9th TPLS in Santa Barbara

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, Japan and Australia. This year we are pleased to bring the TPLS meeting back to Santa Barbara after six years.

Organizers: Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER) and Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi).

Sponsors: UC-Santa Barbara; and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Dates: March 28-29, 2016

Place: UC-Santa Barbara

TPLS Schedule, Santa Barbara March 28-29 2016

Monday, March 28

8:20 a.m. Shuttles depart Best Western Peppertree Inn for Mosher Alumni House, UCSB

Morning session: Search and Skills

9:00-9:40 Henry Farber (Princeton) “Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study” (with Dan Silverman and Till von Wachter)

9:40-10:20 Alex Wood-Doughty (UCSB) “Do Employers Learn from Public Reviews?”

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20 Lisa Kahn (Yale) “Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Demands” (with David Deming)

11:20-12:00 Yuki Onozuka (University of Western Ontario) "Basic Skills or Major-Specific Knowledge? Sources of Wage Penalties for Working Outside the Major Field of Study"

12:00 -2:00 Lunch and campus walk (weather permitting)

Afternoon session: Pay and Incentives

2:00-2:40 Hideo Owan (University of Tokyo) "Monetary Incentives for Corporate Inventors: Intrinsic Motivation, Project Selection and Inventive Performance" (with Koichiro Onishi and Sadao Nagaoka)

2:40-3:20 Yuko Ueno (Hitotsubashi University. "Firms' Incentive Provisions: Tournament Structure and Worker Flow" (with Ryo Kambayashi)

3:20-3:40 Break

3:40-4:20 Supreet Kaur (Columbia) “The Morale Effects Of Pay Inequality” (with Emily Breza and Yogita Shamdasani)

4:20-5:00 Alex Mas (Princeton) "Does Disclosure affect CEO Pay Setting? Evidence from the Passage of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act"

5:20 Shuttle departs Alumni House for hotel

7:00 pm Conference dinner at Jane Restaurant, 1311 State Street, Santa Barbara

Tuesday, March 29

8:20 a.m. Shuttles depart Best Western Peppertree Inn for Mosher Alumni House, UCSB

Morning session: Consumption and Labor Supply

9:00-9:40 Ken Yamada (Kyoto University), “Consumption Inequality and Durable Adjustment”

9:40-10:20 Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University) “The Assimilation of Hispanics: Evidence from Retail” (with Rebecca Diamond, and Francine Lafontaine)

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20 Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster University) “Effects of Childcare Availability on Children and Labor Supply in Extended Family"

11:20-12:00 Serena Canaan (UCSB) “Parental leave, Intra-Household Decision Making and Children's Well-Being”

Lunch 12:00-1:00

Afternoon session: Management and Delegation

1:00-1:40 Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto) “What do managers do? Evidence from performance metrics and employee surveys in a firm” (with Peter Coles and Steven Tadelis)

1:40-2:20 Kohei Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University) “Delegation and Productivity: Evidence from Vending Machine Management”

2:40 Shuttle departs Alumni House for hotel