- 15th joint ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop
Labour market adjustments
Monday, 2 and Tuesday, 3 December 2019
 ECB main building, Room C2.06, Frankfurt am Main
The joint ECB/CEPR labour market workshop brings together scholars from academia, the central banking community and international organisations to discuss latest policy-relevant research on the labour market. This year’s focus will be on how technological changes shape labour market outcomes, the role of firm and worker characteristics in determining aggregate fluctuations, and labour mobility.
Programme
- 8:00
- Registration
- 9:00
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   Welcome addressFrank Smets, European Central Bank 
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   Session I – Automation and technological changeChair: Frank Smets, European Central Bank 
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   A multisector perspective on wage stagnationRachel Ngai, London School of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics and Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussant: Zsofia Barany, Sciences Po and Center for Economic and Policy Research 
- 10:00
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   Future technology hubs or backwater? Lessons on structural change from Germany’s coal regionsSimon Janssen, Institute for Employment Research Discussant: Ines Helm, Stockholm University 
- 11:00
- Coffee
- 11:30
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   Keynote speechWage equalization and regional misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German provincesTito Boeri, Bocconi University and Center for Economic and Policy Research 
- 12:30
- Buffet lunch
- 13:45
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   Continuation of Session I – Automation and technological changeChair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs: A labor market sorting viewMaximilian Mayer, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussant: Juan Francisco Jimeno, Banco de España 
- 14:45
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   Session II – Intra-firm dynamicsChair: Filippos Petroulakis, Bank of Greece 
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   Insurance between firms: The role of internal labor marketsGiovanni Pica, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Centro Luca D'Agliano, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance and Paolo Baffi Centre Discussant: Kerstin Holzheu, Sciences Po 
- 15:45
- Coffee
- 16:00
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   Rent sharing and inclusive growthPawel Bukowski, London School of Economics Discussant: Orhun Sevinc, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey 
- 17:00
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   The long run earnings effects of a credit market disruptionEliana Viviano, Banca d'Italia Discussant: Alex Popov, European Central Bank 
- 18:00
- End of day 1
- 19:00
- Dinner
- 8:00
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   Registration 
- 8:30
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   Keynote speechChair: Ana Lamo, European Central Bank Technological changes, the labor market and schooling - A general equilibrium model with multidimensional individual skillsMoshe Buchinsky, University of California, Los Angeles 
- 9:30
- Coffee
- 10:00
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   Session III – Workers and aggregate fluctuationsChair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank 
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   Worker churn in the cross section and over time: New evidence from GermanyFelix Wellschmied, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Institute of Labor Economics Discussant: Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Arizona State University 
- 11:00
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   Marginal jobs and job surplus: A test of the efficiency of separationsBenjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt 
- 12:00
- Buffet lunch
- 13:15
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   Session IV – Internal and international mobilityChair: Francesco Fasani, Queen Mary, University of London and CEPR 
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   Foreign workers, product quality and trade: Evidence from a natural experimentAndrea Ariu, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale Discussant: Rosario Crino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 
- 14:15
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   Tasks, cities and urban wage premiaAnja Grujovic, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros Discussant: Federica Daniele, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 
- 15:15
- Coffee
- 15:30
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   How broadband internet affects labor market matchingAndreas Ravndal Kostøl, Arizona State University Discussant: Benedikt Herz, European Commission 
- 16:30
- End of workshop
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
Audiovisual notice: Please note that photography and filming activities might take place during the event.
General information
 European Central Bank 
 Main building
 Sonnemannstrasse 20 
 60314 Frankfurt am Main
 +49 69 1344 0 
 Fax: +49 69 1344 6000 
 info@ecb.europa.eu 
Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers, unless indicated otherwise.
English
35 mins presenter, 15 mins discussant, 10 mins discussion
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po and CEPR
 Agostino Consolo, European Central Bank
 Francesco Fasani, Queen Mary, University of London and CEPR
 Ana Lamo, European Central Bank
 Filippos Petroulakis, Bank of Greece
Jeanette Cramer
 Division Supply Side Labour and Surveillance
 European Central Bank 
Labour.Market.Workshop@ecb.europa.eu