9:15 - 9:30

Welcome and Introduction

• Sascha O. Becker (Univ of Warwick)
• Marc-Andreas Muendler (Univ of California, San Diego)
• Marion Jansen (International Labour Office)

9:30 - 11:00

Session 1: Globalization, Sorting and Wage Premia

Chair: Sascha O. Becker (Univ of Warwick)

• Francis Kramarz (CREST Paris): Dissecting the French Export Wage Premium (with Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, and Raul Sampognaro) Discussant: Marc-Andreas Muendler (Univ of California, San Diego)

• Carl Davidson and Susan Zhu (Michigan State Univ): Globalization and Imperfect Labour Market Sorting (with Fredrik Heyman, Steven Matusz and Fredrik Sjoholm)
  Discussant: Sergio Firpo (FGV, Sao Paolo)

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45

Session 2: Trade Integration and Labour Reallocation

Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler (Univ of California, San Diego)

• Shushanik Hakobyan (Middlebury College): Looking for Local Labour Market Effects of the NAFTA (with John McLaren)
  Discussant: Avraham Ebenstein (Hebrew Univ)

• Kerem Cosar (Univ of Chicago): Adjusting to Trade Liberalization: Reallocation and Labour Market Policies
  Discussant: Brian Kovak (Carnegie Mellon Univ)

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:45

Keynote Address

Elhanan Helpman (Harvard Univ and CIFAR Toronto)

“Trade and Labor Market Outcomes” (joint with Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding)

Photo 1. Elhanan Helpman delivering his keynote address

14:45 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 16:30

Session 3: Trade, Occupations and Tasks

Chair: Marion Jansen (International Labour Office)

• Jeanne Tschopp (HEC Lausanne): The Wage Response to Shocks: The Role of Inter-Occupational Labor Adjustment
  Discussant: Karolina Ekholm (Riksbank Sweden)

• Hugo Rojas-Romagosa (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis): Wage Inequality in Trade-in-Tasks Models
  Discussant: Maurice Kugler (World Bank)

16:30 – 16:45

Coffee break

16:45 – 17:30

Session 4: International Migration

Chair: Karolina Ekholm (Riksbank Sweden)

• Sanjay Jain (Univ of Cambridge : Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization (with Sumon Majumdar and Sharun W. Mukand)
  Discussant: Kjell Erik Lommerud (Univ of Bergen)

19:30

Conference dinner

Friday June 24, 2011

8:30 - 10:00

Session 5: Offshoring, Technical Change and Wages

Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler (Univ of California, San Diego)

• Jonathan Vogel (Columbia Univ): Importing Skill-Biased Technology (with Ariel Burstein and Javier Cravino)
  Discussant: Ingo Geishecker (Univ of Göttingen)

• Maarten Goos (Catholic Univ Leuven): Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization and Institutions (with Alan Manning and Anna Salomons)
• Discussant: Sascha O. Becker (Univ of Warwick)

10:00 - 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 - 11:00

Keynote Address

David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (CEMFI), Gordon Hanson (UCSD)

“The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the US”

Photo 2. David Autor delivering his keynote address

11:00 – 12:30

Session 6: Labour market Frictions and Globalization

Chair: Sascha O. Becker (Univ of Warwick)

• Mario Larch (Univ of Bayreuth): Capacity Constraining Labour Market Frictions in a Global Economy (with Christian Holzner)
  Discussant: Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA)

• Giordano Mion (London School of Economics): Managers’ Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages (with Luca David Opromiolla)
  Discussant: Christoph Moser (ETH Zürich]

12:45 - 14.00

Lunch