主讲人：Uta Schönberg（香港大学）

主持人：汪浩（北京大学国家发展研究院）

时间：2024年10月28日（周一）下午13:30-15:00（北京时间）

地点：131教室

题目：Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers

摘要：

Exposure to better peers at work can improve career prospects because of knowledge spillovers. However, it can also harm career prospects if workers compete for career opportunities. We disentangle these two effects by focusing on unskilled labor market entrants and dividing their colleagues in the same occupation into those they are likely and unlikely to compete with. We find strong evidence for persistent knowledge spillover effects but detect counteracting competition effects of similar magnitude. Both knowledge spillover and competition effects are larger for men than women.

主讲人介绍：

Uta Schönberg is a Professor of Economics at HKU Business School and University College London (currently on leave). Her research focuses on applied microeconomics, with a special interest in wage inequality and dynamics, family economics, the economics of education, and migration economics. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy. From 2016 to 2021, Uta served as a Joint Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies. She is currently a Co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economics.