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)

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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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. 🧵