1st TPLS in Santa Barbara

Inaugural Meeting of the Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar:

"Evolving Employment Practices in Japan and the U.S.”

Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER) and Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER)

Sponsors: The Suntory Foundation; UC-Santa Barbara; and Colgate University

Location: Flying A Room, UCen Building, UCSB

Friday March 9 2007

8:20 am: Shuttle van picks up guests at South Coast Inn for transport to UCSB

8:30 am: coffee and pastries

9:00 – 12:00

Peter Kuhn (UCSB), "The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2005"

Susan Houseman (Upjohn Institute), "Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services"

Fumio Ohtake (Osaka University)

"Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity"

12:00-1:30 Lunch (served in the Flying A room)

1:30-3:30

Henry Farber (Princeton University)

"Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization: Long-Term Employment in the United States and Japan"

Takao Kato (Colgate University), "High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers"

3:30- 4:00 Afternoon snack

4:00 – 5:00 Hideo Owan (Aoyama Gakuin University)

“Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data"

5:00 shuttle van transports guests to South Coast Inn

7:20 shuttle van departs from South Coast Inn for conference dinner

7:45 Conference dinner, Louie’s Restaurant (in the Upham Hotel, 1404 De La Vina St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101)

Saturday March 10 2007

8:20 am: Shuttle van picks up guests at South Coast Inn for transport to UCSB

8:30 am: coffee and pastries

9:00 – 12:00

Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University), “Reaching for the Stars”

Tsuyoshi Tsuru (Hitotsubashi University), "Transforming Incentives: Analysis of Personnel and Employee Output Data in a Large Japanese Auto Sales Firm"

Isao Ohashi (Hitotsubashi University)

"Morale and Work Satisfaction in the Workplace"

12:00-1:00 Lunch (served in the Flying A room)

1:00-2:00 Beach and Campus Walk

2:00-3:00 Jed L. DeVaro (Cornell University), "Job Characteristics and Labor Market Discrimination in Promotions: New Theory and Empirical Evidence”

3:00-3:30 afternoon snack

3:30-5:00 Roundtable discussion of future plans and funding for TPLS.

5:00 shuttle bus departs UCSB for South Coast Inn