2nd TPLS in Tokyo

Organized by Takao Kato, Peter Kuhn and Ryo Kambayashi (local organizer)

Supported by Hitotsubashi University (Global COE), The Suntory Foundation, Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training, Colgate University

Location: Conference Room at Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training, Kasumigaseki Office. (6th Floor, Daido-Seimei Kasumigaseki Building, Kasumigaseki 1-4-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0013, Japan.)

Program and Papers:

Sunday March 1, 2009

9:00 – 12:20 Morning Session

Peter Kuhn (UCSB), “Explicit Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from a Chinese Internet Job Board," (with Kailing Shen, Xiamen University)

Masaru Sasaki (Osaka University), “Unemployment and Workplace Safety in a Search and Matching Model"

Susan Houseman (Upjohn Institute), "The Effects of Trade on U.S. Manufacturing Workers: Why Economic Statistics are Misleading"

12:20-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:00 Afternoon Session

Takao Kato (Colgate University), “The Japanese Employment System after the Bubble Burst: New Evidence,” (with Ryo Kambayashi)

Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University), “Minimum Wage in Deflationary Economy: Experience of Japan, 1994-2003" (with Ryo Kambayashi, and Ken Yamada, Singapore Management University)

Till von Wachter (Columbia University), “Long-Term Earnings Losses after Mass-Layoffs: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004" (with Jae Song, Social Security Administration, and Joyce Manchester, Congressional Budget Office)

17:00 Move to the Daiichi Hotel Tokyo (venue for the Conference Buffet/Dinner Reception)

18:30-19:15 Keynote Speech by Kazuo Koike, “Skill, Voice, and Competitiveness: Integrating Field Research into Labor Economics”

19:30-21:30 Buffet/Dinner Reception

Monday March 2, 2009

9:00 – 12:20 Morning Session

Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University), “Insider Econometrics: A Roadmap for Estimating Empirical Models of Organizational Performance" (with Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University)

Hideo Owan (Aoyama Gakuin University), "Incentives and Gaming in a Nonlinear Compensation Scheme" (with Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara, Hitotsubashi University)

Fumio Ohtake (Osaka University), “Productivity and Job Training: Cases of Japanese Automobile Companies" (with Kenn Ariga, Kyoto University, Masako Kurosawa, GRIPS, and Masaru Sasaki, Osaka University)

12:20-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Afternoon Session

Emiko Usui (Nagoya University), “Intergenerational Correlations of Skills (with Tsunao Okumura, Yokohama National University"

14:30-14:45 Closing