“Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop”, 28-29 June 2024, Ortygia Business School, Siracusa (Italy).

The workshop, now at its 4th edition, seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new
research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organization,
international trade, labor economics, and migration.
This year’s workshop will be held on 28-29 June 2024 at the Ortygia Business School in
Siracusa, Italy, and is planned as an in-person event.

 

Workshop Program

Day 1 – Friday, 28 June 2024

Morning

Andre Groeger, Barcelona School of Economics on “Misallocation and Shocks: Evidence from Vietnamese Villages” (joint with Luis E. Rojas, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Yanos Zylberberg) 

• Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University

 

Alessandro Ruggieri, Cunef Universidad on “Firms, Policies, Informality, and the Labor Market” (joint with Camila Cisnernos)                                                                                                           

• Discussant: Pierre Luis Vézina, King’s College London

 

Anna Vitali, Dartmouth College on “Skill-capital Complementarities and the Effectiveness of Firm Training Programs” (joint with Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul, Ottavia Anna Veroux)                   

• Discussant: Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI 

 

Jiayue Zhang, Brown University on “Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana” (joint with Jamie McCasland, Morgan Hardy)               

• Discussant: Camila Cisneros, University of Tübingen

 

Afternoon

Keynote: Paula Bustos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra on “Industrialization without Innovation” (joint with with Juanma Castro Vincenzi, Joan Monras and Jacopo Ponticelli)

 

Amrita Dhillon, King’s College London on “Social Networks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform” (joint with Farzana Afridi, Sanchari Roy, Nikita Sangwan)

• Discussant: Morgan Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi 

 

Yogita Shamdasani, National University of Singapore on “Habit Formation in Labor Supply” (joint with Luisa Cefala, Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield)                                                               

• Discussant: Christian Meyer, University of Oxford 

 

Day 2 – Saturday, 29 June 2024

Morning

Alejandro Estefan, University of Notre Dame on “Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban” (joint with Roberto Gerhard, Joseph P. Kaboski, Illenin O. Kondo, Wei Qian) 

• Discussant: Giorgio Presidente, Bocconi University

 

Julia Cajal-Grossi, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) on “Workers in Space: Evidence from Urban Bangladesh” (joint with Gabriel Kreindler)                                                                             

• Discussant: Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Ignacio Marra de Artinano, Universite Libre de Bruxelles on “The Value of Organic Certifications”
(joint with Gabriel Scattolo, Christian Volpe Martincus, Lucas Zavala)                                   

• Discussant: Davide Del Prete, University of Naples Parthenope

 

Niclas Moneke, University of Oxford on “Female Wage Labour and Fertility: Evidence from the Cut-Flower Industry in Kenya” (joint with Menna Bishop, Celine Zipfel)                                       

• Discussant: Paolo Falco, University of Copenhagen

 

 

The Organizing Committee

Francesco AMODIO, McGill University
Michele DI MAIO, Sapienza University of Rome
Mariapia MENDOLA, University of Milan Bicocca and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
Marco SANFILIPPO, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

Organized by: 

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano and Mont^2  Econ Lab.