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    • Research Seminar: Colombia’s Structural Challenges for the Creation of New, Better and More Inclusive Jobs

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    Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  Speakers: Laura Pabón, Eliana Carranza, and Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz Abstract:In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor market conditions. Based on a comprehensive review of Colombia’s labor market performance for […]

    Research Seminar: How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

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    Speaker: Martin Kahanec, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. Abstract: (Paper)Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing skill shortages across countries, occupation groups and industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to […]

    Research Seminar: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power

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    Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard University Paper: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power Abstract: We argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of […]

    • Research Seminar: Vietnam’s role in the US-China trade war

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    Speaker: Karin Mayr-Dorn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz Paper: Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the US-China Trade War Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries […]

    Research Seminar: Achieving Power Sector Carbon Neutrality in a Low-cost Renewable Era

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    Speaker: Gang He, Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University Abstract: Clean power transition is at the center to achieve mid-century carbon neutrality goals. The cost of solar and wind has plummeted in the past decade, and solar and wind electricity has been achieving grid parity. Low-cost renewables offer new perspectives […]

    Research Seminar: Technology Within and Across Firms

    Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
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    Speaker: Diego Comin, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Paper: Technology Within and Across Firms Abstract: This study collects data on the sophistication of technologies used at the business function level for a representative sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology sophistication across […]

    Research Seminar: Organizational Frictions to Automation, and Its Effects on Firms, Workers, and Labor Markets

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    Speaker: Daniel P. Gross, Assistant Professor, Duke's Fuqua School of Business Abstract: AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching---a technology first invented in the […]

    • Research Seminar: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks

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    The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. Speaker: Evgenii Fadeev, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard Paper: Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks Abstract: Knowledge flows between firms are often measured using patent citations. I show that even the […]

    Research Seminar: Mechanisms of Hardware and Soft Technology Evolution and the Implications for Low-Carbon Energy Costs

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    The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. Speaker: Magdalena Klemun, Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Interdisciplinary Program Office; Research Affiliate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Abstract: Technologies typically contain […]

    • Research Seminar: Migration and Cultural Change

    Weil Town Hall - Belfer/Zoom (registration info below)
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    The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. Speaker: Hillel Rapoport, Professor of Economics (and Director of International Relations) at the Paris School of Economics Abstract: We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking […]

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