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
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, ITAM and BROOKS PIERCE,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Firm-Wide Versus Establishment-Specific Pay Practices
2:00 PM Break
SI00 LS Program
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INCENTIVES IN THE LABOR MARKET
2:15 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER
Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
3:15 PM Adjourn
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
SI00 LS Program
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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
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, University of Chicago
Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates
2:00 PM Break
SI00 LS Program
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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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