Labour markets in the digital era

Welcome address

Luis de Guindos, Vice-President, European Central Bank and CEPR

Keynote speech “Individual consequences of occupational decline”

Guy Michaels, London School of Economics and CEPR

together with Per-Anders Edin, Uppsala University and CEPR; Tiernan Evans, London School of Economics; Georg Graetz, Uppsala University; Sofia Hernnäs, Uppsala University

Session I – Wages

Chair: Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and CEPR

The innovation premium to low-skill jobs

• Antonin Bergeaud*, Banque de France and CEPR
• Philippe Aghion, Collège de France and London School of Economics
• Richard Blundell, University College London and CEPR
• Rachel Griffith, University of Manchester and CEPR

Discussant: Juan Francisco Jimeno, Banco de España and CEPR

Task prices, skill selection and wage inequality

• Felix Schran*, University of Bonn
• Michael J. Böhm, University of Bonn
• Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, University of Bonn

Discussant: Ernesto Villanueva, Banco de España

Session II: Biased technological change

Chair: Wolfgang Modery, European Central Bank

Biased technological change and employment reallocation

• Christian Siegel*, University of Kent
• Zsofia L. Barany, Sciences Po and CEPR

Discussant: Sang Yoon Lee, Queen Mary University of London

Job polarization, skill mismatch and the Great Recession

Riccardo Zago, New York University

Discussant: Marcel Jansen, Autonomous University of Madrid

Skill-biased technological change within and across firms

• Seth Gordon Benzell*, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
• Guillermo Lagarda, Boston University and Inter-American Development Bank
• Daniel Rock, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and MIT Sloan School of Management

Discussant:Alessio Moro, University of Cagliari and CEPR

Hours of work polarisation in the EU

• Athene Laws*, University of Cambridge
• António Dias Da Silva, European Central Bank
• Filippos Petroulakis, European Central Bank

Discussant: Emilie Rademakers, KU Leuven

Registration and coffee

Session III – Robots

Chair: Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank

From secular stagnation to robocalypse? Implications for demographic and technological changes

• Juan Francisco Jimeno*, Banco de España and CEPR
• Henrique S. Basso, Banco de España

Discussant: Mirko Abbritti, University of Navarra

Adjusting to robots: worker-level evidence

• Nicole Woessner*, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• Wolfgang Dauth, University of Würzburg
• Sebastian Findeisen, University of Mannheim
• Jens Suedekum, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Discussant: Guillermo Lagarda, Boston University and Inter-American Development Bank

The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: a local labour market approach

• Georgios Petropoulos*, Bruegel
• Francesco Chiacchio, Bruegel
• David Pichler, Bruegel

Chair: Eliana Viviano, Banca d’ Italia

Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy

• Nikhil Datta*, University College London and London School of Economics
• Giulia Giupponi and CEPR, London School of Economics
• Stephen Machin, London School of Economics and CEPR

Discussant: Antonio Dias Da Silva, European Central Bank