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The IAB Special Lecture Series 2023 / 2024
hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
CONTENT
The IAB Special Lecture Series invites outstanding international researchers across the Social Sciences to present their current work. Guest lecturers are selected on exellent academic merit and typically have made significant contributions to their respective fields and continue to actively shape internationale research agendas. The IAB Special Lecture Series aims to provide a unique opportunity to the IAB researchers as well as researchers from other research entities to discurss the work and share their expertise with the speaker during the presentation, and to receive feedback on their own research projects during individual talks with the speaker.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The IAB Special Lecture Series will be held at the IAB, Regensburger Str. 100, 90478 Nuremberg.
ABSTRACTS OF THE SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES 2023 / 2024

Katherine S. Newmann is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs of the University of California and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Her research ranges from technical education and apprenticeship, to the sociological study of the working poor in America’s urban centers, middle class economic insecurity under the brunt of recession, and school violence on a mass scale. She has written on the consequences of globalization for youth in Western Europe, Japan, South Africa and the US, on the impact of regressive taxation on the poor, and on the history of American political opinion on the role of government intervention. She recently published her new book „Moving the Needle. What Tight Labor Markets do fort he Poor, https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379107/moving-the-needle. More information can be found at: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-affairs/immediate-office-staff/Bios/katherine-s-newman.html

Abstract: "Empirical economics papers report standard errors to take into account uncertainty associated with sampling variation but rarely consider non-sampling variation from researcher choices about measurement of key variables, functional form choice, identification strategy, and data set. In this paper, we review the literature on alternative methods for taking account of non-sampling variability, develop a typology of sources of non-sampling variation, and conduct an empirical exercise in which we estimate the relative and absolute importance of different types of non-sampling variation. The empirical exercise proceeds in the context of the literature that seeks to estimate the causal effect of college quality on educational and labor market outcomes."

Lecture: Climate Change, Migration, and Inequality
» 05 February 2024, 10.00 am - 11.30 am - Gabriela Spanghero Lotta
Gabriela Spanghero Lotta is a Professor of Public Administration and Government at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Lecture: "Navigating Vulnerabilities: Exploring Trust Dynamics in Citizens-State Interactions for Access to Public Services"
This lecture delves into the multifaceted dynamics of the state-citizen relationship within the realm of service delivery in vulnerable contexts, with a specific focus on the crucial roles played by health workers, teachers, and social workers. Examining these interactions against the backdrop of high vulnerabilities, characterized by factors such as limited trust, resource constraints, perceived lack of state legitimacy, and pervasive inequalities, our discussion aims to uncover the nuanced impact of contextual challenges on encounters between citizens and frontline service providers. Drawing on various research studies concerning frontline workers in Brazil, we will explore the underlying mechanisms that either reduce or reproduce existing inequalities when implementing policies in contexts of high vulnerabilities.
» 20 June 2024 - Giovanni Peri
David Autor is Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program and the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019, the Society for Progress Medal in 2021—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. In 2020, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.” In a 2019 article, the Economist magazine labeled him as “The academic voice of the American worker.” Later that same year, and with equal justification, he was christened “Twerpy MIT Economist” by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight in a segment on automation and employment.
LOCAL ORGANIZERS
- Claudia Globisch (IAB, University of Erlangen),
- Simon Janssen (IAB),
- Yuliya Kosyakova (IAB, University of Bamberg)
- Adrian Lerche (IAB)
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS AT THE SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES
Prof. Andrea Weber (Central European University)
Prof. Matthew Desmond (Princeton University)
Prof. Claudia Buchmann (Ohio State University)
Prof. Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For any questions refer to IAB.Special-Lecture@iab.de