Past Events

Immigration Reform in Californian Agriculture and the Tech Industry

June 7 @ 9:15 am - 3:15 pm

Heyns Room, The Faculty Club, Minor Lane
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

CA Studies Seminar Dinner: Susan Anderson

May 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

U.S. and State Estimates of Relative Teacher Pay with a Fun Discussion of CPS Data Issues

Sylvia Allegretto

May 15 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Cost of Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles

Kelly Lytle Hernández

May 14 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Showcase

May 7 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Multinational enforcement of labor law: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh’s apparel sector

Laura Boudreau, UC Berkeley

April 30 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Author Talk – Scott L. Cummings on Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port

Scott L. Cummings, Author

April 25 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act (with Carlos Avenancio-Leon)

Abhay Aneja, UC Berkeley

April 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

CA Studies Seminar Dinner: Tom Dalzell

April 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Spring 2019 Visitors Workshop

April 18 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Precarity Diverged: Social Capital, Occupational Attainment and Spatial Mobility of the Chinese Rural Migrants

Thomas Peng, UC Berkeley

April 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Future of Work: Myth, Reality, and What We Should Do About It

Paul Osterman, MIT Sloan School of Management

April 15 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Inter-Firm Contracting and Wages: Concepts, Trends, and New Directions for Research

Jessica Halpern-Finnerty, UC Berkeley

April 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment

Shelley Correll, Stanford University.

April 2 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Troubled Corporatism: Social Interventions in China’s Era of Public Procurement and Social Management

April 2 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Party’s Over: Former Communist Party Members in the Bay Area

Bob Cherny, San Francisco State University

March 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program

Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley

March 14 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

Peter Cole, Western Illinois University

March 12 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Room 370, Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon

David Webber, Boston University

March 12 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

From Coors to California: David Sickler and the New Working Class

David Sickler

February 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

CA Studies Seminar Dinner: Honoring Labor From the Union Iron Works to the Salesforce Tower: From Black and White Film to Digital Images

February 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

Kimberly Clausing, Reed College.

February 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Intersectional Histories, Overdetermined Fortunes: Understanding Mexican and US Domestic Worker Movements

Chris Tilly, University of California Los Angeles.

February 6 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

CA Studies Seminar Dinner: Rachel Brahinsky

Rachel Brahinsky, University of San Francisco

January 17

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Are Local Minimum Wages Too High, and How Could We Even Know?

Carl Nadler, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

December 11, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Immigration Policy in Japan and South Korea

December 7, 2018 @ 4:00 am - 5:00 pm

Ethnic Studies Conference Room, 554 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Showcase

December 5, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 2:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Inequality in Life and Death: Policy and Prospect

Berkeley Population Sciences

November 29, 2018 @ 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley,

The Effects of Compulsory Interest Arbitration on Disputes, Wages and Service Quality: Evidence From a Unique Natural Experiment in Canada

Chris Riddell, University of Waterloo

November 20, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Richard Walker, UC Berkeley

November 15, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison

Bruce Western, Columbia University.

November 14, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Race and Network in the Job Search Process

David Pedulla, Stanford University.

November 1, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

CA Studies Seminar Dinner: Diane North

October 16, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Impacts of minimum wages on single mothers

Anna Godøy, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

October 16, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

October 10, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

October 2, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Graduate Student Summit For Diversity in Economics

September 28, 2018 - September 29, 2018

The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States

Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using machine learning to estimate the impact of minimum wages on affected individuals

Doruk Cengiz, University of Massachusetts

September 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Labor in the Climate Transition: Charting the Roadmap for 2019 and Beyond

September 12, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:30 pm

The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States

Pros and Cons of Designing a Job Guarantee Program

Bill Spriggs, Howard University

September 5, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

IRLE Fall Open House Reception

August 28, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Seminar on Inclusive Economies for Cities and Regions

Chris Benner, UC Santa Cruz and Andy Pike, Newcastle University, UK

July 9, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Perceptions and Experiences of the Formerly Incarcerated with Fair Chance Employment Initiatives

Sandra Smith, IRLE

June 13, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Increasing Cal Grant Take Up Through Improved Communications; Administrative Data Linking

Elsa Augustine and Vikash Reddy, California Policy Lab

June 5, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Rebel Lawyer: Wayne Collins and the Defense of Japanese American Rights

Chuck Wollenberg, Author

May 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Richard Walker, UC Berkeley Geography

April 26, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Reflections on the End of the Safety Net as We Know It

Sheldon Danziger, Russell Sage Foundation

April 19, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Banatao Auditorium at UC Berkeley, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Vietnam War in Mexican America

Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Pomona College

April 18, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Politics At Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University

April 12, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

Katrinell Davis, Florida State University

April 12, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Jobs for Freedom/1400 Jobs Campaign

Danielle Mahones, UC Berkeley Labor Center and National Black Worker Center

April 4, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

IRLE Photo Exhibit and Spring Reception

March 20, 2018 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

From Braceros to H2-As: Discussing the History, Present, and Future of Agricultural Guestworker Programs

March 16, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St
Salinas, California 93901

Workshop: Employment Issues in Agriculture

March 14, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Regulating the Human Supply Chain

Jennifer Gordon, Fordham Law

March 13, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

What You Lose When You Lose Your Job: The Lasting Impacts of Unemployment

Jennie Brand, UCLA

March 1, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Working Together: How the Supreme Court divided the civil rights movement and labor leaders

Catherine Fisk, Berkeley Law

February 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Measuring Economic Performance as Well-Being (and Not Only Income)

Clair Brown, UC Berkeley Economics

January 31, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

In a Field of Patriarchy: Gender Politics and Freedom Dreams During the United Farm Worker Movement

Christian Paiz, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

January 29, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Author Talk: Richard Reeves on America’s Dream Hoarders

Richard Reeves, Brookings Institute

January 26, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Banatao Auditorium at UC Berkeley, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California’s Shore

Thomas Osborne, Santa Ana College

January 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

CWED: Celebrating a Decade of Minimum Wage Research

CWED co-chairs Michael Reich and Sylvia Allegretto

December 8, 2017

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Does California Fly Data-Blind?

Jesse Rothstein and Evan White, California Policy Lab

November 29, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Asian American Settlements and Suburban Development in Post-World War II Los Angeles

James Zarsadiaz, University of San Francisco

November 16, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Precarity and Dependence in the “Sharing” Economy

Juliet Schor, Boston College

November 16, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Breaking the Cycle: Improving Outcomes for California’s High Need, High Cost Population

November 7, 2017 @ 8:30 am - 6:30 pm

The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States

Author Talk – The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America

Rick Wartzman, The Drucker Institute

November 2, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Future of Work

Annette Bernhardt, The Labor Center

October 25, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Library Commons, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Gold Rush Stories: Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck

Gary Noy, Sierra College

October 19, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Beyond “Resistance”: A Bold Plan for Work With Dignity via a Federal Job Guarantee

Darrick Hamilton, The New School

October 19, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Long Ride: Film Screening & Director Talk

Valerie Lapin, Director

October 12, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

LeConte Hall at UC Berkeley, Room 4, Le Conte Hall

IRLE Working Group Meeting: From Braceros to H2A’s: Discussing the History, Present and Future of Agricultural Guestworker Programs in California

October 6, 2017 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Center for Latino Policy Research, 2547 Channing Way

Diversity in California’s Workforce: Leveraging Unions’ Role in the Labor Market to Increase Diversity in Good Jobs

Carol Zabin and Steven Pitts, The Labor Center

September 28, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Transnational Cooperation on Illicit Financial Flows out of Africa

Joel Odigie, Luckystar Miyandazi, Cloudine Bwesigye

September 25, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

2017 C.L. Dellums African American Leadership School

Steven C. Pitts, UC Berkeley Labor Center

September 16, 2017

Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City

Steve Early, author

September 14, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte: Book Talk with David Bacon

David Bacon, photographer

September 12, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

IRLE Fall Reception: Featuring Professor Daniel Schneider on Unstable Work Schedules in Retail

Daniel Schneider, UC Berkeley

September 7, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

What’s Next for Health Care in California?

Ken Jacobs and Laurel Lucia, UC Berkeley Labor Center

August 30, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The 2006 Immigration Protests: A Decade Later

May 5, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Survival of the Fittest: the Impact of the Minimum Wage on Restaurant Closures

Dara Lee Luca, Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, and Michael Luca, Professor at Harvard Business School

May 4, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Spring 2017 Visitors Workshop

IRLE Visiting Scholars and Visiting Student Researchers

April 27, 2017 @ 10:30 am - 3:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Absence, Substitutability and Productivity. Evidence from Teachers

Asma Benhenda, PhD Student, Paris School of Economics and IRLE Visiting Scholar

April 19, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence From the Golden Era of Upward Mobility

Lowell Taylor, Professor of Economics at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University

April 17, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Changing World of Work, Societal Linkages, and Political Parties in Latin America: IRLE Dissertation Fellow Talk

Mathias Poertner, IRLE Dissertation Fellow, PhD Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley

April 12, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Dynamics of Household Economic Security Around A Birth

Alexandra Stanczyk, Postdoctoral Scholar at the School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

April 5, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Indigenous Mexican Farmworker Youth: New Research In Development

Seth Holmes, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Public Health, UC Berkeley

March 22, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada and the United States

Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal

March 8, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

223 Moses Hall, 223 Moses Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Clair Brown, UC Berkeley Department of Economics

March 2, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

820 Barrows Hall, Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley, 820 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Taking A Pass: How Jobs Stay Gender-Segregated

Ming Leung, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

February 15, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The State of the Early Childhood Educator Workforce: Misaligned Expectations, Earnings and Policies

Marcy Whitebook and Caitlin McLean, CSCCE, UC Berkeley

February 8, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Spatialized ethno-racial inequality and labor market outcomes in Los Angeles

Paul Ong, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

January 25, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese: How Software Engineers work; how they feel about it; and how they are rewarded. A cross-national survey.

Yoshi Nakata, Professor at Doshisha University, Graduate School of Policy Management in Japan.

January 24, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Jane F. McAlevey

January 11, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

2016 Visiting Scholar Workshop

December 5, 2016 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Effect of the EITC in the District of Columbia on Poverty and Income

Bradley Hardy, School of Public Affairs, American University

November 30, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Expansion or Diversion? New Universities and Enrollment Choices in California

Patrick Lapid, Economics, UC Berkeley

November 16, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century

November 15, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Seeing Like a Market

Marion Fourcade, Sociology, UC Berkeley

November 9, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Coordinated leisure and energy policy

Solomon Hsiang, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

October 26, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

Reference Pricing in the Case of Screening Colonoscopies

Marion Aouad, Economics, UC Berkeley

October 19, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The effects of minimum wages on employment: using a bunching estimator

Arindrjait Dube, UMass Amherst

October 12, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 United States

The Pass-through of Minimum Wages into US Retail Prices: Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data

Claire Montialoux, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley

October 5, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Labor Center Seminar – The State of Labor Movement in Afghanistan, a Volatile Past and a Promising Future

Nangyalai Attal, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley

October 3, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

(Re-)Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multiscalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns

Katy Fox-Hodess, Sociology, UC Berkeley

September 21, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Fully Digitized Labor Sociology for the Big Screen

Jamie McCallum, IRLE former visiting scholar

September 16, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Layoff Rules, the Cost of Job Loss, and Asymmetric Employer Learning

Jeff Sorensen, Economics, UC Berkeley

September 14, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Impact of a Negative Labor Demand Shock on Fertility – Evidence from the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Hannah Liepman, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley

August 31, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Conference on the Causes of Wage Stagnation

August 26, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Evolution and Current State of Work Organization Reform at US Auto Industry: A perspective from Japanese automakers

Kenichi Shinohara, Kyoto Sangyo University

June 1, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Unpredictable Schedules and Worker and Family Wellbeing

Daniel Schneider, Sociology, UC Berkeley

April 27, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Economics of a $15 Minimum Wage

Michael Reich, Economics, UC Berkeley

April 20, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Transformation of Postal Sector Jobs in Europe

Christoph Hermann, Sociology, UC Berkeley

April 6, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Wage Shocks and the Technological Substitution of Low-Wage Workers

Brian Phelan, Economics, DePaul University

March 2, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Social Science Research Perspectives on Implications of Climate Policies for Labour and Employment

Heike Jacobsen, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

February 24, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Micro and Macro of Disappearing Routine Jobs: A Flows Approach

Chris Nekarda, Federal Reserve

February 10, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Domestic Outsourcing in the US: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality

Annette Bernhardt, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley Rose Batt, ILR School, Cornell University

December 2, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Haste or Waste: Within-Physician Marginal Returns to Health Care

David Silver, Economics, UC Berkeley

November 18, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Inequality in Networked Labor Markets

Carl Nadler, Economics, UC Berkeley

November 4, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Labor Issues In California and National Climate Policy

Betony Jones and Carol Zabin, Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy and Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley

October 28, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Secure Choice” State Retirement Savings Initiatives: Adventures in Behavioral Finance and Regulatory Politics

Nari Rhee, Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley

October 14, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Effects of Minimum Wages on Prices in San Jose

Michael Reich, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley Sylvia Allegretto, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, IRLE, UC Berkeley

October 7, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Impact of Disability Insurance on Beneficiaries’ Earnings: Is the Income Effect Large?

Alexander Gelber, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

September 30, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Interest Groups in City Politics

Sarah Anzia, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

September 16, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

Heather Boushey, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

September 2, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Long-Term Impacts of the Great Recession across Space: Worker-Level Evidence of Hysteresis

Danny Yagan, Economics, UC Berkeley

August 26, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Migrant Farmworker Injury: Slow Death and Statistical Events

Seth Holmes, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

April 20, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

How an Interdisciplinary View of Healthy Workplaces is Greater than the Sum of the Parts

Cristina Banks, Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business, Management of Organizations Group (MORS)

April 13, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Sixty-five Years of National Minimum Wage: Assessing the French Experience

Jerome Gautie, Visiting Scholar, Professor of Economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

April 6, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment: A Factor Model Approach

Evan Totty, Doctoral student, Economics, Purdue University

March 30, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Building Worker Power

Bob King, Former President, UAW; Visiting Researcher IRLE and Center for Latin American Studies

March 9, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Reducing Inequality in a Sustainable World

March 5, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Are Fair Wages Common Sense: Exploring Corporate Living Wage Programs

February 24, 2015 @ 12:30 am - 1:30 pm

For love or money? Gender differences in how one approaches getting a job

Ming Leung, Assitant Professor, Haas

February 23, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Rethinking the Sources of Inequality of Income and Wealth

Joe Stiglitz, American economist, Professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.

February 9, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm