EMERGING LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

NBER / MACARTHUR FOUNDATION CONFERENCE

August 4-5, 2000

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

8:30-9am	COFFEE and PASTRIES

INSIDE/OUTSIDE STRATEGIES - ANTI SWEATSHOP AND BARGAINING PARTNERSHIPS

9-10:10am	KIMBERLY A. ELLIOTT, Institute for International Economics

RICHARD B. FREEMAN, Harvard University, LSE-CEP, and NBER)

Human Rights Vigilantes

Discussant: ARCHON FUNG, JFK School of Government, Harvard University

Discussant: MARK LEVINSON, Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile Employees

Discussant: THOMAS KOHLER, Boston College Law School

10:10-11:10am	CHIP HUNTER, The Wharton School, Univ of Pennsylvania

Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations

(Joint with EILEEN APPELBAUM, Economic Policy Institute)

Discussant: THOMAS KOCHAN, Sloan School of Management, MIT

Discussant: STEVE EARLY, Communication Workers of America

11:10-11:30am	BREAK

11:30-12:30	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

An Epidemiological Model of Unions

Discussant: ROBERT GIBBONS, Sloan School of Management, MIT and NBER

Discussant: LAWRENCE MISHEL, Economic Policy Institute

12:30-1:30	LUNCH

UNIONIZATION FOR NEW GROUPS AND EFFECTS OF DECLINE

1:30- 2:30pm	CAROL SIMON, Boston University School of Public Health

Unionization Among Doctors

Discussant: DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant: THOMAS KOHLER, Boston College Law School

2:30-3:30pm	RICHARD HURD, Cornell University

White Collar Unionization

Discussant: DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Discussant: DONENE WILLIAMS, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers

3:30-4pm	BREAK

4-5:00pm	JONI HERSCH, Harvard Law School

Time for an Employees' Lobby?

Discussant: JAMES REBITZER, Weatherhead Sch of Mgmt, Case Western Reserve & NBER

Discussant: ELAINE BERNARD, Harvard University Trade Union Program

6:00 pm	DINNER - Poppa & Goose, 69 First St, East Cambridge 497-6772

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

8:30-9am	COFFEE and PASTRIES

ADVOCACY AND NON-ELECTED REPRESENTATION GROUPS

9-10:00am	CHRISTINE JOLLS, Harvard Law School and NBER

The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of Employment Laws

Discussant: KIP VISCUSI, Harvard Law School and NBER

Discussant: DAVID WEIL, Boston University

10-11:00am	JOHN E. DINARDO, University of CA, Irvine and NBER

A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the Non-Wage Aspects of Work

(Joint with THOMAS C. BUCHMUELLER, Graduate School of Management, Univ of CA, Irvine and NBER, and ROBERT G. VALLETTA, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Discussant: ELI BERMAN, Boston University and NBER

Discussant: SHELDON FRIEDMAN, AFL-CIO Public Policy Dept

11am-11:15am	BREAK

COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS

11:15-12:15	LISA LYNCH, Tufts University and NBER

Labor Market Intermediaries for the Training of Low-Wage Workers

Discussant: RICHARD MURNANE, Harvard University Grad School of Education and NBER

Discussant: TIM COSTELLO, Workers Center

ADJOURN