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Conference information
- Registration
- Hotel reservations
- Speaker biographies
- Past annual employment conferences
The Atlanta Fed's Center for Human Capital Studies will host its tenth annual employment conference on October 17 and 18 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The conference hotel is the Hyatt Centric Midtown Atlanta. Please register by September 18 to receive the conference rate.
If you have any questions, contact Lisa Piggott or Melinda Pitts.
Agenda
| Thursday, October 17 | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch |
| Welcome Paula Tkac, Senior Vice President, Associate Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| Session 1 Moderator: Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| 12:45 | "Productivity Dispersion, Between-Firm Competition, and the Labor Share"  Presenter: Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Columbia University Discussant: Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University |
| 1:45 | "Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages" Presenter: Gregor Jarosch, Princeton University Coauthors: Jan Sebastian Nimczik and Isaac Sorkin Discussant: Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University |
| 2:45 | Break |
| 3:15 | "Labor Market Power"  Presenter: Simon Mongey, University of Chicago Coauthors: David W. Berger and Kyle F. Herkenhoff Discussant: Jan Eeckhout, University College London and University Pompeu Fabra |
| 4:15 | "The Wages of Nonemployment" Presenter: Ryan Michaels, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Coauthors: Michael Elsby, Matthew Shapiro, and Daved Ratner Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago |
| 5:15 | Break |
| 5:30 |
"The Great Micro Moderation" Presenter: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University Coauthors: N. Bloom, F. Guvenen, J. Sabelhaus, S. Salgado, and J. Song Discussant: Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| 6:30 | Reception and dinner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| Friday, October 18 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| Session 2 Moderator: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University |
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| 8:30 | "Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation" Presenter: Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Coauthors: Guiseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay Discussant: Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau |
| 9:30 | "Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics" Presenter: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University Coauthor: Marianna Kudlyak Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | "The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism" Presenter: Amanda Y. Agan, Rutgers University Coauthor: Michael D. Makowsky Discussant: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Noon | Closing remarks |
| Bag lunch | |
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago
Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta