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LERA Winter Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 3-5
in conjunction with ASSA
PARC 55, 55 Cyril Magnin St., San Francisco, CA 94102

"Whither Shared Prosperity?
Research on Labor Market Institutions"

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The LERA/ASSA Program Committee brings you 18 sessions on leading topics addressing "Whither Shared Prosperity? Research on Labor Market Institutions", including a plenary session and welcome reception on the opening night, which you are invited to attend. Registration and hotel accommodations will be addressed online at the ASSA/AEA website, registration and housing opened on Sep. 16 at https://conf.aeaweb.org, and the earlybird registration deadline is Dec. 2, 2015. The registration ID is required to book a room or a suite.The most up-to-date information about registration and housing can always be found at the ASSA/AEA Annual Meeting Webpage, which you can find here: http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/index.php. The ASSA/AEA handles all logistics for this conference. If needed, please contact them here.

Registration | Housing | Full Program | Event Summary | Program Committee | Participant Information

3 Basic steps to attend conference

1. Register - https://conf.aeaweb.org/
Regular early bird registration is $55 before December 3, and be sure to mark "member" on your registration form.  Note: you must register before you will be able to take advantage of the deeply discounted hotel room rates (of about $99 per night). LERA sessions will be held at PARC 55 San Francisco, a Hilton Hotel. You can pick up your meeting registration materials at the ASSA/AEA registration desk in the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
In the past, when you registered for the ASSA meeting, you created an account in the registration system. Please do not create a new account this year. Instead, log back into your existing account to register for any of this year's meetings. To prepare ahead of time, if you have forgotten your username and/or password, use the Forgot your password option. (Please note that the conference system is separate from the AEA membership system. It is possible that you used the same credentials for both, but they could be different.) All new users simply visit their website and create a username and password for the first time.
(General information about the meeting can be found at https://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/.)

As soon as you register, you will receive an email from [email protected] that will contain a 5-digit housing code. Once you receive this code, proceed to the housing form listed here and reserve your room. The LERA hotel is the PARC 55 San Francisco, a Hilton Hotel.

3. Please review program and get more information - You can find information about the LERA sessions online.

Event Summary -

Sunday
January 3, 2016		Monday
January 4, 2016		Tuesday
January 5, 2016

Concurrent Sessions -
8 am to 4:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions -
8 am to 4:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions -
8 - 10 am

LERA Featured Plenary
(Cyril Magnin II)
4:45 - 6 pm

Search, Structural and Cyclical Unemployment: What Are the Major Challenges for Job Seekers, Employers, and Labor Market Intermediaries
"Search, Structural and Cyclical Unemployment: What Are the Major Challenges for Job Seekers, Employers, and Labor Market Intermediaries"
Chair: William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University
Panelists: Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and former Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Erica Groshen, Commissioner of Labor Statistics

 Chair: Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley
Featured Speakers:
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan and
Alan Krueger, Princeton University


Betsey Stevenson


Alan Krueger

LERA Welcome Reception
Sponsored by Economic Policy Insitute
(Cyril Magnin III)
6 to 7 pm
Join LERA for hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.

   Book your flights in the afternoon to
enjoy the morning
presentation.

LERA/ASSA 2016 Winter Meeting Program Committee

Co-Chairs: Sanford Jacoby, University of California-Los Angeles; Elaine McCrate, University of Vermont. Members: Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland; Sylvia Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley; Dale Belman, Michigan State University; Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research; Larry Mishel, Economic Policy Institute; Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Ex Officio: William Rodgers III, Rutgers University

MEETING PARTICIPANTS - You will find detailed information here on what you need to do prior, during, and after the conference to participate as a chair, presenter, or discussant on the meeting program.