MILLS Workshop 2008

“Inequality and Polarization of Income and Jobs”

Friday, 13th June 2008

Dipartimento di Economia Politica
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Sala del Consiglio – III piano
Edificio U6
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1
Milan

PROGRAMME

9:30 – 11:00

Maarten Goos (University of Leuven)
“Technological Change and Recent Changes in the Structure of Jobs: Evidence for 15 EU Countries” (with Alan Manning and Anna Salomons)
Discussant: Luca Stanca

11:00 – 12:30

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Steve Machin (UCL)
“Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability” (with Mirko Draca and John Van
Reenen)
Discussant: Claudio Lucifora

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 – 14:45

Marco Leonardi (Università Statale di Milano)
“Product demand shifts and wage inequality”
Discussant: Tito Boeri

14:45 – 15:15 COFFEE BREAK

15:15 – 16:30

Francesca Mazzolari (University of California Irvine)
“Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets” (con Giuseppe Ragusa)
Discussant: Giovanni Pica