In September, CenTax hosted a two-day academic workshop bringing together researchers from across the world to explore how firms respond to labour supply shocks.

Across a series of insightful presentations, participants shared empirical work on worker outcomes, firm performance and adjustment, and the broader economic implications of policy changes.

Highlights from the Workshop

The programme featured a series of insightful presentations, including:

  • Worker responses to immigration across firms: Evidence from Colombia – Lukas Delgado-Prieto
  • Firm-level effects of tax-induced high-skilled migration – Giuseppe Ippedico
  • Parental leave from the firm’s perspective – Gozde Corekcioglu
  • The economic consequences of retirement: How firms respond when workers retire – Camilla Skovbo Christensen
  • Workplace spillovers and welfare implications of delaying retirements – Irene Ferrari
  • The labour supply curve is upward sloping: The effects of immigrant-induced demand shocks – Andreas Kostøl
  • Minding your business or your child? Motherhood and the entrepreneurship gap – Valentina Rutigliano
  • Childbirth and firm performance: Evidence from Norwegian entrepreneurs –Luigi Pistaferri
  • Cross-border labour outflows, turnover, and firm adjustment – Emanuele Dicarlo
  • Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance – Bernhard Schmidpeter
  • Changing the board game: Horizontal spillovers of gender quotas – Luana Zaccaria
  • How do firms respond to unions? – Samuel Dodini

The workshop provided an invaluable opportunity for researchers to exchange ideas and  discuss preliminary findings. The sessions reflected CenTax’s mission to foster rigorous, policy-relevant research.

We thank all presenters and participants for their thoughtful contributions and engaging discussions.