NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Labor Studies

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 31 - August 2, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 31:

8:00 AM	Coffee and Doughnuts

WAGE DETERMINATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND LABOR DEMAND

8:30 AM	ELI BERMAN, Boston University and NBER

Skill-Bias, Productivity and Technological Convergence in Global Manufacturing

9:30 AM	DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

FRANK LEVY, MIT

RICHARD J. MURNANE, Harvard University and NBER

Computer Cognition and Human Cognition: The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change

10:30 AM	Break

11:00 AM	PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

DAVID GREEN, University of British Columbia

The Changing Structure of Wages in the U.S. and Germany:

What Explains the Difference?

12:00 N	Lunch

1:00 PM	DAVID KAPLAN and BROOKS PIERCE, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Firm-Wide Versus Establishment-Specific Pay Practices

2:00 PM	Break

INCENTIVES IN THE LABOR MARKET

2:15 PM	MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Harvard University

On Arbitration Norms

3:15 PM	Break

3:30 PM	MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay?

4:30 PM	Adjourn

SI00 LS Program

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 1:

8:00 AM	Coffee and Doughnuts

COMPARATIVE LABOR MARKETS AND PUBLIC POLICY

8:30 AM	DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

ANDREW OSWALD, University of Warwick

Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the U.S.A.

9:30 AM	PER-ANDERS EDIN, Uppsala University and NBER

PETER FREDRIKSSON, and OLOF ÅSLUND, Uppsala University

Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants:

Evidence from a Natural Experiment

10:30 AM	Break

11:00 AM	JENNIFER HUNT, Yale University and NBER

Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

12:00 N	Lunch

1:00 PM	MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER

FRANCIS KRAMARZ, INSEE/CREST

Does Product Market Regulation Hinder Job Creation?

Commercial Zoning Laws and Retail Trade Employment in France?

2:00 PM	Break

2:15 PM	MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER

NICOLE FORTIN, University of British Columbia

Comparable Worth Comes to the Private Sector: The Case of Ontario

3:15 PM	Break

3:30 PM	DAVID BLOOM, Harvard University and NBER

DAVID CANNING, Queen's University of Belfast

Population Dynamics, Human Capital, and Economic Performance:

Theory and Evidence

4:30 PM	Adjourn

SI00 LS Program

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2:

8:00 AM	Coffee and Doughnuts

EDUCATION AND THE LABOR MARKET

8:30 AM	JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER

GABOR KEZDI, University of Michigan

SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia

Trade in University Training:

Cross State Variation in the Production and Use of College Labor

9:30 AM	JAMES HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER

JINGJING HSSE and YONA RUBINSTEIN, University of Chicago

The GED is a 'Mixed Signal':

The Effect of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes

10:30 AM	Break

11:00 AM	CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

Student Achievement and the Race and Gender of Their Classmates

12:00 N	Lunch

1:00 PM	JONATHAN GURYAN Guryan, MIT

Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

2:00 PM	Break

2:15 PM	ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER

DIANE WHITMORE, Princeton University

The Effect of Attending a Small Class in Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results:

Evidence from Project STAR

3:15 PM	Break

3:30 PM	DARON ACEMOGLU and JÖRN-STEFFEN PISCHKE, MIT and NBER

Does Inequality Encourage Education?

4:30 PM	Adjourn

6:00 PM	Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

30 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

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