Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop

Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop

Ortygia Business School, Siracusa

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Organized by Sapienza University of Rome, Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, SSHRC CRSH, Mont^2 Econ Lab, and Collegio Carlo Alberto

Day 1 – Friday, 28 June 2024

9.00-9.15 | Registration & Introduction

9.15-10.00 | Andre Groeger, Barcelona School of Economics
Misallocation and Shocks: Evidence from Vietnamese Villages
(joint with Luis E. Rojas, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Yanos Zylberberg)
Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University

10.00-10.45 | Alessandro Ruggieri, Cunef Universidad
Firms, Policies, Informality, and the Labor Market
(joint with Camila Cisnernos)
Discussant: Pierre Luis Vézina, King’s College London

10.45-11.15 | Coffee Break

11.15-12-00 | Anna Vitali, Dartmouth College
Skill-capital Complementarities and the Effectiveness of Firm Training Programs
(joint with Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul, Ottavia Anna Veroux)
Discussant: Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI

12.00-12.45 | Jiayue Zhang, Brown University
Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana
(joint with Jamie McCasland, Morgan Hardy)
Discussant: Camila Cisneros, University of Tübingen

12.45-14.00 | Lunch

14.00-15.00 | Keynote: Paula Bustos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Industrialization without Innovation
(joint with with Juanma Castro Vincenzi, Joan Monras and Jacopo Ponticelli)

15.00-15.15 | Coffee Break

15.15-16.00 | Amrita Dhillon, King’s College London
Social Networks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform
(joint with Farzana Afridi, Sanchari Roy, Nikita Sangwan)
Discussant: Morgan Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi

16.00-16.45 | Yogita Shamdasani, National University of Singapore
Habit Formation in Labor Supply
(joint with Luisa Cefala, Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield)
Discussant: Christian Meyer, University of Oxford

20:00 | Conference Dinner

Day 2 – Saturday, 29 June 2024
9.15 – 10.00 | Alejandro Estefan, University of Notre Dame
Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban
(joint with Roberto Gerhard, Joseph P. Kaboski, Illenin O. Kondo, Wei Qian)
Discussant: Giorgio Presidente, Bocconi University

10.00 – 10.45 | Julia Cajal-Grossi, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
Workers in Space: Evidence from Urban Bangladesh
(joint with Gabriel Kreindler)
Discussant: Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

10.45-11.00 | Coffee Break

11.00-11.45 | Ignacio Marra de Artinano, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
The Value of Organic Certifications
(joint with Gabriel Scattolo, Christian Volpe Martincus, Lucas Zavala)
Discussant: Davide Del Prete, University of Naples Parthenope

11.45-12.30 | Niclas Moneke, University of Oxford
Female Wage Labour and Fertility: Evidence from the Cut-Flower Industry in Kenya
(joint with Menna Bishop, Celine Zipfel)
Discussant: Paolo Falco, University of Copenhagen

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Organizers
-Francesco Amodio, McGill University
-Michele Di Maio, Sapienza University of Rome
-Mariapia Mendola, University of Milan Bicocca and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
-Marco Sanfilippo, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto