Workshop in Labor Economics: WEI IV in Uppsala on 4 – 5.9.2026
The fourth Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI IV) will be organized in Uppsala, Sweden, on September 4 – 5, 2026. The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Simon Jäger and Anna Salomons as keynote speakers, and Lena Hensvik and Alexander Willén as invited speakers.
In the call for papers, 123 research papers were received – thank you for excellent submissions! The tentative program has been published.
Since 2017, we have organized a set of workshops focusing on “core” labor economics issues (wages, employment, inequality). We have perceived the series as a great success and have consistently had to reject many excellent submissions. In response to popular demand, we are therefore pleased to announce the 4th workshop in this series. Previous editions were held in Helsinki, but this time we are relocating to our other academic home in Uppsala, Sweden.
The workshop will take place in central Uppsala on September 4-5, 2026. We are honoured to have two outstanding keynotes: Simon Jäger and Anna Salomons. In addition, we have already secured two exciting invited speakers: Lena Hensvik and Alexander Willén.
The workshop venue is Clarion Hotel Gillet in Uppsala. Address: Dragarbrunnsgatan 23, Uppsala.
The program will combine a set of longer presentations with sessions of shorter, but uninterrupted, 7-minute presentations—which have been very popular in the past—alongside the keynote lectures. Research papers focus on wages, employment, and/or inequality, and we always make room for a set of papers on collective agreements. The workshop will feature a mix of junior and senior presenters.
We will reimburse accommodation and travel within Europe for all accepted presenters, conditional on participation for the full duration of the two-day workshop.
Tentative program
| Friday 4.9.2026 | |
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| 09:45 – 09:55 | Opening Words |
| 09:55 – 10:55 | Keynote I – Chair Oskar Nordström Skans Anna Salomons: TBA |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | Break |
| 11:10 – 12:30 | Flash talks 1 – Chair: Peter Fredriksson Marc Riudavets Barcons: The Interaction between Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: Explaining Wage Spillovers David Zentler-Munro: The Effects of Minimum Wages on Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Germany Christian Lundqvist: Workplace Influence on Union Membership Tuomo Virkola: Pay Transparency, Wage Setting, and Worker Sorting Martin Häggkvist: Surviving A Layoff: Search And Reallocation After Downsizing Oona Tuominen: The Consequences of Labor Demand Shocks Across Countries |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Session I – Chair: Ulrika Ahrsjö Mirjam Wentzel: Firms’ Internal and External Labor Adjustments Lena Hensvik: TBA |
| 14:50- 15:05 | Break |
| 15:05 – 16:25 | Session II – Chair: Olof Åslund Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz: When Tight Labor Markets Don’t Raise Wages: Firms’ Beliefs About Hiring Henry Redondo: Quasi-Random Matches: Evidence from Dual Labor Markets |
| 16:25 – 16:45 | Break |
| 16:45 – 18:00 | Flash talks 2 – Chair: Lena Hensvik Marie-Renée Andreescu: Do you need an extra applicant? Evidence from quasi-random caseworker assignment Annika Nivala: Making Employers: The Effects of Supporting First Hires in a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment Joakim Tåg: Family Ties, Corporate Power and Workers’ Careers Atte Pudas: Having It All? Gender Differences in the Returns and Trade-Offs of Inventor Careers Yoko Okuyama: Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap Roman Klimke: Wage Regulation and Labor Supply in Long-Term Care: Evidence from Germany’s 2022 Wage Mandate Reform |
| Dinner (by invitation only) |
| Saturday 5.9.2026 | |
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| 09:00 – 10:20 | Session III – Chair: Andrei Gorshkov Peter Fredriksson: Unemployment Insurance and Worker Selection into Unemployment Olivia Masi: Fast-Track to Family? Evidence from the G8 High School Reform in Germany |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 – 12:00 | Flash talks 3 – Chair: Arizo Karimi Toni Juuti: Public vs Private Provision of Services Christina Bratu: Inside Opportunities and the Career Trajectories of Marginal Workers Casey McQuillan: The Benefits of Unemployment Insurance for Marginally Attached Workers Jonas Fluchtman: The Graying Job Ladder: The Role of Ageing for Reallocation and Growth Katarina Kuske: Co-Parenting and Careers after Divorce Ciprian Domnisoru: The role of firms in shaping the work, study, and graduation choices of student employees |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Keynote II – Chair: Tuomas Kosonen Simon Jäger: TBA |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Break |
| 14:20 – 15:40 | Session IV – Chair: Erika Povea Ines Helm: Workplace Heterogeneity in Wage Growth Alexander Willén: TBA |
| 15:45 | Adjourn |
Organizers
Tuomas Kosonen, VATT, FIT
Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University
The workshop is organized by the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and AISCAF at Uppsala University and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research, VATT Institute for Economic Research, in Helsinki, with generous support from Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser.
Contact
Contact in administrative issues (re: speakers’ travel, accommodation, and reimbursements): Administrator Viivi Lissåker, viivi.lissaker@nek.uu.se
Contact regarding the programme: fit.events@tuni.fi, or directly to organisers.
