Trade and Labor Markets

Gordon H. Hanson and Stephen J. Redding, Organizers

October 13-14, 2017

Cambridge

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, October 13
10:00 am
Coach Bus leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
10:15 am
Continental Breakfast
10:45 am
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
Hong Ma, Tsinghua University
Yuan Xu, Beijing Normal University

US Exports and Employment (slides)
Discussant: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:45 am
Break
12:00 pm
Illenin Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Trade Displacement Multipliers: Theory and Evidence Using the U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance
Discussant: Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Eunhee Lee, Seoul National University
Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston and NBER

Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply
Discussant: Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Spencer Lyon, New York University
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Redistributing the Gains From Trade through Progressive Taxation
Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Runjuan Liu, University of Alberta
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER

A Sorted Tale of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
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
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER
Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade
Discussant: Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER

Trade Liberalization and Investment: Evidence from the U.S. Granting of PNTR to China
Discussant: Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Benjamin G. Hyman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
Discussant: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
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 at Irvine

U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
Discussant: Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Shushanik Hakobyan, International Monetary Fund
John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER

NAFTA and the Gender Wage Gap
Discussant: Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University
3:15 pm
Adjourn