Macroeconomics Conference: Sorting in Labor Markets, June 6-7, 2013

CONFERENCE IN MACROECONOMICS:
"SORTING IN LABOR MARKETS"
June 6–7, 2013

Location: YALE SOM, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St., Room A51
Organizers: Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

Thursday	8:00 – 9:00	Continental Breakfast
	9:00 – 10:00	Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences-Po and University College London, "Occupational Mobility and Wage Dynamics" (with Francis Kramarz, ENSEA-CREST and Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol)
	10:00 – 11:00	Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago, "Unemployment Inflows, Outflows and Labor Market Sorting"
	11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
	11:30 – 12:30	Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "An Equilibrium Model of Wage Dispersion and Sorting" (with Jesper Bagger, Holloway University, London)
	12:30 – 1:30	Lunch
	1:30 – 2:30	Jeremy Lise, University College London, "The Macro-dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms" (with Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences-Po)
	2:30 – 3:00	Coffee Break
	3:00 – 4:00	Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University College London, "Assortative Matching with Large Firms: Span of Control over More versus Better Workers" (with Philipp Kircher, London School of Economics)
	4:00 – 5:00	Hector Chade, Arizona State University, "Matching Information" (with Jan Eeckhout, University College London) [Slides]
	7:00	Dinner, Bentara Restaurant , 76 Orange St. New Haven
Friday	8:00 – 9:00	Continental Breakfast
	9:00 – 10:00	Francis Kramarz, ENSAE, "Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market" (with Jonathan Eaton, Penn State, Samuel Kortum, Yale University and Raul Sampognaro, Sciences-Po) [Slides]
	10:00 – 11:00	Philipp Kircher, University of Edinburgh, "Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy" (with Gene Grossman, Princeton University and Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University)
	11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
	11:30 – 12:30	Oleg Itskoki, Princeton University, "Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation" (with Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University, Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC San Diego and Stephen Redding, Princeton University)
	12:30 – 1:30	Lunch
	1:30 – 2:30	Thibaut Lamadon, University College London, "Productivity Shocks, Optimal Contracting and Wage Dynamics"
	2:30 – 3:00	Coffee Break
	3:00 – 4:00	Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania, "Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting" (with Marcus Hagedorn, Institut for Advanced Studies, Vienna and Tzuo Hann Law, University of Pennsylvania)
		Adjourn

PARTICIPANTS

Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
Jesper Bagger, Royal Holloway University, London
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex
Hector Chade, Arizona State University
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Maximiliano Dvorkin, Yale University
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/University College London
Benjamin Friedrich, Yale University
Marcus Hagedorn, Institute for Advances Studies Austria
William Hawkins, Yeshiva University
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University
Lisa Kahn, Yale University
Philipp Kircher, University of Edinburgh
Francis Kramarz, ENSEA-CREST
Ricardo Lagos, New York University

Thibaut Lamadon, University College London
Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Benjamin Lester, Federal Reserve, Philadelphia
Jeremy Lise, University College London
Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Costas Meghir, Yale University
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
Andreas Mueller, Columbia University
Michael Peters, Yale University
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences-Po
Edouard Schaal, New York University
Kyungchul (Kevin) Song, University of British Columbia
Gianluca Violante, New York University
Kieran Walsh, Yale University