Harvard Kennedy School
Reclaiming Populism contends that populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to immigration or income inequality, but economic unfairness: the sense of being held back from success because opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank (2005-2015) Moderator: Tim O'Brien, Senior Manager, Applied Research, […]
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 […]
The work of development is to improve quality of life and expand economic opportunity across diverse global communities, and graduate programs such as the MPA/ID program at HKS are enormously diverse in national origin, gender, and professional and lived experience. Yet, a 2020 survey of MPA/ID alumni revealed that roughly half of all respondents have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Growth Lab has recently collaborated with the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics to launch the Growth Co-Lab at LSE. The strategic goal is to bring together the capacities, expertise, and reach of two top academic institutions to expand the activities of the Growth Lab globally. In this public event marking the […]