The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to host a workshop on imperfect competition in the labor market from 26-27 May. Topics that will be covered at the workshop are:
- Models of monopsonistic and oligopsonistic competition and their empirical assessment
- Quantifying the elasticities of labor supply, recruits and separations to the firm
- The role of firms in wage-setting
- Outside options and wages
- Employment concentration and wages
- Rent sharing
- Policies that may remedy imperfect competition, e.g. minimum wage and collective bargaining
Date
26.5.2023 - 27.5.2023
Venue
26.05.2023:
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Regensburger Straße 104, Nuremberg
Germany
27.05.2023:
Ramada by Wyndham Nuernberg Parkhotel
Münchener Str. 25, 90478 Nuremberg
Germany
Keynote speakers
- David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
- Alan Manning (London School of Economics)
Scientific committee
- Martin Friedrich (IAB)
- Ines Helm (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
- Elke Jahn (IAB & University of Bayreuth)
- Michael Oberfichtner (IAB)
- Uta Schönberg (University College London & IAB)
- Todd Sorensen (University of Nevada, Reno & University of California, Merced)
Conference fee and traveling Costs
There will be no fee for presenters of accepted papers. Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses.
Programme
Friday, 26 May, Location: IAB
- 9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee
- 9:30 a.m. Welcome address
- Bernd Fitzenberger (Institute for Employment Research)
- 9:45 a.m. Keynote Lecture I:
- David Card (University of California at Berkeley)
- 10:45 a.m. Coffee break
- 11:00 a.m. Session 1
- When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power? New vs. Classical Monopsony
Justin Bloesch (Columbia Business School) - The Measure of Monopsony: The Labour Supply Elasticity to the Firm and its
Constituents
Nikhil Datta (University of Warwick)
- When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power? New vs. Classical Monopsony
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch
- 1:10 p.m. Session 2
- Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
Sabien Dobbelaere (Vrije University Amsterdam) - Collective Bargaining and Spillovers
Ihsaan Bassier (London School of Economics)
- Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
- 2:20 p.m. Short break
- 2:30 p.m. Poster Session & Coffee
- Monopsony in the High-Skilled Migrant Labor Market – Evidence from H-1B
Petition Data
Alison (Xinyue) Pei (Duke University) - Firm Concentration & Endogenous Amenity Provision: The Case of Schedule
Felxible Work Arrangements
Maria Balgova (IZA Institute of Labor Economics) - Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration
Erick Baumgartner (Bocconi University) - Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral
Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir (IZA Institute of Labor Economics) - The Effects of Pay Decentralisation on Teachers’ Pay and Teacher Retention
Hedvig Horvath (University College London) - Identifying rent-sharing using firms’ energy input mix
Steffen Müller (IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research) - Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor Markets
Martin Popp (Institute for Employment Research)
- Monopsony in the High-Skilled Migrant Labor Market – Evidence from H-1B
- 3:50 p.m. Short break
- 4:00 p.m. Session 4
- Firm-level Technological Change and Skill Demand
Atilla Lindner (University College London) - Firm Expansion in Imperfect Labor Markets
Martin Friedrich (Institute for Employment Research)
- Firm-level Technological Change and Skill Demand
- 5:10 p.m. End of first workshop day
- 7:00 p.m. Conference dinner: Restaurant Bruderherz, Luitpoldstr. 15, 90492 Nürnberg
Saturday, 27 May, Location: Ramada Hotel
- 9:30 a.m. Session 5
- Recruitment elasticity
Michael Oberfichtner (Institute for Employment Research) - Monopsony and Gender
Garima Sharma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Recruitment elasticity
- 10:40 a.m. Coffee break
- 11:00 a.m. Session 6
- Wage dispersion, involuntary unemployment and minimum wages in the presence of market power
Ellen Muir (Harvard University) - An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition
Ellena Mattana (Aarhus University)
- Wage dispersion, involuntary unemployment and minimum wages in the presence of market power
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch
- 1:00 p.m. Session 2
- Company wage policy in a low-wage labor market
Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University) - The Effect of Labor Market Competition on Firms, Workers, and Communities
Alexander Willen (Norwegian School of Economics)
- Company wage policy in a low-wage labor market
- 2:10 p.m. Short break
- 2:30 p.m. Keynote Lecture II:
- Alan Manning (London School of Economics)
- 3:30 p.m. Coffee and Farewell
Further information
The workshop is generously supported by funding of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Review
Video statements:
- Professor Alan Manning speaks about the market power of employers, the basic idea of imperfect competition in the labour market, minimum wage as an application of this idea, and about his research connections to the IAB.
To watch the video, please go to YouTube - Nobel Prize Winner David Card speaks about imperfect competition in the labour market, his research on minimum wage, and about his connections to the IAB.
To watch the video, please go to: YouTube
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