Friday, February 19, 2021
8:45am – 3:45pm
Zoom
WALES is a one-day labor economics conference that brings together researchers from DC-area institutions. The goal is to provide an outlet to share work in progress and get to know other researchers. Breakfast, lunch and coffee will be served.
Click here to find an archive of the previous WALES conferences.
Agenda
Welcome and Introduction
8:45-9:00 a.m. – Welcome remarks by Jay Shambaugh, IIEP Co-Director; Introductory remarks by WALES Organizing Committee – Alessandra Fenizia, Elira Kuka, and Bryan Stuart
Session 1: Labor Market Power
9:00am-9:30am: “Urban Transit Infrastructure: Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Power”,
Felipe Vial, World Bank
9:30am-10:00am: “The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions of Worker Mobility”,
Mike Lipsitz, Federal Tracde Commission
10:00am-10:30am: “Worker Earnings, Service Quality, and Firm Profitability: Evidence from Nursing Homes and Minimum Wage”,
Krista Ruffini, Minneapolis Federal Reserve / Georgetown University
10:30am-10:45am: Break
Session 2: Firms and Workers
10:45am-11:15am: “The Career Implications of Start-up Work Experience”,
Martha Stinson, US Census Bureau
11:15am- 11:45pm: “U.S. Robots and their Impacts in the Tropics: Evidence from Colombian Labor Markets”,
Adriana Kugler, Georgetown University
11:45am- 1:00pm: Lunch
Session 3: Segregation, Past and Present
1:00pm-1:30pm: “Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation between Local Governments in U.S. Metropolitan Areas”,
Tomas Monarrez, Urban Institute
1:30pm-2:00pm: “Housing Market Channels of Segregation”,
Nicholas Li, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
2:00pm-2:15pm: Break
Session 4: Gender Wage Gap
2:15pm-2:45pm: “Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty”,
Dani Sandler, US Census Bureau
2:45pm-3:15pm: “How the 1963 Equal Pay Act Affected the U.S. Gender Gap”,
Bryan Stuart, George Washington University
3:15pm-3:45pm: Social Hour on Gather.town
