Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER), Fumio Ohtake (Osaka) and Kenn Ariga (Kyoto).
Sponsors: Osaka University (Global COE); Kyoto University; UC-Santa Barbara; and Colgate University
Program
19th March (Saturday), 2011
9:00-9:45 Takao Kato (Colgate) “Long-term Employment and Job Security in Japan and the U.S. over the Last Twenty-five Years: A Comparative Analysis” (with Ryo Kambayashi)
9:45-10:30 Henry Farber (Princeton) "Job Loss and Unemployment in the 21st Century: The Great Recession in Labor Market Perspective"
10:30-11:00 Morning Break
11:00-11:45 Hiroko Okudaira (Okayama), "What does a dispatched work offer? Empirical suggestions from the Japanese survey" (with Fumio Ohtake, Koichi Kume and Kotaro Tsuru)
11:45-12:30 Till von Wachter (Columbia) "The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years" (with Johannes Schmieder and Stefan Bender)
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Katsuya Takii (Osaka), "Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: Evidence from Personnel Data in Many Firms" (with Masaru Sasaki and Junmin Wan)
14:30-15:15 Hodaka Morita (UNSW) "Internal Promotion and External Recruitment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" (with Jed DeVaro)
15:15-15:45 Afternoon break
15:45-16:30 Shoko Yamane (Osaka), "Peer Effects of Swimmers"
16:30-17:15 Richard Freeman (Harvard) "Do top executive incentives improve the future performance of the firm? A forward looking analysis of the delta of the Black-Scholes and company outcomes (with Guiliano Bianchi).
Conference Dinner 19:00-21:00
20th March (Sunday), 2011
9:00-9:45 Kenn Ariga (Kyoto) "Wage growth through job hopping in China" (with Masako Kurosawa, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki, and Zenren Wu)
9:45-10:30 David Autor (MIT) "The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the U.S," (with David Dorn and Gordon Hanson)
10:30-11:00 Morning Break
11:00-11:45 Akira Kawaguchi (Doshisha), "Is Japanese Employment System Discriminatory against Women?: Evidence from Wage Census 1989-2009"
11:45-12:30 Peter Kuhn (UCSB), "Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence" (with Kailing Shen)
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi), "Marriage Market Imbalances and International Migration," (with Soohyung Lee)
Note: Due to the Tohoku Earthquake, many overseas participants were unable to participate.