Monday morning, June 26
Room: Salão Nobre
8.40 a.m.–9.00 a.m.
9.00 a.m.–9.30 a.m.
David Card (University of California Berkeley, USA)
José Luís Cardoso (President of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Portugal)
Pedro Teixeira (Secretary of State of Higher Education, Portugal)
9.30 a.m.–10.30 a.m.
Suresh Naidu (Columbia University, USA)
Discussant: Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia, Canada)
10.30 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Coffee-break
11.00 a.m.–12.00 a.m.
Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
Discussant: Sabien Dobbelaere (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12.00 a.m.–1.00 p.m.
"Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions"
Effrosyni Adamopoulou (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Discussant: Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain, Spain)
1.00 p.m.–2.30 p.m.
Free time for lunch
Monday afternoon, June 26
Room: Salão Nobre
2.30 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
"Collective bargaining for women: How unions can create female-friendly jobs"
Lorenzo Lagos (Brown University, USA)
Discussant: Laura Giuliano (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
3.30 p.m.–4.30 p.m.
"How collective bargaining shapes poverty: New evidence for developed countries"
Kevin Pineda-Hernández (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Discussant: Pedro Martins (Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal)
4.30 p.m.–5.00 p.m.
Coffee-break
5.00 p.m.–6.00 p.m.
Keynote address “Union wage effects: new evidence on an old question”
Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Introduced by: David Card (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Tuesday morning, June 27
Room: Sala das Sessões
9.10 a.m.–9.30 a.m.
9.30 a.m.–10.30 p.m.
"The effect of unions on workers and firms: Evidence from Germany"
Alice Kuegler (Central European University, Austria)
Discussant: Erling Barth (Institute for Social Research, Norway)
10.30 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Coffee-break
11.00 a.m.–12.00 a.m.
"Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: The case of Italian collective bargaining"
Bernardo Fanfani (University of Turin, Italy)
Discussant: Andrea Weber (Central European University, Austria)
12.00 a.m.–1.00 p.m.
"Wage cyclicality and collective bargaining"
Pedro Portugal (Bank of Portugal, Portugal)
Discussant: Ana Rute Cardoso (University of Lisbon, ICS, Portugal)
1.00 p.m.–2.30 p.m.
Free time for lunch
Tuesday afternoon, June 27
Room: Sala das Sessões
2.30 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
"Collective bargaining, worker compensation and firm performance"
Manudeep Bhuller (University of Oslo, Norway)
Discussant: Alex Bryson (University College London, UK)
3.30 p.m.–4.00 p.m.
Coffee-break
4.00 p.m.–5.30 p.m.
Round table discussion “Collective bargaining into the future”
Moderator: David Card (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Tito Boeri (Bocconi University, Italy)
Reinhard Naumann (ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
Anna Stansbury (MIT, USA)
Jelle Visser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
5.30 p.m.–5.45 p.m.
Closing Session
This conference is co-funded by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, under project 2022.01269.PTDC