Wages and Low Pay in the Labour Market

Thursday 5th - Friday 6th March 2015

Day 1: Thursday 5th March
10:00-10:30	Registration and Coffee
10:30-11:30	Brian Bell (University of Oxford / CEP) "Wage Stagnation and the Hidden Costs of Employment" Discussant: Paul Gregg (University of Bath)
11:30-12:30	Jonathan Cribb (IFS) "Earnings in the UK since the recession” (co-authored with Robert Joyce) Discussant: Paul Gregg (University of Bath)
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (Essex) "Marginal Employment: Evidence from Germany” (co-authored with Jean-Marc Robin and Andrey Launov) Discussant: Henry Farber (Princeton)
14:30-15:30	Alex Bryson (NIESR / CEP) "It’s Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the US” (co-authored with Erling Barth, Jim Davis and Richard Freeman) Discussant: Eric French (UCL)

Day 2: Friday 6th March
09:00-09:30	Coffee
09:30-10:30	Henry Farber (Princeton University) "Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey” Discussant: Stephen Machin (UCL / CEP)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	David Green (University of British Columbia) "The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of Wage Distribution" (co-authored with Pierre Brochu, Thomas Lemieux and James Townsend) Discussant: Richard Dickens (University of Sussex)
12:00-13:00	Arindrajit Dube (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) "Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Income" Discussant: Richard Dickens (University of Sussex)
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Wenchao Michelle Jin (IFS / UCL) "Increases in Educational Attainment and the Impact on Wages: A Cohort-Based Analysis for the UK” (co-authored with Richard Blundell and David Green) Discussant: Stephen Machin (UCL / CEP)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:30	Johannes Schmieder (Boston University) “You're In then You're Out: The Incidence and Effects of Being Outsourced” (co-authored with Deborah Goldschmidt) Discussant: Richard Blundell (UCL / IFS)
16:30-17:30	Uta Schoenberg (UCL) "Labor Supply Shocks and the Adjustment Dynamics of Local Wages and Employment: New Evidence from a Commuting Policy” (coauthored with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler) Discussant: Jonathan Wadsworth, CEP (LSE) / RHUL