Schedule

December 19th, Casona de las Condes Campus, UNAB

Building C6, room 401

09:30

Registration

09:50

Welcome - Opening remarks

TBA

10:00

Monopsony Power and Labor Informality in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

Manuel Estefan (University of Notre Dame)

Break

11:30

Labor-Market Concentration and Workers Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Alvaro García (U de los Andes, Chile)

12:30

Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers

Suresh Naidu (Columbia) - keynote

Lunch 13:30 - 15:00

15:00

Earnings Inequality in Production Networks

Federico Huneeus (Central Bank of Chile)

16:00

On the Inefficiency of Non-Competes in Low-Wage Labor Markets

Tristan Potter (Drexel University)

Break

17:30

Oligopsony Labor Market Power and Workers’ outside Option

Felipe Balmaceda (Universidad Andres Bello)

Dinner 20:00