The Trans Pacific Labor Seminar (TPLS) was founded by Takao Kato and Peter Kuhn in 2007 to begin a much-needed process of international academic integration of labor economists in the Pacific Rim. Since then, the TPLS has been holding annual meetings in the United States, Japan and Australia. The in-person meeting at UC-Berkeley was postponed due to Covid-19 Pandemic.
Organizers: Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley), Takao Kato (Colgate), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara), and Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi)
Sponsors: UC-Berkeley and UC-Santa Barbara
Dates: February 17 (Thursday) and 18 (Friday), 2022
Place: Virtual (passcode required)
Contact: Takao Kato at tkato@colgate.edu
NOTES:
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13th Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar (virtual)
PROGRAM
Day 1 [Feb 17 USA, Feb 18 Japan]: 6 - 9:15 pm Thursday (California) = 9 pm - 0:15 am Thursday (New York) = 4 - 7:15 pm Thursday (Hawaii) = 11 am - 2:15 pm Friday (Tokyo)
6:00 Opening
Session 1 Chair: Takao Kato
6:00 - 6:35 David Card (UC-Berkeley),
"Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity."
6:35 - 7:10 Peter Kuhn and Trevor Osaki (UC-Santa Barbara),
"When is Discrimination Unfair?"
7:10 - 7:45 Chris Walters (UC-Berkeley),
"Systemic Discrimination Among Large US Employers," (with Pat Kline and Evan Rose).
7:45 - 8:05 Break
Session 2 Chair: Jesse Rothstein
8:05 - 8:40 Daiji Kawaguchi (Tokyo),
"Training, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency (with Xinwei Dong and Dean Hyslop)
8:40 - 9:15 Tim Halliday (Hawaii-Manoa),
"The Effect of Paid Childcare Leave on Fertility and Female Labor Supply in South Korea," (with Kyeongkuk Kim and Sang-Hyop Lee)
Day 2: [Feb 18 USA, Feb 19 Japan] 6 - 9:15 pm Friday (California) = 9 pm - 0:15 am Friday (New York) = 4 - 7:15 pm Friday (Hawaii) = 11 am - 2:15 pm Saturday (Tokyo)
Session 3 Chair: Peter Kuhn
6:00 - 6:35 Jesse Rothstein,
"Location, Location, Location," (with David Card and Moises Yi)
6:35 - 7:10 Yudai Higashi (Okayama University),
"Urbanization Effects on Job Search Decision."
7:10 - 7:45 Till von Wachter (UCLA)
“Minimum wage effects and labor market concentration” (joint with Jose Azar, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Ioana Marinescu)
7:45 - 8:05 Break
Session 4 Chair: Ryo Kambayashi
8:05 - 8:40 Supreet Kaur (UC-Berkeley),
“The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply,” (Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, and Florian Grosset)
8:40 - 9:15 Sydnee Caldwell (UC-Berkeley)
“Wage Posting and Wage Bargaining: Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data” (joint with Ingrid Haegele and Joerg Heining)
9:15 Closing
List of Participants