2/2 We invite submissions for a one-day workshop exploring how employment patterns, wage structures, and labour market institutions are evolving in the 21st century.
🔗 Submit your paper by September 1, 2025

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Call for Papers – Workshop on Employment Dynamics and Wage Structures in the 21st Century: Bridging Microdata and Policy
📌 Panmure House, Edinburgh 
🧷Keynote speakers: John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland) and Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University)

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Do coworkers taking parental leave influence your own decision to take it?

In a @cesifo.org new working paper with A. Casarico, @edoardodiporto.bsky.social & J. Kopinska, we find: yes, they do.

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Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data We investigate compensation policies in family and non-family firms using a novel employer-employee matched dataset comprising nearly the universe of Italian in

4/ FFs play a key role in wage inequality—offering fewer opportunities & lower wages to workers they employ. Want the details? Read the full study here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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3/ Why? FFs prioritize "control" over delegation, impacting productivity & career paths. CEO deaths reveal this: FF productivity drops only if the CEO is from the controlling family.

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2/ FFs create a "glass ceiling":
Fewer promotions
Smaller salary increases
This hits high earners hardest, limiting career growth compared to non-family firms (NFFs).

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1/ 📢 How do family-owned firms (FFs) affect wages? My research with M.Pagano, V. Pezone, R. Saggio and F. Schivardi on 900k Italian firms & 20M workers finds FFs pay 10% lower wages on average—even after accounting for productivity & worker skills. Here’s why. 🧵

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