Events

Upcoming Events

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2025-2026 Weekly Visiting Scholar Seminar Series

IRLE Director's Room 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA

We’re thrilled to welcome a new cohort of visitor scholars from universities around the world. Every Wednesday at noon, join us for research presentations and lively discussions featuring both our […]

Economics in service of the public. Erika McEntarfer, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Goldman School of Public Policy and IRLE

Economics in Service of the Public

Goldman School of Public Policy, Room 250 2607 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Erika McEntarfer, former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, will talk about her career as a government economist, how working in the policy realm is different from research, […]

Erika McEntarfer Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Martha Olney Teaching Professor Emerita in UC Berkeley, Economics

Understanding Inflation

IRLE Director's Room 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA

After decades of relatively stable prices, the COVID pandemic and the policy responses to the pandemic reintroduced Americans to sustained and high rates of price inflation. We learned very quickly […]

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Power and Participation in Negotiations

Zoom

About this Workshop How unions negotiate is a strategic choice. Union members seldom directly participate in the process of collective negotiations over issues that are crucial, urgent, and relevant to […]