The Chair of Macroeconomics (Prof. Merkl) and the Chair of Global Governance and International Trade (Prof. Moser), both at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Competence Field Macroeconomics of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) are organising a joint seminar series with topics at the interface of macroeconomics and the labour market.
The seminar typically takes place on Tuesdays at 12 or 2pm CEST – online or on site.
If needed, Zoom login information will be distributed by e-mail. If you are a researcher and you are interested to join the talks, please send an e-mail to macrolabor.seminar@gmail.com.
Preliminary Schedule
16th July 2024, noon
Topic: tba
Nicolas Syrichas (FU Berlin)
2nd July 2024, noon
Topic: tba
Ramona Schmid (Ifo Institute, Munich)
18th June 2024, 2:00 p.m
Topic: “Trade Liberalization and Labor-Market Gains: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data”
Cristina Tello-Trillo (US Census Bureau and University of Maryland)
4th June 2024, noon
Topic: tba
Christos Makridis (WU Vienna)
7th May 2024, 2:00 p.m
Topic: tba
Katherine Stapleton (World Bank)
23rd April 2024, 2:00 p.m.
Topic: “Reevaluating What We Know About Labor Market Transitions and Wage Changes”
Cynthia Doniger (Federal Reserve Board of Governors); joint work with Hie Joo Ahn
Past Events
6th February 2024, 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Topic: The Wage of Temporary Agency Workers
Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po)
30th January 2024, noon
Topic: Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance:
Evidence from Finnish Microdata”
Andrea Ariu (University of Milan)
16th January 2024, 4 until 5:30 p.m. (CEST)
Topic: Wage Setting Protocols and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence
Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (University of California at Santa Cruz)
16th January 2024, noon until 1 p.m.
Thema: The dovish turnaround: Germany’s social benefit reform and job findings
Enzo Weber (IAB)
5th December 2023, 12 noon to 1.30 p.m.
Topic: The Impact of Multinationals Along the Job Ladder.
Doireann Fitzgerald (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
21th November 2023, 2 p.m. (CEST)
Topic: Labor Market Discrimination and the Racial Unemployment Gap: Can Monetary Policy Make a Difference?
Isabel Cairo (Federal Reserve Board)
7th November 2023, noon
Topic: Wage Setting in Times of High and Low Inflation
Isabel Gödl‐Hanisch (LMU Munich)
24th October 2023, 12 to 1.30 p.m.
Topic: The European Unemployment Puzzle: Implications from Population Population Aging (joint work with Krzysztof Makarski and Sylwia Radomska)
Joanna Tyrowicz (University of Warsaw)
18th July 2023, noon
Topic: The Dark Shadow of Benefit Reforms in the Open Economy (joint work with Christian Merkl and Heiko Stüber)
Brigitte Hochmuth (University of Vienna)
Room: E10 (IAB)
4th July 2023, noon
Topic: Labor market beliefs and the gender wage gap
Ana Figueiredo (Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam)
Room: 2.429 (FAU)
20th June 2023, noon
Equity and Efficiency of Childcare Subsidies: A Dynamic Structural Approach (joint work with Dominik Sachs, Fabian Stürmer-Heiber, and Hélène Turon)
David Koll (University Mannheim)
Room: E10 (IAB)
6th June 2023, 12 to 1:30 p.m. (CEST)
EU enlargement and (temporary) migration: Effects on labour market outcomes in Germany (joint work with Luisa Hammer)
Matthias Hertweck (Deutsche Bundesbank)
0.423 (FAU)
23th May 2023, 2 to 3.30 p.m. (CEST)
Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth? (joint work with Alexander Ljungqvist (SSE)
Daniel Bias (Vanderbilt University)
via Zoom
9th May 2023
Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty (joint work Christian Holzner)
Bastian Schulz (Aarhus University)
Room: E10 (IAB)
25th April 2023, 12 to 1.30 p.m. (CEST)
Matching Workers’ Skills and Firms’ Technologies: From Bundling to Unbundling (joint work with Philippe Choné)
Francis Kramarz (CREST)
via Zoom
