Venice Summer Institute 2022: The Organization and the Geography of Work in the Post-Pandemic Economy
San Servolo, Venice, Italy
Scientific Organizers: Professor Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury and Professor Oliver Falck
The Covid-19 shock has rattled the world economy, disrupting traditional work arrangement at an unprecedented scale. This workshop asks to what extent work is persistently reorganized in the post-pandemic economy and explores the consequences of these adjustments. Will remote, hybrid and work-from-anywhere arrangements become an integral part of firms and industries globally? Does the post-pandemic economy perform better or worse with respect to productivity, job satisfaction, regional, gender and social inequality? Will work-from-anywhere change the geography of work, and alter migration and return migration flows and the global distribution of talent? We look forward to bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions on these timely questions.
Keynote speakers:
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Harvard Business School
Abigail Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
The conference will close with a virtual discussion with Richard Florida (Rotman School of Management) on the topic of Global Trends and Shifts in the Global Economy in a Post-Pandemic World.
Program
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08:45 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction 09:00 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture I:
Work-from-anywhere: The Changing Geography of Work (Chair: Oliver Falck)
RAJ CHOUDHURY (Harvard Business School)10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
Session 1: The Geography of Remote Work (Chair: Oliver Falck) 10:30 – 11:05
The Geography of Remote Work
LUKAS ALTHOFF (Princeton University), Fabian Eckert, Conor Walsh, and Sharat Ganapati11:05 – 11:40 The Covid-19 Shock and the New Geography of Consumption
SIMON KRAUSE (ifo Institute), Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Carla Krolage, Sebastian Wichert11:40 – 12:00 Short Break Session 2: Remote Work: Evidence from OJV (Chair: Raj Choudhury) 12:00 – 12:35
The Covid-19 Shock and the Future of Working from Home: Evidence from Job Vacancy Postings in Germany
JEAN VICTOR ALIPOUR (ifo Institute), Christina Langer, and Layla O´Kane12:35 – 13:10 The Spread of Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Countries
PETER LAMBERT (London School of Economics), Stephen Hansen, Nick Bloom, Steven Davis, Raffaella Sadun, and Bledi Taska13:10 – 14:30
Lunch Break
Session 3: Remote Work: International Comparisons (Chair: Raj Choudhury) 15:00 – 15:35
Working from Home Around the World
PABLO ZARATE (Universidad de San Andrés), Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nick Bloom, Steven Davis, and Mathias Dolls15:35 – 16:10 The Impact of ICT on Working from Home: Evidence from EU Countries
VAHAGN JERBASHIAN (Universitat de Barcelona), Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi16:10 – 16:40
Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:40
Keynote Lecture II:
Alternative Work Arrangements & Inequality (Chair: Oliver Falck)
ABIGAIL ADAMS-PRASSL (University of Oxford)19:30
Conference Dinner (San Servolo)
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Session 4: Impacts of WfH on Workers and Firms (Chair: Raj Choudhury) 09:10 – 09:45
Working from Home and Worker Productivity Over the Covid-19 Pandemic
BEN ETHERIDGE (University of Essex)09:45 – 10:20 Does Working from Home Increase Job Satisfaction and Retention? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
CHRISTOS MARKRIDIS (Stanford University and Columbia Business School), Jason Schloetzer10:20 – 10:50
Coffee Break
Session 5: Impacts of the Covid Pandemic (Chair: Oliver Falck) 10:50 – 11:25
Labor Reallocation Dynamics in Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Past Recessions
CHRISTINA VON RÜDEN (German Council of Economic Experts), Esther Thiel,
Niklas Garnadt11:25 – 12:00 Covid-19, Remote Work and the Potential for Reverse Brain Drain
JAN FIDRMUC (Université de Lille), Irina Bakalova, Ruxanda Berlinschi, and Yuri Dzyuba12:00 – 12:30
Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:15 Virtual Discussion (Moderator: Raj Choudhury)
Global Trends and Shifts in the Global Economy in a Post-Pandemic World
RICHARD FLORIDA (University of Toronto)13:15 – 13:30
Closing Remarks (Raj Choudhury and Oliver Falck)
13:30
Lunch