Lacea Labor Market Network
Thursday, May 21st
Morning sessions Chair: William Maloney (The World Bank- Uniandes)
9:00 -
9:05
Opening remarks. William Maloney (The World Bank - Uniandes)
Session-1:
Firm dynamics
9:05 -
9:50
Dual Employment Protection Legislation and the Size Distribution of Firms
Roman Fossati (University of Bristol), Andres Erosa
Paper
Discussant: Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
9:50 -
10:35
Do Entry Regulation and Taxes Hinder Firm Creation and Formalization? Evidence from Brazil
Gabriel Ulyssea (PUC Rio), Rudy Rocha, Laysa Rachter
Paper
Discussant: William Maloney (The World Bank and Universidad de Los Andes)
10:35
11:00
Coffee break
Session-2:
Exporting
11:00 -
11:45
Preparing to Export
Claudio Labanca (UC San Diego), Danielken Molina, Marc-Andreas Muendler
Paper
Discussant: Juan Felipe Mejía (EAFIT, Medellín)
11:45 -
12:30
Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 years of Brazilian Matched Employer Employee
Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University), Brian Kovak
Paper
Discussant: Juan Miguel Villa Lora (IADB)
12:30
2:00
Lunch
Afternoon Sessions Chair: Marcela Eslava (Uniandes)
2:00 -
3:00
Keynote Presentation
Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
Session-3:
Employment
3:00 -
3:45
Motivations, Monitoring Technologies, and Pay for Performance.
Tito Cordella (The World Bank), Antonio Cordella
Paper
Discussant: Andrés Zambrano (Universidad de Los Andes)
3:45
4:00
Coffee break
4:00
4:45
Fear of Labor Rigidities: The role of expectations on employment growth in Peru
Pablo Lavado (Universidad del Pacífico), Gustavo Yamada
Paper
Discussant: Carlos Ospino (Universidad de Los Andes)
4:45
5:30
Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics
Dimitri Szerman (PUC Rio), Claudio Ferraz, Federico Finan,
Paper
Discussant: Marcela Eslava (Universidad de Los Andes)
Friday, May 22nd
Chair: Juan Miguel Villa Lora (IADB)
Session-4:
9:00 -
9:45
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker´s Model of Employer Discrimination
Rodrigo Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV), Guilherme Hirata
Paper
Discussant: Hugo Ñopo (IADB)
9:45
10:30
Parametric Pension Reform and the Intensive Margin of Labor Supply, Evidence from Colombia
Dario Maldonado, Darwin Cortés, Giselle Vesga
Paper
Discussant: Hugo Ñopo (IADB)
10:30
10:45
Coffee break
Session-5:
Training vouchers
10:45 -
11:30
Long Term Impacts of Vouchers for Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence for Colombia
Arlen Guarin (Banco de la República, Colombia), Orazio Attanasio, Carlos Medina, Costas Meghir
Paper
Discussant: Sandra García (Universidad de Los Andes, School of Government)
11:30 -
12:15
Training Vouchers and Labor Market Outcomes in Chile
Claudia Vazquez (IADB), Rafael Novella, David Kaplan , Gracias Rucci
Paper
Discussant: Carlos Medina (Banco de la República de Colombia)
12:15 -
1:30
Lunch
Session-6:
1:30
2:15
Knowledge Spillovers of Innovation Policy through Labor Movility : Evidence from de FONTAR Program in Argentina
Rodolfo Stucchi (IADB) Victoria Castillo, Lucas Garone, Alessandro Maffioli, Sofia Rojo.
Paper
Discussant: Jose Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
2:15
3:00
Motivation or management practices as motors of growth in microfirms: lessons from a randomized experiment in chile
Jeanne Lafortune, Julio Riutort, Jose Tessada
Paper
Discussant: Rodolfo Stucchi (IADB)
