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GRID Conference on Global Trends in Inequality: Myths vs Facts

Casa Convalescència, C/ de St. Antoni Maria Claret, 171
Barcelona, June 26 2024

9:00-9:30 Coffee and Pastries

9:30-11:00 Session 1: New Insights from GRID Data and Beyond

Mario Giarda and Sergio Salgado
Monetary Shocks and Labor Income Risk with a Billion Observations

Serdar Birinci, Youngmin Park, Thomas Pugh and Kurt See
Uncovering the Differences among Displaced Workers: Evidence from Canadian Job Separation Records

 Fabio Braggion, Giuseppe Floccari and Jens Kvaerner
Systematic Labor Income Risk, Firm Insurance, and the Financial Behavior of Households

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session 2: Earnings Gaps by Gender and Skill

Federico S. Mandelman, Yang Yu, Francesco Zanetti, Andrei Zlate
Slowdown in Immigration, Labor Shortages, and Declining Skill Premia

 Marco G. Palladino, Antoine Bertheau, Alexander Hijzen, Astrid Kunze, Cesar Barreto, Dogan Gülümser, Marta Lachowska, Anne Sophie Lassen, Stefano Lombardi, Jordy Meekes, Balazs Murakozy, Oskar Skans
The Unequal Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women Across Countries

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, Matteo Paradisi
One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Education, Income, and Wealth Mobility

Michelle Rendall, Satoshi Tanaka and Yi Zhang
College Majors and Skill Mismatch in Labour Markets

Richard Audoly, Rory McGee, Sergio Ocampo and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo
The Life-Cycle Dynamics of Wealth Mobility 

J. Carter Braxton, Nisha Chikhale, Kyle Herkenhoff and Gordon Phillips
Intergenerational Mobility and Credit

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:15 Round Table on Income Inequality: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Response

Panelists: Richard Blundell (UCL), Wojciech Kopczuk(Columbia), and Stefano Scarpetta (OECD)