The RFBerlin Applied Economics Seminar series brings leading researchers to Berlin to share their latest work and engage with our community. We are pleased to welcome Laura Pilossoph for this session, where they will share their work.

Laura Pilossoph is the Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University and a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Her research focuses on macroeconomics, labour economics, and applied macroeconomics more broadly, with additional interests in computational methods, including machine learning and numerical analysis. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2013.

Event Topic:

Job Search, Wages, and Inflation

How do inflation expectations affect the job search behavior of workers when wages are set in nominal terms? A canonical job search model incorporating nominal wage rigidities implies that on-the-job search should increase with expected inflation. In a novel survey, we show that workers are more likely to search at higher values of hypothetical inflation. In the Survey of Consumer Expectations, within-respondent variation in inflation expectations predicts search. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the search mechanism and the 2021-2023 rise in inflation expectations can explain roughly 30 percent of the change in the job-to-job transition probability over that period.

Event Details:

Date: 2 June 2026
Time: 14:00–15:15

Participation: the seminar is open to the public and targeted to an academic audience.

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