- 14th joint ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop
Labour markets in the digital era
Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 December 2018
ECB main building, Room C2.05, Frankfurt am Main
Programme
* indicates the presenter
- 8:00
- Registration and coffee
- 8:30
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Welcome address
Luis de Guindos, Vice-President, European Central Bank and CEPR
- 9:00
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Keynote speech “Individual consequences of occupational decline”
Guy Michaels, London School of Economics and CEPR
together with Per-Anders Edin, Uppsala University and CEPR; Tiernan Evans, London School of Economics; Georg Graetz, Uppsala University; Sofia Hernnäs, Uppsala University
- 10:00
- Coffee break
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Session I – Wages
Chair: Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and CEPR
- 10:30
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The innovation premium to low-skill jobs
- Antonin Bergeaud*, Banque de France and CEPR
- Philippe Aghion, Collège de France and London School of Economics
- Richard Blundell, University College London and CEPR
- Rachel Griffith, University of Manchester and CEPR
Discussant: Juan Francisco Jimeno, Banco de España and CEPR
- 11:30
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Task prices, skill selection and wage inequality
- Felix Schran*, University of Bonn
- Michael J. Böhm, University of Bonn
- Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, University of Bonn
Discussant: Ernesto Villanueva, Banco de España
- 12:30
- Buffet lunch
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Session II: Biased technological change
Chair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank
- 14:00
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Biased technological change and employment reallocation
- Christian Siegel*, University of Kent
- Zsofia L. Barany, Sciences Po and CEPR
Discussant: Sang Yoon Lee, Queen Mary University of London
- 15:00
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Job polarization, skill mismatch and the Great Recession
Riccardo Zago, New York University
Discussant: Marcel Jansen, Autonomous University of Madrid
- 16:00
- Coffee break
- 16:15
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Skill-biased technological change within and across firms
- Seth Gordon Benzell*, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
- Guillermo Lagarda, Boston University and Inter-American Development Bank
- Daniel Rock, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and MIT Sloan School of Management
Discussant:Alessio Moro, University of Cagliari and CEPR
- 17:15
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Hours of work polarisation in the EU
- Athene Laws*, University of Cambridge
- António Dias Da Silva, European Central Bank
- Filippos Petroulakis, European Central Bank
Discussant: Emilie Rademakers, KU Leuven
- 19:30
- Dinner
- 8:30
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Registration and coffee
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Session III – Robots
Chair: Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank
- 9:00
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From secular stagnation to robocalypse? Implications for demographic and technological changes
- Juan Francisco Jimeno*, Banco de España and CEPR
- Henrique S. Basso, Banco de España
Discussant: Mirko Abbritti, University of Navarra
- 10:00
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Adjusting to robots: worker-level evidence
- Nicole Woessner*, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Wolfgang Dauth, University of Würzburg
- Sebastian Findeisen, University of Mannheim
- Jens Suedekum, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Discussant: Guillermo Lagarda, Boston University and Inter-American Development Bank
- 11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:15
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The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: a local labour market approach
- Georgios Petropoulos*, Bruegel
- Francesco Chiacchio, Bruegel
- David Pichler, Bruegel
Chair: Eliana Viviano, Banca d’ Italia
- 12:15
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Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy
- Nikhil Datta*, University College London and London School of Economics
- Giulia Giupponi and CEPR, London School of Economics
- Stephen Machin, London School of Economics and CEPR
Discussant: Antonio Dias Da Silva, European Central Bank
- 13:15
- Buffet lunch
- 15:00
- End of workshop
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
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
Agostino Consolo, European Central Bank
Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and CEPR
Ana Lamo, European Central Bank
Filippos Petroulakis, European Central Bank