New Labor Market Institutions and the Public Policy Response:
A Symposium to Honor Lloyd Ulman

Saturday, October 27, 2007    8:30am-5:30pm

 

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment - Library Commons
2521 Channing Way, #5555
Berkeley, CA 94720-5555

This event is open and free to the public. Further Information: Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu

PROGRAM                                                                                                    EVENT PHOTOS

 

8:30am - 9:00am     Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:30am     Political Economy and Labor Market Institutions

Chair: Barry Eichengreen, Economics Department, UC Berkeley
Sanford Jacoby, Anderson School of Management, UCLA, “Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy”
Frank Levy, Economics Department, MIT, “Institutions and Wages in Post-World War II America”
David Soskice, Duke University and Oxford University, “American Exceptionalism and Comparative Political Economy”
Discussant: Peter Rappoport

10:30am - 11:00am    Break

11:00am - 12:30pm    Institutions and Labor Market Behavior

Chair: James Peoples, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Clair Brown, Economics Department, UC Berkeley, “How Good Are U.S. Jobs? Characteristics of Job Ladders across Firms in Five Industries”
Paola Giuliano, Harvard University, IMF and IZA, “Ties that Matter: Cultural Norms and Economic Behavior in Western Europe”
Yoshifumi Nakata, Economics Department Doshisha University, “Increasing Labor Flexibility During the Recession in Japan: The Role of Female Workers in Manufacturing” Figures and Tables
Paul Ryan, Unfortunately Prof. Ryan is unable to attend, his paper will be included in the volume.
Discussant: David Levine, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

12:30pm - 1:30pm     Buffet Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm     Labor-Management Relations

Chair: Marlene Kim, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Robert Flanagan, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, “Symphony Musicians and Symphony Orchestras”
Teresa Ghilarducci, Economics Department, Notre Dame University, “The New Treaty of Detroit: Are Voluntary Employee Benefits Associations Organized Labor’s Way Forward, or the Remnants of a Once Glorious Past”?
Knut Gerlach, Leibniz University Hannover, “Wage Effects of Works Councils and Collective Agreements in Germany”
Discussant: Harry Katz, ILR School, Cornell University

3:00pm - 3:30pm     Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm     Public Policy and U.S. Labor Markets

Chair: Barbara Bergmann, American University (emerita)
David Card, Economics Department, UC Berkeley, “How Immigration Affects U.S. Cities”
Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, “Understanding the Causes and Labor Market Consequences of the Steep Increase in U.S. Incarceration Rates”
Michael Reich, Economics Department, UC Berkeley, “Minimum Wages in the United States: Politics and Economics”
Discussant: William Dickens, School of Public Policy, Universtiy of Maryland

5:00pm - 5:30pm     Champagne toast to Lloyd Ulman with reply by Lloyd