7th TPLS in Sydney
The Trans Pacific Labor Seminar (TPLS) was founded by Takao Kato and Peter Kuhn in 2007 to begin a much-needed process of international academic integration of labor economists in the Pacific Rim. Since then, the TPLS has been holding annual meetings in the United States and Japan. This year the TPLS is pleased to expand its scope and hold its annual meeting in Australia, hosted by the School of Economics at UNSW Australia Business School
Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER), and Hodaka Morita (UNSW).
Sponsor: UNSW Australia Business School
UNSW Local Organization Committee: Geni Dechter, Isabella Dobrescu, Xiaodong Fan, Elisabetta Magnani, Hodaka Morita (Chair), Tess Stafford, Cheng-Tao Tang.
Dates: August 8-9, 2014
Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel - Centennial Room, Sydney, Australia
PROGRAM DAY 1
(August 8, Crowne Plaza Hotel - Centennial Room)
8:30 Welcome and Coffee with Refreshments
8:55 Opening remarks: Denise Doiron, Head of School of Economics, UNSW Australia
Business School
Morning Session
Chair Elisabetta Magnani (UNSW Australia)
9:00 Dan Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin) and Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Does Labor legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being After an Hours Reduction (with Jungmin Lee)
9:45 Jed DeVaro (California State University, East Bay)
Compensation and Intrinsic Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations (with Nan Maxwell and Hodaka Morita)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Fumio Ohtake (Osaka University)
The Hidden Curriculum and Social Preferences (with Akahiro Ito and Kohei Kubota)
11:45 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Melbourne)
Locus of Control and Savings (with Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and Mathias G. Sinning)
12:30 Lunch at BlueSalt Restaurant (Crowne Plaza Hotel)
Afternoon Session
Chair Isabella Dobrescu (UNSW Australia)
1:30 Kailing Shen (Xiamen University)
Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China’s Hukou System (with Peter Kuhn)
2:15 Xin Meng (Australian National University)
Intergenerational Effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on Education (with Guochang Zhao)
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Takao Kato (Colgate University) and Hideo Owan (University of Tokyo)
4:15 Michael Waldman (Cornell University)
The Dual Avenues of Labor Market Signalling
5:00 Drinks at Oceans Bar (Crowne Plaza Hotel)
6:30 Dinner at Banana Palm Coogee
PROGRAM DAY 2
(August 9, Crowne Plaza Hotel - Centennial Room)
9:00 Coffee with Refreshments
Morning Session
Chair Tess Stafford (UNSW Australia)
9:30 Peter Kuhn (University of California Santa Barbara)
10:15 Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore)
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Yukiko Asai (University of Tokyo) and Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
Career of Married Women and the Nature of Husbands’ Work: Evidence from Japan (with Takao Kato)
12:15 Susan Averett (Lafayette College)
1:00 Lunch at BlueSalt Restaurant (Crowne Plaza Hotel)
Afternoon Session
Chair Xiaodong Fan (UNSW Australia)
2:00 Yukiko Abe (Hokkaido University)
Heterogeneity, Coordination, and Female Labor Force Participation
2:45 Kevin Schnepel (University of Sydney)
Food Stamps and Labor Supply: Evidence from Lifetime Bans for Drug Felons
3:30 Tess Stafford (UNSW Australia)
Experience and the Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply
4:15 Conference closing remarks: Takao Kato, Colgate University
5:15 Bus departs Crowne Plaza Hotel for Harbour Cruise