The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to host an international workshop on recent developments in wage determination, distribution, and job skills from 14-15 June.
The traditional human capital model of wage determination fails to explain why wage disparities exist within or between firms, as firms themselves are deemed irrelevant. However, the availability of new data, such as employer-employee matched data sets, makes it possible to better explore issues of wage inequality. Consequently, models examining the sorting of workers across firms with varying productivity levels have gained importance. Our international conference aims to contribute to a better understanding of wage determination, distribution, and job skills.
Our outstanding speakers will address the significant rise in earnings inequality witnessed across numerous countries and the factors contributing to these developments. They will discuss the role of individual determinants of wage inequality, including tenure and job mobility, as well as firm characteristics and labor market institutions, and they will delve into the effects of wage losses following job displacement and the wage elasticity of recruitment.
Date
14.6.2023 - 15.6.2023
Venue
13.06.2023
Conference Dinner (sponsored by LASER)
Gutmann am Dutzendteich, Bayernstraße 150
14.06.2023 – 15.06.2023
Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency
Regensburger Str. 100
90478 Nuremberg
Room E10
Keynote speakers
- Christian Dustmann (University College London)
Conference fee and traveling Costs
There will be no participation fee. Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses.
Programme
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
- 7:00 p.m. Conference Dinner (sponsored by LASER)
Gutmann am Dutzendteich, Bayernstraße 150
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
- 09:30 a.m. Registration
- 10:00 a.m. Welcome Address
- Bernd Fitzenberger, Director of the IAB
- 10:15 a.m. Using Distribution Regression Difference-in-Differences to Evaluate the Effects of a Minimum Wage Introduction on the Distribution of Hourly Wages and Hours Worked
- Martin Biewen, University of Tübingen
- 11:30 p.m. Lunch break
- 1:00 p.m. Job Polarisation
- Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Humboldt University Berlin and IAB
- 2:15 p.m. Explaining Wage Losses After Job Displacement: Employer Size and Lost Firm Rents
- Steffen Müller, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
- 3:30 p.m. Coffee break
- 4:00 p.m. Bargaining in the Labor Market
- Sydnee Caldwell, University of California (Berkeley)
- 5:15 p.m. End of the first workshop day
- 7:00 p.m. Conference Dinner
La Commedia Pizzeria, Holzstr 4
Thursday, 15 June 2023
- 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE: Knowledge Spillover and Individual Careers
- Christian Dustmann, University College London (UCL) and IAB
- 10:45 a.m. Coffee break / Group Photo
- 11:15 a.m. Firms’ margins of adjustment to wage growth: The case of Italian collective bargaining
- Bernardo Fanfani, University of Turin
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch break
- 1:30 p.m. Small-scale Geodata and Inequality: Descriptive Evidence and Potentials for Estimating Income Inequality Effects
- Kerstin Ostermann, Katja Wolf, IAB
- 2:00 p.m. The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment
- Michael Oberfichtner, IAB and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 3:15 p.m. End of the second workshop day
Registration
Interested researchers can register until 7.6.2023 here: https://eveeno.com/recentdevelopments
Further information
The workshop is generously supported by funding of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.