Macro Labor Reading Group 2013/2014

December 17th, 2013
Carolina Silva, Universidad de Alicante
1. Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects, 2. Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
(joint with 1.Hagedorn, Karahan, Manovskii and Mitman, 2.Jesse Rothstein)
Material for Download:
Carolina-I.pdf
Carolina-II.pdf
 

December 24th, 2013
Ofer Cornfeld, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Two datasets: "The world top incomes database" and "The equality of opportunity project" and accompanying papers.
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December 31st, 2013
Shlomi Ben Yehuda, Room 008 - The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Shlomi will present a paper by Barberis et al. (2013) "X-CAPM: an Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing
(joint with Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin and Andrei Schleifer)
Material for Download:
Barberis_et_al_2013.pdf
 

January 14th, 2014
Efraim Waizman, Room 101 - The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Efraim will present a paper by Garicano and Rossi (2012): Organizing Growth
Material for Download:
Garicano_Rossi_2012.pdf
 

March 3rd, 2014
Avihai Lifschitz, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment by Helpman and Itskhoki
Material for Download:
Helpman_Itskhoki.pdf
 

March 10th, 2014
Ofer Cornfeld, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Ofer will present the paper by Lee and Saez (2012) entitled Optimum Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
Material for Download:
Lee_Saez_2012.pdf
 

April 28th, 2014
Pavel Jelnov, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Pavel will present a paper by Grossman, Helpman and Kircher, entitled Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy
Material for Download:
Grossman_et_al_2013.pdf
 

May 19th, 2014
Shlomi Ben Yehuda, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
TBA
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May 26th, 2014
Efraim Weizman, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
TBA
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June 2nd, 2014
Tanya Baron, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
TBA
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