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)

Working Hours, Promotion, and the Gender Gaps in the Workplace: Theory and Evidence from an Econometric Case Study (with Daiji Kawaguchi and Hiromasa Ogawa)

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)

Age, Beauty and Employers’ Gender Preferences: Direct Evidence from Four Job Boards (with Delgado Helleseter,

Miguel, and Kailing Shen)

10:15 Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore)

Gender Gap under Pressure: Performance and Reaction to Shocks (with Cai Xiqian, Lu Yi, and Zhong Songfa)

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)

Gender Differences in the Effect of Family Size on Education: New Evidence from China’s One Child Policy (with Laura Argys)

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