Trade and Labour Perspectives on Worker Turnover

Held at the University of Nottingham on 27th and 28th June, 2003

The Convenors:

• Carl Davidson, Michigan State University
• Steve Matusz, Michigan State University
• Richard Upward, University of Nottingham
• Peter Wright, University of Nottingham

Downloads

• Programme outline.
• Registration form.

Session 1: Trade and Labour Market Structure

• John McLaren (University of Virginia) and Shubham Chaudhuri (Columbia University)
  The Simple Analytics of Trade and Labour Mobility
• Udo Kreickemeier (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  Efficiency Wages and Unemployment in a Global Economy

 

Session 2: Mobility and Trade

• Richard Upward and Peter Wright (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  Skill Upgrading and Occupational Mobility in the US and UK During the 1990s
• Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz (Michigan State University)
  Trade and Turnover: Theory and Evidence

 

Session 3: Trade Liberalisation and Labour Markets in Transition Economies

• Atanas Christev (Heriot-Watt University), Olga Kupets (Kiev Mohyla Academy) and Hartmut Lehmann (Heriot-Watt University)
  Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Ukraine
• David Brown (Heriot-Watt University) and John Earle (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)
  Inter-Establishment Reallocation, Productivity Growth and the Effects of Privatization and Liberalization

 

Session 4: Liberalisation and Adjustment

• Carsten Eckel (University of Passau)
• Labour Market Adjustments to Globalisation: Unemployment versus Relative Wages
• Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College) and Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University)
  The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalisation

 

Session 5: Trade Exposure and Gross Flows in the Labour Market

• Scott Schuh (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), Michael Klein (Tufts University) and Robert Triest (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
  Permanent and Temporary Job Flows and the Real Exchange Rate
• Barbara Dluhosch (University of Hamburg)
  Trade Exposure, Fragmentation and Labour Market Flows

 

Session 6: Immigration and Employment

• Nicolas Schmitt (University of Geneva) and Jean Mercenier (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
• International Brain Mobility and Intra-Industry Trade
• Scott Bradford (Brigham Young University)
  Protection and Unemployment

 

Session 7: Imperfect Markets, Trade and Labour

• Catia Montagna (University of Dundee)
• The Welfare State, Market Imperfections and International Trade
• Daniel Mirza and Mauro Pisu (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  The Impact of Trade on Labour Demand Elasticities under Imperfect Competition

 

Session 8: Political Economy Models

• Chris Magee (Bucknell University), Carl Davidson (Michigan State University) and Steven Matusz (Michigan State University)
  Trade, Turnover and Tithing
• Pushan Dutt (University of Alberta) and Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)
• Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Analysis