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