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SUMMARY:Book Talk - Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters
DESCRIPTION: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 contribution. \n	This forensic book demonstrates that illiberal populism strikes hardest when family origins decide success rather than talent and effort. The authors\, Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville\, propose a framework of policy inputs that instead support high social mobility\, and apply it to diagnose the differing reasons behind economic unfairness in the US\, UK\, Italy\, and France. \n	Author: Eric Protzer\, Growth Lab Research Fellow \n	Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at HKS \n	Please register in advance. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  \n	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-reclaiming-populism-how-economic-fairness-can-win-back-disenchanted-voters/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Colombia’s Structural Challenges for the Creation of New\, Better and More Inclusive Jobs
DESCRIPTION: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 the 2009-2019 period\, this report seeks to provide analytical underpinnings to this process. At the macro level\, the report shows that employment in Colombia is insufficiently diversified relying almost exclusively on job creation in the services sectors. This exposes the labor market to cyclical changes in internal demand that are typical for commodity rich economies like Colombia. At the worker level\, the report shows that the economy generates too few formal employment opportunities for those with fewer skills and those living in rural areas\, implying low earnings\, high rates of self-employment\, and high levels of informality. At the firm level\, the report shows that the labor regulatory regime has contributed to strong increases in labor costs with important effects on entry and exit dynamics of firms contributing to a compositional shift towards larger\, more capitalized\, and more skill-intensive firms. 	World Bank report citation:Carranza\, Eliana; Wiseman\, William; Eberhard-Ruiz\, Andreas; Cardenas\, Ana Lucia. 2021. “Colombia Jobs Diagnostic : Structural Challenges for the Creation of New\, Better and More Inclusive Jobs (Spanish).” Jobs Series; Issue No. 30 Washington\, D.C. : World Bank Group. 	Speaker bios: 	Laura Pabón is the Director of Social Development of the National Planning Department of Colombia\, and member of the Technical Secretary of Colombia’s Mision de Empleo. In 2020\, she was recognized by the Presidency of the Republic and Civil Service as the best public servant in the country. Laura is an economist with a master’s degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes and a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. 	Eliana Carranza is a Senior Economist at the World Bank Social Protection and Jobs Practice. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School\, in the Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) Program. Eliana works with national governments in the formulation of diagnoses\, strategies and solutions to labor force and employment challenges. She holds an MPA in International Development and a PhD in Political Economy and Government (Economics) from Harvard University. 	Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz is an Economist at the World Bank Jobs Group\, where he works on jobs\, growth\, and structural change. Prior to joining the World Bank\, he worked for the European Commission and for the Ugandan Finance Ministry as a Fellow of the UK’s Overseas Development Institute. His research focuses on trade and competitiveness\, and regional market integration. He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-colombias-structural-challenges-for-the-creation-of-new-better-and-more-inclusive-jobs/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic\, Institutional\, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets
DESCRIPTION: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 test this hypothesis across various institutional\, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU SILC datasets\, we study the relationship between residual wage premia as a measure of skill shortages in different occupation-industry-country cells and the shares of immigrants and natives working in these cells. We find that immigrants’ responsiveness to skill shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15\, in particular in member states with low GDP\, higher levels of immigration from outside EU\, and more open immigration and integration policies; but also those with barriers to citizenship acquisition or family reunification. While higher welfare spending seems to exert a lock-in effect\, a comparison across different types of welfare states indicates that institutional complementarities alleviate the effect. 	Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-how-immigration-grease-is-affected-by-economic-institutional-and-policy-contexts-evidence-from-eu-labor-markets/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Development Talks: A New Agenda for African Continental Integration
DESCRIPTION: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\, Growth Lab 	Please register in advance to attend this webinar. Contact Chuck McKenney with any event-related questions. \nAbout the speaker: 	A Rwandan economist\, Mr. Kaberuka is Chairman and Managing Partner of SouthBridge\, a Pan-African financial advisory and investment firm. Previously\, he served as the 7th President of the African Development Bank (AfDB)\, from 2005 to 2015\, in which he is credited with the expansion of the reach and impact of AfDB. During his two terms as President\, Mr. Kaberuka led from the front on infrastructure\, promoted private sector development and economic integration. The Bank played a major countercyclical role during the 2008 financial crisis to enable African countries in weathering the crisis. Prior to joining AfDB\, Mr. Kaberuka served as Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning from 1997 to 2005. Mr. Kaberuka is currently the African Union High Representative for the Peace Fund and Board Chair of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, Tuberculosis and Malaria and also serves on the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation\, the Centre for Global Development and several other advisory boards. 	Mr. Donald Kaberuka was educated at universities in Tanzania and Scotland. He holds a PhD in Economics from Glasgow University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talks-a-new-agenda-for-african-continental-integration/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power
DESCRIPTION: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 Kremer (1993)’s O-ring production function. Workers have individual hold-up power if (i) labor is organized into distinct\, differentiated positions (ii) the output of positions is individually complementary or “critical” in the production process\, and (iii) skills are position-specific\, i.e.\, skills are acquired on the job and are not transferable across positions or firms. If output losses from an unfilled position are larger at productive firms\, incomplete contracts and on-the-job search incentivize productive firms to pay differentially high wages. We estimate individual worker hold-up power by occupation using the effect of worker deaths on firm profits in Danish administrative data and using a measure of within-firm\, across-position task differentiation from US job posting data. High hold-up occupations exhibit both higher wage levels and higher long-run passthrough of permanent firm productivity innovations to wages\, supporting the main model predictions. Accounting for heterogeneity in hold-up power across occupations has numerous implications for wage inequality: (1) greater employment of men in high hold-up occupations can account for one fifth of the Danish gender wage gap; (2) rising “superstar firms” increase wage inequality; (3) hold-up power decreases the responsiveness of wages to labor market slack. 	Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-which-workers-earn-more-at-productive-firms-position-specific-skills-and-individual-hold-up-power/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
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