Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER), Fumio Ohtake (Osaka), and Akira Kawaguchi (Doshisha)
Sponsors: Osaka University (Global COE); Doshisha University; UC-Santa Barbara; and Colgate University
Dates: March 17th (Saturday) and 18th (Sunday), 2012
Place: Doshisha University, Karasuma-Higashi-iru, Imadegawa-dori, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8580, Japan.
PROGRAM
March 17th
09:30-10:15
Hank Farber (Princeton)
10:15-11:00
Takao Kato
11:00-11:15 break
11:15-12:00
Richard Freeman (Harvard)
Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009 (with Wei Chi and Hongbin Li)
12:00-13:30
lunch & poster session
13:30-14:15
Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi)
The Long-term Career Effects of Labor Market Entry during the Great Recession: Evidence from Japan’s “Lost Decade” (with Shota Araki, Takao Kato, and Hideo Owan)
14:15-15:00
Lisa Kahn (Yale)
15:00-15:30 break
15:30-16:15
Hiroshi Ono (Texas A&M)
Career mobility in the embedded market: How workers change jobs in the Japanese financial sector
16:15-17:00
Kenta Hayashi (Kyoto)
Promotion in Bureaucracy: Evidence from Japan
17:00-17:45
Isamu Yamamoto (Keio)
The Effect of Work-life Balance Practice on Firm's Productivity (with Toshiyuki Matsuura)
18:00- reception
March 18th
09:30-10:15
Peter Kuhn
Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective? (with Hani Mansour)
10:15-11:00
Masaru Sasaki (Osaka)
An Experimental Test of a Collective Search Model (with Yoichi Hizen and Keisuke Kawata)
11:00-11:15 break
11:15-12:00
Giorgio Brunello (Padua and Osaka)
Books are forever:Early life conditions, education and lifetime income
12:00-13:30
lunch & poster session
13:30-14:15
Lindsay Oldenski (Georgetown)
Offshoring and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
14:15-15:00
Hodaka Morita (UNSW)
Poster Session (March 17th &18th 12:00-13:30)
Yukiko Abe (Hokkaido University)
"Regional Variations in Labor Force Behavior of Women in Japan"
SunYoun Lee (Osaka University)
"Procrastinators and Hyperbolic Discounters: Transition Probabilities of Moving from
Temporary into Full-time Employment" (with Fumio Ohtake)
Tomoharu Mori (Osaka University)
"The Hidden Costs of Control in Field" (with Sarunyu Jitsophon)
Yoshinori Nishimura (University of Tokyo)
"The Effect of Japanese Social Security System on Retirement Behavior"
Hiroko Okudaira (Okayama University)
"How Do Firms Respond to an Increase in Minimum Wage? Direct Evidence on Firms’
Internal Responses" (with Miho Takizawa, Fumio Ohtake, and Kotaro Tsuru)
Masayuki Onda (Yokohama National University)
"Work Life Balance Practices and Compensating Wage Differentials: An Empirical Research
of the Nursing Industry in Japan"
Yuki Onozuka (Hitotsubashi University)
"Illusive Improvement: Gender Wage Gap and Sample Selection in Japan"
Daichi Shimamoto (Osaka University)
"International Migration and Remittance: Evidence from Albania"
Emiko Usui (Nagoya University and IZA)
"Employer Learning, Job Mobility, and Wage Dynamics" (with Seik Kim)
Tien Manh Vu (Osaka University)
"Gender and Housework Division among Children: Evidence from Household and Twins-like
Data in Vietnam"
Ting Yin (Osaka University)
"Bequest Motives and Retirement Behavior in China"