IZA Workshop: The Role of Search and Matching in Macroeconomics: A Retrospective

  • October 2023

    IZA/FCDO G²LM|LIC - Programme on Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries

    Online

    The IZA/FCDO Programme on Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) marks the extension of the successful IZA/DFID cooperation, which started as the Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (GLM|LIC) programme in 2011. The extension aims at building a significant new body of evidence on gender, growth, and labour markets to help shape gender and labour market policies in low-income countries. Collaboration with researchers from low-income countries is strongly encouraged.

    18th IZA & 5th IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation

    Paris, Palaiseau

    The 18th IZA & 5th IZA/CREST Conference will be on the topic of Labor Market Policy Evaluation. This conference is an initiative of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn in cooperation with CREST. The Program Committee invites submissions for about 12 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. Papers that include innovative approaches or methodological contributions are of particular interest.

    IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education

    Bonn, Germany

    The 7th IZA Workshop on the Economics of Education will be helf on October 19 – 20, 2023, in person at IZA Bonn, Germany. The conference will combine invited presentations with an additional poster session aimed at local researchers. Presentations and keynote are available via Zoom for an external audience.

    Labor Markets and Innovation during Times of War and Reconstruction

    Online

    The Russian aggression against Ukraine has brought incredible destruction in Ukraine and suffering for the Ukrainian population. In the first two months after February 24th, 2022, economic activities came to a standstill for most Ukrainian workers and firms. However, as time passed, the Ukrainian population has shown its resilience and tremendous courage as economic activity slowly but steadily recovered. Like in many prior conflicts, labor markets and economic production have continued to exist in Ukraine.

  • December 2023

    G²LM|LIC & BREAD Conference on Development Economics

    Nairobi, Kenya

    The IZA/FCDO Gender, Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries Programme (G²LM|LIC) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are pleased to announce a joint Conference on Development Economics .The conference will consist of presentations of advanced stage research by senior or junior researchers, and presentations of early stage research by junior researchers.

IZA Workshop: The Role of Search and Matching in Macroeconomics: A Retrospective
November 18, 2021 - November 19, 2021
Keynote Speakers

Robert E. Hall (Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University)
Steven J. Davis (William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution)

All times stated in CET (Central European Time, GMT+1).
Please carefully check your time zone.



+++ presentation: 30 min incl. Q&A +++


Thursday, November 18:

 
15:15    -    15:30         Welcome and Introduction
 
 
                    Session A
 
15:30    -    16:00         Yusuf Mercan (University of Melbourne), Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley and IZA), Petr Sedlacek (University of New South Wales)
     "A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations"
 
16:00    -    16:30         Christian Merkl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA), Anja Bauer (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Heiko Stüber (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA)
     "Labor Market Dynamics: The Role of Matching Efficiency and Quits"
 
16:30    -    17:00         Shu Lin Wee (Bank of Canada), Serdar Birinci (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Kurt Gerrard See (Bank of Canada)
     "Job Applications and Labor Market Flows"
 
 
17:00    -    17:15         Break / Breakout Session
 
 
                    Session B
 
17:15    -    17:45
         Nezih Guner (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and IZA), Alessandro Ruggieri (University of Nottingham)
     "Misallocation and Inequality"
 
17:45    -    18:15         Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn and IZA), Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Xincheng Qiu (University of Pennsylvania)
     "The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction"
 
18:15    -    18:45 
        Chiara Lacava (Goethe University Frankfurt)
     "Matching and Sorting across Regions"
 
 
18:45    -    19:00         Break / Breakout Session
 
 
19:00    -    20:00         Keynote
 
          Robert E. Hall (Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University)


 
Friday, November 19:

 
                    Session C
 
15:30    -    16:00       
 Richard Rogerson (Princeton University), Andres Erosa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Luisa Fuster (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto)
     "Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality"
 
16:00    -    16:30         Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hoover Institution and IZA), Mark Bils (University of Rocherster), Paulo Lins (University of Rocherster)
     "The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor"
 
16:30    -    17:00         Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley and IZA)
     "The Financial Channel of Wage Rigidity"
 
 
17:00    -    17:15         Break / Breakout Session
 
 
                    Session D
 
17:15    -    17:45         Pieter A. Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA), James Albrecht (Georgetown University and IZA), Xiaoming Cai (Peking University), Susan Vroman (Georgetown University and IZA)
     "On the Foundtions of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers"
 
17:45    -    18:15         Cynthia Doniger (Federal Reserve Board), Desmond Toohey (University of Delaware)
     "On the Efficiency of Progressive Social Insurance and a Novel Test for Posted Wages"
 
18:15    -    18:45         Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich and IZA), Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne and IZA), Aderonke Osikominu (University of Hohenheim and IZA), Jeremy Zuchuat (University of Lausanne)
     "Duration Depedence in Job Search"
 
 
18:45    -    19:00         Break / Breakout Session
 
 
19:00    -    20:00         Keynote
 
          Steven J. Davis (William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution)
 
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