Dear colleagues,

in the name of the Department of Economics, JKU Linz, I cordially invite you to our research seminar:

13th of October, 2021, 5.15-6.15pm, via Zoom

Isaac Sorkin (Stanford)
"The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality" (joint with Melanie Wallskog)

Isaac Sorking is Assistant Professor of Economics at Standford. Previous appointments include research positions with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Brookings Institution, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a recipient of the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics (https://sloan.org/fellowships/2021-Fellows).

Selected publications:
* Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How (with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Henry Swift), American Economic Review, 2020.
* Reconsidering the Consequences of Worker Displacements: Firm versus Worker Perspective (with Aaron Flaaen and Matthew D. Shapiro), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019.
* Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018.
* Are There Long-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage?. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015.

You may find the seminar schedule at https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/economics-research-seminar-1/

The Zoom invitation will be sent to you on the day of the seminar, only to registered participants. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vf3bbsIG_a8vfaAKUL6yHYxgbpnjL1-R9OUTOC3UR2U/edit?usp=drive_web

With best regards,
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PD René Böheim, PhD
Department of Economics