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The Atlanta Fed's Center for Human Capital Studies will host its 13th annual employment conference on September 26 and 27 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Agenda

Time allotment: 35 minutes presenters, 15 minutes discussants, and 10 minutes Q&A
Thursday, September 26
Noon
 Lunch
1:00 p.m.
 Welcome
Paula Tkac, Executive Vice President and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session 1
Moderator: Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1:15
 "Labor Shortages and Firm Search"
Presenter: Zoe Cullen, Harvard University
Coauthors: Mitch Hoffman and Felix Koenig
Discussant: Sadhika Bagga, University of Rochester
2:15 "Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?" Adobe PDF file format
Presenter: Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester
Coauthors: Eleanor Dillon, Joanna Venator, and Michael Dalton
Discussant: Rachel Schuh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
3:15
 Break
3:45 "Technology and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data"
Presenter: Lawrence Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coauthors: Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Bryan Seegmiller
Discussant: Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
4:45

"Within-Firm Pay Inequality and Productivity"
Presenter: Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
Coauthors: Nicholas Bloom, Scott W. Ohlmacher, and Cristina Tello-Trillo
Discussant: Mons Chan, Queen's University
6:00 Reception and dinner at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
 
Friday, September 27
8:00 a.m.
 Continental breakfast

Session 2
Moderator: TBD
8:30 "Deadwood Labor? Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers"
Presenter: Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley
Coauthors: Emmanuel Saez and David G. Seim
Discussant: John Bailey Jones, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
9:30 "Firm Accommodation After Disability: Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance"
Presenter: Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Coauthors: Naoki Aizawa and Stephanie L. Rennane
Discussant: Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
10:30 Break
11:00 "Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spell"
Presenter: Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University
Discussant: Jason Sockin, Cornell University
Noon "The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences"
Presenter: Chris Moser, Columbia University
Coauthor: Iacopo Morchio
Discussant: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:00 p.m. Closing remarks
1:15 Bag lunch
   
Conference organizers: Lei Fang, M. Melinda Pitts, and David Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta