WISE LABOR 2011
December 10-11 (Sat-Sun), 2011
PROGRAM
Saturday, 10 December 2011
8:15 am – 8:30 am Opening Remarks (Econ C208)
8:30am – 10:00am Plenary Session (Econ C208)
Keynote Speeches:
Internet Job Boards as a Data Source for Labor Economists: The Promise and the Price
Peter Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?
Yves Zenou (Stockholm University)
10:00 am – 10:30am Group Photo and Coffee Break
10:30am – 12:30 pm Parallel Sessions A, B
Session A (Econ C208) Job Search, Matching and Employment
Chair: Kailing Shen (WISE, Xiamen University)
Substitute Education for...? An Empirical Study of Job Searching Competition
Kailing Shen (WISE, Xiamen University)
Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Christoph Basten (KOF Swiss Economic Institute), Andreas Fagereng, and Kjetil Telle
The impact of means-tested unemployment benefits on the joint employment decisions of couples
Kent Zhao (WISE, Xiamen University)
Sectoral Shocks, Mismatch and Monetary Policy
Yang Bian (Georgetown University) and Pedro Gete
Session B (Econ D110) Intergenerational Mobility, Social Networks and
Labor Market Participation
Chair: Patrizio Piraino (University of Cape Town)
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Taiwan
I-Hsin Li (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica)
Marital Sorting and Intergenerational Mobility in South Africa
Patrizio Piraino (University of Cape Town)
Agglomeration, Segregation, and Social Networks
Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu (WISE, Xiamen University) and Stephen L. Ross
Chapter 91A Inspite of Chapter 317 - Did Foreign Domestic Workers Help Increase Singaporean Women's Labor Market Participation?
Tiago Freire (National University of Singapore)
2:30 pm – 5:30 pm Parallel Sessions A, B
Session A (EconC208) Education
Chair: Chun-Chung Au (WISE, Xiamen University)
Male and Female Earnings Convergence in Urban China: The Role of Education
Xiao Han and Kisalaya Basu
(Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Education and Training under Labor Market Frictions
Kazuhiko Sumiya (University of Tokyo)
Higher Education Expansion in Transition Economy—Empirical Evidence from China: 1978-2010
Xiao Ke (China University of Geosciences)
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee Break
Differential Admission Standards Across Provinces - How Efficient is the Admissions Policy of a National University in China?
Chun-Chung Au (WISE, Xiamen University)
How to Admit the Best Students? Evidence from a National Key University in China
Guangliang Yang (WISE, Xiamen University)
Session B (EconD110) Public Educational Expenditure, Income Distribution, Trade, and Saving in China
Chair: Xialiang Zhao (School of Economics, Xiamen University)
公共教育支出与代际收入流动性
Bo Zhou (University of International Business and Economics) and Jia Su
中国城乡居民收入分布的估计：1985-2009
Yafeng Wang (China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University)
中美贸易对美国劳动力市场的影响——基于制造业部门面板数据的分析
Rui Kong (School of Economics, Xiamen University) and Ying Zhao
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee Break
房价上涨能解释中国城镇居民高储蓄率吗：基于CHIPS数据的微观计量分析
Xiliang Zhao (School of Economics, Xiamen University) and Wenquan Liang and ShiLi
Sunday, 11 Dec 2011
8:30am – 10:00am Plenary Session (Econ C208)
Keynote Speeches
Life Cycle Earnings and Saving in A Fast-Growing Economy
Dennis Tao Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Factor Market Distortions Across Time, Space and Sectors in China
Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)
10:00 am – 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am – 12:30 pm Parallel Sessions A, B
Session A (Econ C208) Wage Inequality and Poverty
Chair: Jan Hogrefe (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))
Offshoring, Skill-Upgrading and Residual Wage Inequality
Jan Hogrefe (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)) and Jens Wrona
Accounting for the Native-Immigrant Earnings Differentials and Ethnicity Assimilation in Taiwan (Pending confirmation)
Mei Hsu (National Taipei University) and Been-Lon Chen
Poverty Dynamics in Rural Vietnam
Van Q. Tran (University of Goettingen)
Session B (Econ D110) Institution
Chair: Cheryl Long (WISE, Xiamen University)
Job Growth and Finance: Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?
Robert Cull and Colin Xu (World Bank)
Career and Unemployment Dynamics in Spain: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Sylvie Blasco and Frederic warzynski
(Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus)
Visible Hand versus Invisible Hand in Influencing Labor Market Outcomes
Cheryl Long and Jing Zhang (Xiamen University)
2:30 pm – 5:30 pm Parallel Sessions A, B
Session A (Econ C208) Minimum Wage & Union
Chair: Tavis Barr (Beijing Normal University)
Effects of Increasing Minimum Wages on Employment and Hours: Evidence from Sweden’s Retail Sector
Per Skedinger (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))
Employment and Working Hours Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from China
Peng Jia (Jilin University) and Shiwei Zhang
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm Coffee Break
Less Myth, More Measurement: Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike
Carl Lin (Beijing Normal University)
Sticking to the Union
Tavis Barr (Beijing Normal University), Todd Idson, and Lalith Munasinghe
Session B (Econ D110) Migration
Chair: Akira Shimada (Nagasaki University)
Durable Dictatorship in the Presence of Emigration
Min Hein (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Migration Possibilities, Education, and Human Capital Formation
Akira Shimada (Nagasaki University)
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm Coffee Break
Dropping out of Floating Children in China: Explanation and Evidence
Wenbin Wang (School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University)
and Heng Yin
China's Initial Land Allocation and Rural-Urban Migration
Lei Meng (WISE, Xiamen University)
