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Identifying Worker and Firm Quality

Conferences and Workshops

Linked employer-employee data offer a wide range of possibilities for researchers. For example, this type of data is used to understand the role of worker and firm quality in the development of wage inequality, as for example in Card, Heining, Kline (2013). A widely used approach to identify worker and firm quality was developed by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) who decomposed earnings in a worker-specific component, a firm-specific component and an error term in a two-way fixed effects model. Since then, many researchers have used the AKM model to study worker and firm heterogeneity in wages, as well as the importance of labour market sorting. While the model continues to be heavily used until today, recent developments discuss potential biases and propose corrections (for example Abowd et al, 2004; Andrews et al, 2008, 2012; Kline, Saggio, Sølvsten 2020; Bonhomme et al, 2023). The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working with these models to present and discuss current work. Possible topics for the workshop are:

  • How important are worker and firm heterogeneity for the variation of wages?
  • How do wage premia differ for worker subgroups?
  • How persistent are wage premia?
  • How important is worker-firm sorting?
  • Is there assortative matching in the labour market?
  • Are there persistent penalties to working in low-quality firms?

Date

27.11.2023 - 28.11.2023

Venue

Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency
Regensburger Str. 100
90478 Nuremberg
Room E10

Keynote speakers

  • Stéphane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)
  • Fabien Postel-Vinay (University College London)

Organisation

  • Luisa Braunschweig (IAB)
  • Mara Buhmann (IAB)
  • Duncan Roth (IAB)

Conference fee and traveling Costs

There will be no conference fee. Participants are expected to cover their travel costs.

Programme

Monday, 27 November

  • 12:00-12:45 – Lunch (optional)
    IAB canteen
  • 12:45-13:00 – Registration and Welcoming
  • 13:00-14:00 – Keynote I
    Fabien Postel-Vinay
  • 14:00-14:15 – Short break
  • 14:15-15:15 – Session 1
  • Outside options and the sharing of match-specific rents
    Oskar Nordström Skans
  • The scarring effects of firm shutdowns
    Johannes Seebauer
  • 15:15-15:45 – Coffee break
  • 15:45-16:45 – Session 2
  • Firm dynamics with labor market sorting
    Andreas Gulyas
  • Worker-firm matching over the career
    Luisa Braunschweig
  • 16:45-17:00 – Short break
  • 17:00-18:00 – Session 3
  • The role of flexible wage components in gender wage differences
    Balázs Reizer
  • Show me the amenity: are higher paying firms better all around?
    Jason Sockin
  • 19:30 – Conference dinner
    Ramencado (Färberstraße 42, 90402 Nürnberg)

Tuesday, 28 November

  • 09:00-09:15 – Welcoming by Bernd Fitzenberger
  • 09:15-10:30 – Session 4
  • From bundling to unbundling: A new perspective on AKM
    Philippe Choné
  • Quantifying the role of firms in intergenerational mobility
    Tom Zohar
  • 10:30-11:00 – Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:00 – Session 5
  • Understanding the reallocation of displaced workers to firms
    Clément Magouyres
  • Employment in low-wage firms: the scarring effect on worker’s career
    Annaig Morin
  • 12:00-12:15 – Short break
  • 12:15-13:15 – Keynote II
    Stéphane Bonhomme
  • 13:30 – Lunch (optional)
    Pizzeria Al Parco

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