Discussant: Orhun Sevinc, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
- 17:00
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The long run earnings effects of a credit market disruption
Eliana Viviano, Banca d'Italia
Discussant: Alex Popov, European Central Bank
- 18:00
- End of day 1
- 19:00
- Dinner
- 8:00
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Registration
- 8:30
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Keynote speech
Chair: Ana Lamo, European Central Bank
Technological changes, the labor market and schooling - A general equilibrium model with multidimensional individual skills
Moshe Buchinsky, University of California, Los Angeles
- 9:30
- Coffee
- 10:00
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Session III – Workers and aggregate fluctuations
Chair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank
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Worker churn in the cross section and over time: New evidence from Germany
Felix Wellschmied, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Institute of Labor Economics
Discussant: Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Arizona State University
- 11:00
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Marginal jobs and job surplus: A test of the efficiency of separations
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 12:00
- Buffet lunch
- 13:15
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Session IV – Internal and international mobility
Chair: Francesco Fasani, Queen Mary, University of London and CEPR
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Foreign workers, product quality and trade: Evidence from a natural experiment
Andrea Ariu, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale
Discussant: Rosario Crino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- 14:15
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Tasks, cities and urban wage premia
Anja Grujovic, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
Discussant: Federica Daniele, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- 15:15
- Coffee
- 15:30
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How broadband internet affects labor market matching
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Arizona State University
Discussant: Benedikt Herz, European Commission
- 16:30
- End of workshop
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
Audiovisual notice: Please note that photography and filming activities might take place during the event.
General information
European Central Bank
Main building
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
+49 69 1344 0
Fax: +49 69 1344 6000
[email protected]
Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers, unless indicated otherwise.
English
35 mins presenter, 15 mins discussant, 10 mins discussion
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po and CEPR
Agostino Consolo, European Central Bank
Francesco Fasani, Queen Mary, University of London and CEPR
Ana Lamo, European Central Bank
Filippos Petroulakis, Bank of Greece
Jeanette Cramer
Division Supply Side Labour and Surveillance
European Central Bank
[email protected]