Calendrier du 07 novembre 2024
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 07/11/2024 de 16:00 à 02:11
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
LUKASZ Rachel (UCL)
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Travail et économie publique externe
Du 07/11/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R1-09
SILLIMAN Mikko (Aalto University)
Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm performance
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets textemdash immigrants and unions -- to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with weaker union representation. Second, these firms with weaker union representation are able to use the cheaper immigrant labor to scale up production, thereby out-competing firms with stronger union representation and capturing market share. Third, incumbent workers in firms with weaker union representation benefit by shifting into management positions and capturing some of the firm's increased rents. Fourth, despite benefiting incumbent workers in firms with weaker union representation, these workers are more likely to become union members themselves in response to greater contact with new immigrants. Broadly, our results cut across nearly all sectors but are considerably more muted in competitive markets.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 07/11/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1-14
SPIEGLER Rani (LSE)
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PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 07/11/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
BLANC Guillaume (University of Manchester)
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Behavior seminar
Du 07/11/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
R2-21
BOGLIACINO Francesco (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
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