Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE)

?? Meet Our Dissertation Fellows Economics doctoral candidate Richard Jin analyzes how the citywide presence of college alumni networks impacts geographic mobility. Specifically, he examines whether college-educated workers are more likely to remain in and move to cities that feature a higher concentration of alumni from their alma maters and how these networks influence local labor markets. Learn more about IRLE's dissertation fellows: https://lnkd.in/gRg6-86y

?? Upcoming Event: New Directions in the Study of Labor Join us for an interdisciplinary panel featuring UC Berkeley graduate students discussing the evolving dynamics of work, management, and labor organization. Panelists: ?? William Darwall (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), on the politics and political economy of past, present, and future regimes of workplace management. ?? Kristy K. (Economics), on how changes in retirement benefits affect labor supply and workforce composition. ?? Vera Parra (Sociology), on the recent history of auto industry organizing drives, both in the US and Mexico.? ?? Moderator: John Logan, Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and expert on the anti-union industry and legislation in the U.S. ?? Date: Monday, December 2, 2024 ?? Time: 12:00-1:30pm ?? Location: 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley ??? Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gfHYE6tm Organized by Social Science Matrix and co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE), UC Berkeley Labor Center, and the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley - School of Law Accessibility: If you require accommodations for effective communication (e.g., ASL interpreting, CART captioning) or have questions about campus mobility access, please contact Chuck Kapelke at [email protected] as soon as possible.

?? Join us tomorrow for our Weekly Visiting Scholar Seminar! Davi Bhering Gusm?o (Paris School of Economics) will present a project titled "Equity vs Efficiency of Indirect Taxes: Evidence from a Large VAT Cut in India" in this week's IRLE visiting scholars seminar. And yes, there will be pizza! ?? ?? Wednesday, Noon ?? IRLE, 2521 Channing Way Check out the full seminar schedule: [link] ABSTRACT Should countries with constrained income taxation use differentiated commodity taxes for redistribution? This paper quantifies the equity-efficiency trade-off of indirect taxation in India. We estimate behavioral responses to the Value-Added-Tax following a sudden rate cut from 28\% to 18\% for many products, using granular administrative data?and a difference in differences design. We find that the 10p.p. tax cut led to a 5p.p. rise in reported sales; the tax reduction was partially?passed-through to consumers via lower prices; and the sales of substitute products did not change, suggesting limited tax evasion via re-labelling. These results challenge the common view on differentiated commodity taxes: taxing luxury goods at higher rates might achieve distributional goals at moderate efficiency costs, and complement suboptimal income taxation.

Join Electronic Privacy Information Center, California Lawyers Association, and expert panelists like Annette Bernhardt, Director of the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and Samantha Gordon, Chief Program Officer at TechEquity on 11/21 to discuss California Privacy Protection Agency's proposed AI regulations. https://lnkd.in/eD9sXm24

Free event open to the public. Join us for a conversation with Marshall Ganz, whose new book is both a practical guide on how to reclaim democratic power and an inspiring call for collective organizing as an essential driver of democracy. Steven Pitts will moderate!

We're proud to support the work of emerging Berkeley scholars through our research fellowship and awards programs. Check out timely, newly-published research from former dissertation fellow and sociolology grad student Luis Tenorio. His research lies at the intersection of international migration, Latina/o sociology, and gender and sexuality and uses qualitative methods to analyze how immigrants are incorporated into U.S. society and, in this process, how they experience social transformations. - Work after Lawful Status: Formerly Undocumented Immigrants’ Gendered Relational Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims-Making (Law and Society Association): https://lnkd.in/g6JSigfZ - Legal Care Work: Emotion and Care Work in Lawyering with Unaccompanied Minors ( Sussex Centre for Migration Research & Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Studies): https://lnkd.in/gz6ivPnS

Industrial Relations: A Journal of of Economy and Society invites submissions for a special issue on Gender and Industrial Relations. This special issue, guest edited by Rae Cooper, Jennifer Tomlinson, Laura Good and Chris F. Wright, aims to explore the intersections of gender with industrial relations and to highlight both established and under-explored areas of research that connect these two critical dimensions of work and employment. Extended abstracts are due by Monday, April 14, 2025. Review the full call for papers: https://lnkd.in/gMvpG5cZ

?? Join us tomorrow for our Weekly Visiting Scholar Seminar! David Card (UC Berkeley) will present a project titled "Targeted Acceleration in Middle School Math: Impacts on College Entry, Degree Completion, and STEM" in this week's IRLE visiting scholars seminar. And yes, there will be pizza! ?? ?? Wednesday, Noon ?? IRLE, 2521 Channing Way Check out the full seminar schedule: https://lnkd.in/gE4Pjeep ABSTRACT: The traditional course sequence for math in middle and high school leaves many students ill-prepared to enter selective engineering and science programs. Attempts in several states to push all students through an accelerated curriculum starting in middle school have faltered; the latest Common Core curriculum postpones the teaching of algebra until 9th grade. We study a targeted multi-year accelerated curriculum that enables students to finish Algebra I and Geometry before high school. Entry to the program is based on 5th-grade scores in the statewide math test, with a cutoff at the 80th percentile, enabling a highly credible regression discontinuity analysis of the impacts of the program. Following students for 13 years after entry, we show that the accelerated curriculum has significant positive effects on the probabilities that marginally eligible girls enter selective colleges, complete a bachelor’s degree within 5 years, and graduate in STEM or business/economics. The share of girls with a degree in STEM nearly doubles (from 6% to 11%), with a comparable effect on degrees in business and economics. In contrast, we find negligible effects on boys, implying that the accelerated program brings girls up to the level of similar-scoring boys in completion of degrees in the most highly-paid fields.

?? Join us tomorrow for our Weekly Visiting Scholar Seminar! Romaine Loubes (Paris School of Economics) will present a project titled "Trade-Displaced or Trade-Stuck? How Trade Shocks Affect the Self-Employed" in this week's IRLE visiting scholars seminar. And yes, there will be pizza! ?? ?? Wednesday, Noon ?? IRLE, 2521 Channing Way Check out the full seminar schedule: https://lnkd.in/gE4Pjeep

We are delighted to announce that Eliza Forsythe University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has joined the editorial board of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Society and Economics as an associate editor. Don't miss the latest issue of the journal: https://lnkd.in/gQ5idQ7D