3rd TPLS in Santa Barbara

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

Sponsors: Osaka University (Global COE); UC-Santa Barbara; and Colgate University

Location: State Street Room, UCen Building, UCSB

Program

12^th March (Friday), 2010

8:30 Van leaves Best Western South Coast Inn for UCSB

Morning Session Chair: Philip Babcock, UCSB

• 9:00-9:45 Takao Kato, Colgate University “Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Intergroup Competition in the Workplace” (with Pian Shu)
• 9:45-10:30 Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania “Rank Incentives”

10:30-11:00 Morning Break

• 11:00-11:45 Kengo Yasui, Ritsumeikan University "The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Working Hours and Work Intensity: Evidence from Japanese Employer–Manager–Employee Matched Data" (with Akihito Toda)
• 11:45-12:30 Tom Y. Chang, Marshall School, USC, “How Many Pears Would a Pear Packer Pack if a Pear Packer Could Pack Pears at Quasi-Exogenously Varying Piece Rates? An Empirical Evaluation of Inter-temporal Labor Supply” (with Tal Gross)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair: Peter Kuhn, UCSB

• 13:45-14:30 Richard Freeman, Harvard University “The Perpetual War over Market Economies: Shared Capitalism vs Crony Capitalism”
• 14:30-15:15 Katsuyuki Kubo, Waseda University "The Effect of Mergers on Employment and Wages: Evidence from Japan" (with Takuji Saito)

15:15-15:45 Afternoon break

• 15:45-16:30 Masaru Sasaki, Osaka University, Kenn Ariga, Kyoto University, and Fumio Ohtake, Osaka University "Productivity and Job Trainings: Cases of Two Japanese Automobile Makers" (with Masako Kurosawa and Shoko Yamane)
• 16:30-17:15 Susan Houseman, Upjohn Institute “Offshoring and the State of American Manufacturing” (with Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann, and Benjamin Mandel)

17:15 Van leaves UCSB for Best Western South Coast Inn

19:00 Van leaves Best Western South Coast Inn

19:20-20:00 Walking Tour of Downtown Santa Barbara (optional)

Conference Dinner 20:00, opal restaurant and bar, 1325 State Street, Santa Barbara (805) 966-9676

13^th March (Saturday), 2010

8:30 Van leaves Best Western South Coast Inn for UCSB

Morning Session Chair: Takao Kato, Colgate University

• 9:00-9:45 Peter Kuhn, UCSB “Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from Laboratory Experiments?” (with Gary Charness)

9:45-10:15 morning break

• 10:15-11:00 Ayako Kondo, Osaka University “Long-term Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Family Formation for Japanese Youths” (with Yuki Hashimoto)
• 11:00-11:45 Daiji Kawaguchi, Hitotsubashi University "Trends in Long-Term Employment in Japan" (with Yuko Ueno)
• 11:45-12:30 Toshie Ikenaga, Hitotsubashi University and Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University "Long Term Transition of Polarization in the Japanese Labor Market"

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair: Catherine Weinberger, UCSB

• 13:30-14:15 Jeff Carpenter, Middlebury College “Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment”(with Stephen Burks, Lorenz Goette, and Aldo Rustichini)
• 14:15-15:00 Heather Royer, UCSB "Incentives and Commitments for Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment at an On-site Corporate Fitness Center”
• 15:00-15:45 Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University “What do bosses do?”

15:45-16:45 Campus and Beach Walk (optional)