Labor Markets and the Business Cycle in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Friday, November 16, 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Conference Agenda
8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	“The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries” Henry Siu, U. of British Columbia (joint with Nir Jaimovich) Discussants: Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chris Taber, University of Wisconsin
10:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.	“The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations” Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley Discussants: Dan Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
12:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	“Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty” Steve Davis, University of Chicago (joint with Scott Baker and Nicholas Bloom) Discussants: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania Eric Sims, Notre Dame University
2:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:00 p.m.	“Gross Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle” Richard Rogerson, Princeton University (joint with Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, and Aysegul Sahin) Discussants: Gadi Barlevy, Northwestern University and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Mike Elsby, University of Edinburgh
4:30 p.m.	Adjourn