Dear colleagues, we cordially invite you to our online research seminar April 28, 2021, 4pm, zoom Florian Hoffmann (University of British Columbia) https://fhoffmann.arts.ubc.ca/ "The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles: Causal Evidence from the German Unification“ Florian is Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics and received the Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2010. His research interests are in the determinants of life-cycle earnings and career dynamics, dynamic discrete choice models of human capital formation, estimation of equilibrium search models, and the importance of student-instructor interactions for academic achievement on the post-secondary education level. He discusses his recent publication with David Lee and Thomas Lemieux in the JEP (“Growing income inequality in the United States and other advanced economies“, 2020) in this AEA research highlight, https://www.aeaweb.org/research/income-inequality-capital-labor-us Selected publications: * Caines, Colin, Florian Hoffmann, and Gueorgui Kambourov. 2017. “Complex-Task Biased Technological Change and the Labor Market.” Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 25, pp. 298-319 * Hoffmann, Florian, and Thomas Lemieux. 2016. “The Labor Market Impacts of the Great Recession: The Cases of US, Canada and Germany.” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 34(S1), pp. 95-139. * Fairlie, Rob, Hoffmann, Florian, and Philip Oreopoulos. 2014. “A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom.” American Economic Review, vol. 104(8), pp. 2567-2591. Please register at https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/onlin... <https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-research-seminar/> for the zoom link. With best regards, René Böheim -- PD René Böheim, PhD Department of Economics JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz, Österreich P +43-732-2468-7369 www.econ.jku.at/boeheim <http://www.econ.jku.at/boeheim> Research: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html <http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbh15.html>