3
rdWorkshop on the
Spatial dimensions of the Labour Market
Spatial Dimensions of Inequality
Mannheim, March 30-31, 2017
Workshop venue: Centre for European Economic Research, L7 1, 68161 Mannheim
Each presentation in the contributed sessions has a time slot of 30 minutes. The presenter should leave about 5-10 minutes for discussion.
P R O G R A M M E
T h u r s d a y , M a r c h 3 0 , 2 0 1 78:30 Registration 8:50 - 9:00 Welcome Address
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote I
Jens Südekum, University of Düsseldorf
Spatial Wage Disparities – Workers, Firms, and Assortative Matching (joint with Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Enrico Moretti) Chair: Uwe Blien
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1-A: Technological change Session 1-B: Mobility Why Is the “Cambridge Phenomenon” More Than an
Innovation Bubble?
Annie Tubadji
Honey, Robots Shrunk My Wage! Native-Immigrant Wage Gaps and Skill Biased Technological Change Tao Song
Technological progress and (un)employment development
Uwe Blien
Chair: Melanie Arntz
Job Mobility Networks and Endogenous Labor Markets
Jan Sebastian Nimczik
Countercyclical School Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility
Clément Malgouyres
Entry into working life: internal migration and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates Frank Cörvers
Chair:Stephan Brunow 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch, ZEW Bistro
13:00 - 14:30 Session 2-A: Local shocks Session 2-B: Urban inequalities The Effects of Services Offshoring on UK local
labour market Martina Magli
The Rise of the East and the Rise of the Populists Ulrich Zierahn
Employment Effects of Capital Subsidies in Spatial Equilibrium: Evidence from Eastern Germany Tobias Etzel
Chair: Federico Trionfetti
Cost of living, centralized wage setting and urban wage premia
Paolo Naticchioni
So close yet so unequal: Reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities
Francesco Andreoli
Unequal Productivity Gains in Urban China Pierre-Philippe Combes
Chair: Simonetta Longhi 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00 Poster Session - A Poster Session - B
Poster Session
Is There a Relative Scarcity of STEM Labor Force in Germany?
Stefanie Lösch
Spatial mismatch in France: The dilemma of blue- collar households
Olivier Baguelin
A method for decomposing spatial mismatch: an empirical example of Flanders
Tobias Theys
Regional variation in the gender pay gap:
determinants and changes over time Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio
Employees in the High North of Russia – Who Are They? Logit Models Based Analysis
Marina Giltman
Personality, Education and Regional Human Capital Eckhardt Bode
Impact of Regional Minimum Wage on Household Consumption in Russia
Sergey Kapelyuk
16:00 - 17:30 Session 3-A: Demographics Session 3-B: Agglomeration effects Heterogeneous impacts of ageing on the
German labor market Roth Duncan
Demographic Change and Regional Skill Composition in Germany
Paula Prenzel
What is the Effect of Population Ageing in Regional Labour Market Fluctuations of Germany? A SVAR with Zero-Sign
Roberto Patuelli Chair: Roberto Patuelli
Benefits of dense labour markets – Evidence from transitions to employment in Germany
Annekatrin Niebuhr
Agglomeration and the decline of routine employment
Valerio Intraligi
Regional Equilibrium Unemployment with Agglomeration Effects
Guillaume Wilemme
Chair: Pierre-Philippe Combes 19:00 Dinner, ZEW Bistro
P R O G R A M M E
F r i d a y , 3 1 M a r c h , 2 0 1 79:00 - 10:00
Keynote II
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, President of the RSAI
What drives employment growth and social inclusion in the regions of the European Union?
Chair: Andreas Peichl 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Session 4-A: Institutions Session 4-B: Sorting across space Women and the labour market in East and West
Germany: Socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Michael Wyrwich
Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter- provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Jeffrey Zax
Do Institutions Affect Labour Market Participation?
The Italian case Massimiliano Cerciello Chair: Philipp Dörrenberg
Urban Land Use, Sorting, and Population Density: A Continuous Logit Model Matthias Wrede
Why does birthplace matter so much? Sorting, learning and geography
Clement Bosquet
The Impact of Subway on Employment of Firms Cong Peng
Chair: Christian Schluter 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch, ZEW Bistro
13:00 - 14:30 Session 5-A: Spatial wage inequalities Session 5-B: Migration Directed Search across Local Labour Markets
Panagiotis Nanos
Job Prospects and Pay Gaps: Theory and Evidence on the Gender Gap from U.S. Cities
Ben Sand
Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities
Jan Cornelius Peters Chair: Sarra Ben Yahmed
The role of location in the estimation of ethnic wage differentials
Simonetta Longhi
Regional distribution and location choices of immigrants in Germany
Kerstin Tanis
Migration and Tolerance to Inequality: Limits to Urban Economic Growth
Annie Tubadji Chair: Mark trede 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 6-A: Firm heterogeneity Session 6-B: Housing market Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in
China Loren Brandt
The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity
Vera Jahn
Chair: Lisa Schrüfer
Market break or simply fake? Empirics on the causal effects of rent controls in Germany Andreas Mense
Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities Max Löffler
Chair: Kerstin Tanis
16:00 - 17:00
Keynote III
Gilles Duranton, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and RCEA Growth in Cities Revisited
Chair: Roberto Patuelli
17:00 Farewell
