The workshop, co-funded by the Norwegian Research Council and BI, is organized by Andreas Kostøl (BI), Ragnhild Schreiner (UiO), and Manudeep Bhuller (UiO). It annually brings together economists working on labor markets and public economics, and this year's edition was no exception.
The program featured a rich mix of topics. Sydnee Caldwell (UC Berkeley) examined how firm pay and amenities drive inequality, while Daphné Skandalis (University of Copenhagen) looked at how perceived wage gaps shape early career job search. Bradley Setzler (Penn State) investigated conduct in U.S. labor markets, and Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi) explored how AI can improve job matching, drawing on evidence from 59 million personalized recommendations. Ragnhild Schreiner (UiO) asked who really bears the burden of payroll taxes at the top of the income distribution, and Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi) studied how workers respond to survivor insurance benefits. Further presentations covered earnings volatility and household risk-sharing, workplace heterogeneity in wage growth, digital adoption and worker earnings, criminal coworkers and recidivism, housing instability and safety nets, optimal matching policies, and firm responses to demand shocks.
Workshop programme:
Day 1 - June 4th
- Sydnee Caldwell: "Firm Pay, Amenities, and Inequality"
- Daphné Skandalis: "Perceived Wage Differences and Early Career Job Search Choices"
- Bradley Setzler: "Conduct in U.S. Labor Markets"
- Giulia Giupponi: "When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Survivor Insurance Benefits"
- Martin Andresen: "Monthly Earnings Volatility and Household Pooling"
- Thomas Le Barbanchon: "How Can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations"
- Ragnhild Schreiner: "Who Pays for Payroll Taxes at the Top?"
Day 2 - June 5th
- Ines Helm: "Workplace Heterogeneity in Wage Growth"
- Pascuel Plotkin: "Digital Adoption, Labor Demand, and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Online Delivery"
- Rasmus Landersø: "Criminals at Work: The Role of Criminal Coworkers for Recidivism"
- Daniel Tannenbaum: "A Safety Net for the Tenuously Housed: Experimental Evidence from a Large Government Program"
- Rasmus Lentz: "Directedness in Search"
- Yagan Hazard: "Who With Whom: Learning Optimal Matching Policies"
- Manudeep Bhuller: "Wage-Setting Constraints and Firm Responses to Demand Shocks"