The Impact of International Competition on Firms and Workers

Held on 9th November, 2006 at University of Nottingham.

Conference Convenors: Richard Upward and Peter Wright.

Presentations

• Ingo Geishecker (Freie Universität Berlin)
  International Outsourcing and Job Security: A Micro-Level Analysis
• Alex Hijzen (OECD), Richard Upward and Peter Wright (University of Nottingham)
  Services Offshoring and Job Security
• Francis Kramarz
  Outsourcing, Unions, and Wages: Evidence from data matching imports, Firms, and workers
• Pedro Martins (Queen Mary) and Luiz Esteves (UFPR and Siena)
  The foreign-firm wage premium in Brazil: evidence from firm acquisitions and job movers
• Udo Kreickemeier (GEP) and Hartmut Egger (Zurich)
  Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade liberalisation
• Carl Davidson and Steve Matusz (Michigan State)
  Outsourcing Peter to Pay Paul
• Hervé Boulhol (IXIS-CIB and CES, Paris) Sabien Dobbelaere (Ghent) and Sara Maioli (GEP)
  Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
• Peter Egger and Sascha O. Becker (Munich)
  Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export