Trade and Labor Markets
Organized by Gordon H. Hanson and Stephen J. Redding
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
October 13-14, 2017
Cambridge
Friday, October 13
10:00 am
Coach Bus leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
10:15 am
Continental Breakfast
10:45 am

US Exports and Employment (slides)

Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
Hong Ma, Tsinghua University
Yuan Xu, Beijing Normal University

Discussant:
Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:45 am
Break
12:00 pm

Trade Displacement Multipliers: Theory and Evidence Using the U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance

Illenin Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant:
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply

Eunhee Lee, Seoul National University
Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston and NBER

Discussant:
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Redistributing the Gains From Trade through Progressive Taxation

Spencer Lyon, New York University
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Discussant:
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm

A Sorted Tale of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring

Runjuan Liu, University of Alberta
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER

Discussant:
James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
5:40 pm
Coach Bus leaves NBER for EVOO Restaurant
6:00 pm
Dinner
EVOO Restaurant
350 Third Street
Cambridge, MA

Dinner Speaker: Edward Leamer, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Saturday, October 14
7:45 am
Coach Bus leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER
Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Discussant:
Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Trade Liberalization and Investment: Evidence from the U.S. Granting of PNTR to China

Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

Benjamin G. Hyman, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock

Brian J. Asquith, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Sanjana Goswami, National University of Singapore
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, University of California, Irvine

Discussant:
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

NAFTA and the Gender Wage Gap

Shushanik Hakobyan, International Monetary Fund
John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER

Discussant:
Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University
3:15 pm
Adjourn