International Labor Conference

Ann Arbor, May 25-27, 2007

 

The conference will discuss theoretical, empirical and policy papers. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•  Labor Market Structure

•  Labor Market Dynamics and Unemployment

•  Gender and Discrimination

•  Informal Wage and Poverty

•  Health, Education, and Labor

•  Trade and Labor Markets

 

It is the organizers intention to publish a high quality publication-a special issue of a journal or an academic press volume-based on papers selected from the conference. Those authors who wish to have their papers considered for publication will be invited after the conference to submit their paper for refereeing if they wish to do so.

 

Click here for complete list of participants, including their contact information.

 

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See below for draft program and links to Conference papers.

Labor Markets in Transition and Developing Economies:

Emerging Policy and Analytical Issues

An International Conference Organized by Cornell University/International Policy Center (Ford School, Michigan) Ann Arbor, May 25-27, 2007

Draft Program (4/09/07)

 

May 24—Participants Arrive

May 25, 2007

9:00 - 9:15 Opening: Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University and Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan 

9:15 - 10:30 Session I Labor Market Structure (1)

Gary Fields, Cornell University, “Modeling Labor Market Policy in Developing Countries.”

 

Ted To, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Imperfectly Competitive Formal and Informal Labor Markets.” Imperfectly Competitive Formal and Informal Labor Markets.”

10.30-11.00     Break

11.00-12.45     Session II Labor Market Dynamics and Unemployment (1)

David Lam, University of Michigan; Murray Leibbrandt University of Cape Town; and Cecil Mlatsheni University of Cape Town "Dynamics of labor market entry and youth unemployment in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study"

 

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, Sebastian Galliani, Washington University, Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan, Ingrid Woolard, University of Cape Town and Zoe McLaren, University of Michigan, “Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa?”

 

Insan Tunali, Koc University, “Analysis of attrition patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000-2002.”

12.45-2.00       Lunch

2.00-3.15         Session III Labor Market Regulation (1)

Santiago Levy, Former Deputy Finance Minister of Mexico, “Can Social Programs Reduce Productivity and Growth? A Hypothesis for Mexico.”

 

Mary Hallward-Driemier, The World Bank and Brooke Helppie, University of Michigan, “Labor Flexibility at the Firm Level: Regulation, Enforcement and Corruption.”

3.15-3.45         Break

3.45-5.00         Session IV Gender and Discrimination (1)

Chrisophe Nordman, DIAL and Fracois-Charles Wolff, Universite de Nantes “Is there a glass ceiling in Morocco? Evidence from matched worker-firm data.”

 

Yoo-Mi Chin, Michigan State University, “Women’s Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India.”

 

5.00-6.15         Session V Health, Education and Labor (1)

Marianne Betrand, University of Chicago, Rema Hanna, NYU and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University, “ Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India.”

 

Philippe de Vreyer, DIAL, Flore Gubert, DIAL, Fracocis Roubaud, DIAL, “Migration, Self-Selection and Returns to Education in the WAMEU.”

7.00                 Conference Reception and Dinner

 

May 26, 2007

8.45-10.30       Session VI Labor Market Structure (2)

Dipak Mazumdar, University of Toronto and Sandip Sarkar, Institute of Human Development, Delhi, “Employment Elasticity in Organized Manufacturing in India.”

 

Mariano Bosch, LSE, Edwin Goni, The World Bank and William Maloney, The World Bank, “The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence form Gross Worker Flows.”

 

John Bennett, Brunel University and Saul Estrin, LSE, “Entrepreneurial Entry in Developing Economies: Modelling Interactions Between the Formal and Informal Sector.”

10.30-11.00     Break

11.00-12.45    SessionVII Labor Market Regulation (2)

Tim Gindling, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Katherine Terrell, University of Michigan, “Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Different Types of Workers in Honduras.”

 

Mabel Andalon, Cornell University and Carmen Pages, Inter American Development Bank, “Minimum Wages in Kenya.”

 

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of Michigan and Klara Sabrianova, Georgia Stae University, “Public Sector Pay and Corruption: measuring Bribery from Micro Data.”

12.45-2.00       Lunch

2.00-3.15         Session VIII Trade and Labor Markets (1)

Ann Harrison, University of California, Berkeley, “Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment,”

 

Vivek Dehejia, Carleton University and Yiagadeesen Samy, Carelton University “Trade and Labor Standards: A Review of the Theory and New Empirical Evidence.”

3.15-3.45         Break

3.45-5.00         Session IX Gender and Discrimination (2)

Gabor Kertesi, Hungarian Academy, and Gabor Kezdi, Central European University, “Roma Employment during the Post-Communist Transition of Hungary.”

 

Anastasia Semykina, Florida State University  and Susan J. Linz, Michigan State University, “Do personality differences explain the gender pay gap?”

6.00                 Barbecue at the home of Jan Svejnar and Kathy Terrell

 

May 27, 2007

8.30-9.45         Session X Labor Market Dynamics and Unemployment (2)

Mariano Bosch, LSE, “Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets.”

 

Thomas Dohmen, IZA, Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna, and Mark Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University, “Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data—1997 to 2003.”

9.45-11.00       Session XI Informal Wage and Poverty

Sugata Marjit, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, “Labor Productivity and Informal Wage”

 

Pierella Paci, World Bank, “Does Employment Generation Really matter for Poverty Reduction?”

11.00-11.30     Break

11.30-12.45     Session XII Trade and Labor

Hale Urtar, University of Colorado, “Import Competition and Employment Dynamics.”

 

Pedro Martins, Queen Mary College, University  London, and Luis Esteves, Univesidade Federal do Parana, “Foreign Ownership and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Firm Acquisiton and Job Movers.”

12.45-1.00       Closing