Friday | Conference Activities • 1/6/2017 |
8 - 10 am | |
1.1 Employment Goals and Publicly Financed Projects (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: Thomas Boston, Georgia Institute of Technology—Minority Businesses and Their Relationship with Publicly Financed Projects
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University—Racial and Gender Diversity in State Departments of Transportation | |
1.2 Dynamics of Low-wage Labor Markets: Implication for Minimum Wage Policy (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Dale Belman, Michigan State University and Paul Wolfson, Dartmouth College—Low-wage Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence from the SIPP
David Cooper, Economic Policy Institute—Low-wage Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence from Workers and Employers
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland
M. Anne Visser, University of California, Davis | |
10:15 ‑ 12:15 pm | |
2.1 Financial Markets and Labor Markets (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Christian E. Weller and Michele Tolson, University of Massachusetts-Boston—Gender, Economic and Financial Risks, and Wealth Inequality
Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles; Antonio Falato and Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board—Bank Credit, Jobs, and Productivity Over the Business Cycle
Oliver Denk, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)—Financial Exceptionalism? Employment, Earnings, and Inequality
Thibault Darcillon, University of Paris Vincennes—Labor and Financial Markets Interactions and Macroeconomic Performances: A Comparison between France and Germany
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University | |
2.2 Labor Market Effects of the Affordable Care Act (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: Thomas C. Buchmueller and Helen Levy, University of Michigan and Sayeh Nikpay, Vanderbilt University—Health Reform and Retirement
Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago; Bowen Garrett, Urban Institute; Anuj Gangopadhyaya and Caitlyn Fleming, University of Illinois at Chicago—Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply
Marcus Dillender, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt University; and Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Part-time Employment: Early Evidence
William E. Even, Miami University and David Macpherson, Trinity University—The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University | |
12:30 ‑ 2:15 pm | |
3.1 Inequality: Rents, Value Extraction, and Power (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research—The Political Economy of Combatting Rent-Based Inequality
William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts-Lowell—Shareholder-Value Ideology and Marketized Employment Relations as Sources of Increasing Income Inequality
Kim Weeden, Cornell University—Can Asymmetric Rent Creation and Destruction Account for the Takeoff in Income Inequality?
Benjamin Page, Northwestern University | |
3.2 Getting Ahead, Getting Stuck: African-Americans in Jobs and Schools (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Valerie Wilson, Economic Policy Institute and William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University—Black-White Wage Gaps in the Age of Growing Inequality, 1979-2014
Adam C. Wright, Western Washington University—Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Disruptive Behavior: The Effect of Racial Congruence and Consequences for School Suspension
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Middlebury College and Jordan Glatt, Deloitte Consulting Services—The Scarring Effect of Youth Unemployment: Help Not Wanted?
Dania Francis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 pm | |
4.1 Dimensions of Inequality in the United States (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Katie Jajtner and Sophie Mitra, Fordham University—Trends in Income Inequality and Disability
Randy Albelda and Michael Carr, University of Massachusetts-Boston—One Step Forward, One Step Back? Labor Supply Effects of the Minimum Wage on Single Parents with Public Supports
Liam C. Malloy, University of Rhode Island and Bret Anderson, Southern Oregon University—Bargaining Power and Inequality in U.S. States with Globally Exposed Economies
Paul Willman, London School of Economics and Political Science—Executive Pay and Intra-Firm Inequality
Oliver Denk, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | |
4.2 Towards a Secure Retirement: Challenges and Solutions (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: Shilpa Grover and Laura Hoffrey, U.S. Government Accountability Office—Will I Just Have to Work Forever? Current Retirement Savings of Older Americans and Their Consequences
Jennifer Erin Brown, National Institute of Retirement Security—Shortchanged in Retirement: Continuing Challenges to Women's Financial Future
Sarah Spell, Pew Charitable Trusts—Employer and Employee Reactions to State-Level Retirement Savings Initiatives for Private Sector Workers
Heather Grob, Saint Martin's University
Michele Varnhagen, AARP | |
4:45 ‑ 5:45 pm | |
6 ‑ 7 pm | Co-Chairs: Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Saturday | Conference Activities • 1/7/2016 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
5.1 Rethinking Pension Fund Activism for Employment Equity and Capital Stewardship (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Jayne Zanglein, Western Carolina University—Pension Fund Activism: Can Labor Maintain Its Momentum in Light of Declining Defined Benefit Funds?
Thomas Herndon, Loyola Marymount University—Lessons for Pension Fund Activism from the Swedish Nationalization Experiment of the 1970's
Harold Pollack, University of Chicago | |
5.2 Who Cares About Economic Inequality in the United States? Critical Reflections on the Compatibility of Economic Inequality and Growth (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Darrick Hamilton, The New School for Social Research—Are We In It Together: Racial Stratification and the U.S. Economy
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University | |
10:15 ‑ 12:15 pm | |
6.1 Firms and Inequality (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Ian M. Schmutte, University of Georgia and Kurt Lavetti, Ohio State University—Estimating Compensating Wage Differentials with Endogenous Job Mobility
James R. Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau and John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland—Between-Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Role of Productivity Dispersion and the Changing Composition of Firms and Workers
Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University—The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
Jae Song, U.S. Social Security Administration; David J. Price, Stanford University; Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota; Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University; and Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles—Firming Up Inequality
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley | |
6.2 Union Effects on Wages and the Workplace (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: John Addison, University of South Carolina; Pedro Portugal and Hugo Vilares, Bank of Portugal—Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
Barry Hirsch and Abhir Kulkarni, Georgia State University—Revisiting Union Wage Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys
Jake Rosenfeld, Washington University of St. Louis; Jennifer Laird and Patrick Denice, University of Washington—Union Decline and the Wages of Nonunion Workers
Henry Farber, Princeton University
John W. Budd, University of Minnesota | |
12:30 ‑ 2:15 pm | LERA Plenary Roundtable: Advice to the Incoming Administration on Labor and Employment Policy (Workshop)—Crystal B
Aparna Mathur, American Enterprise Institute
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University
Heather Boushey, Washington Center for Equitable Growth |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 pm | |
8.1 Does Lowering Labor Market Standards Create Jobs? (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Michael Brooks, Newcastle University—The U.K.'s Employment Regulation - Labour Productivity Conundrum
Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings, University of Sheffield—Varieties of Labour Market Liberalisation in the EU: Causes, Consequences and Implications for the Future
Martin Myant, European Trade Union Institute—New Work Assessing the Efficacy of the OECD Employment Protection Index: An Overview
Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics and Political Science—Crisis, Adjustment and Resilience in the Greek Labour Market: An Unemployment Decomposition Approach | |
8.2 Firms And Wages (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: David Deming, Harvard University and Lisa Kahn, Yale University—Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Demands
Ian M. Schmutte and Chris Cornwell, University of Georgia and Daniela Scur, University of Oxford—Compensation Practices, Worker Mobility, and Wage Dispersion: Evidence from Brazilian Employer-Employee Matched Data
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland; Henry R. Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer, U.S. Census Bureau—Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage
Lisa Kahn, Yale University | |
Sunday | Conference Activities • 1/8/2017 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
9.1 Training and Skill Acquisition on the Job (Symposium)—Gold Coast
Presenters: Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Incidence and Predictors of Training Across Three Technical Occupations
Colleen F. Manchester, University of Minnesota and Qianyun Xie, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences—Learning Through the Lens of Your Job: Acquisition of Non-Transferable Human Capital by Employees
Craig Olson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Deena Ackerman, U.S. Department of the Treasury—High School Inputs and Labor Market Outcomes over a Career: New Data and Estimates from Wisconsin
Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
9.2 The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws (Symposium)—Columbian
Presenters: Kevin Duncan, Colorado State University-Pueblo—Prevailing Wage Regulations, Contractor Bid Behavior, and School Construction Costs in Maryland: Evidence from Side-By-Side Bids.
Peter Philips and David Blatter, University of Utah—Two Roads Diverge: Hidden Costs of the Low Wage Approach to Construction
Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Frank Manzo, Illinois Economic Policy Institute—The Education and Economic Impacts of Apprenticeship Programs in Illinois
Scott Littlehale, Smart Cities Prevail—The Fissured Construction Jobsite: Evaluating Labor Standards Regimes through an Organizational Resource Dependence Lens
Dale Belman, Michigan State University |