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