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Welcome
Steven Matusz – Michigan State University

Chair: Peter Wright

Session I: Testing Trade Models

1.

Carl Davidson – Michigan State University 
"Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization with Heterogeneous Agents"

2.

Susan Zhu – Michigan State University
"Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization with Heterogeneous Agents – Data and Empirical Specifications"

Session II: Empirical Studies 1

1.

Fredrik Sjöholm – Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
"Multinational Firms and Job Tasks"

2.

Alexander Hijzen – OECD
"Do Multinational Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis"

Session III: Theoretical Developments 1

Devashish Mitra – Syracuse University, and Priya Ranjan – University of California, Irvine
"Offshoring, Firm Heterogeneity and the Labor Market: Some Testable Implications"

2.

Udo Kreickemeier – Nottingham University
"Fairness, Trade, and Inequality"

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Session IV: Theoretical Developments 2

Nicholas Sly – Michigan State University
"International Trade, Wages and Unemployment with Endogenous Firm Scope"

Stephen Redding – Yale University
"Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy"

Session V: Matched Worker-Firm Data 1

Chair: Carl Davidson

Pedro Martins – Queen Mary
"Brazilian and Portuguese Data"

 Peter Wright – University of Nottingham 
"UK Data"

Thorsten Schank – University of Nurnberg
"German Data"

Session VI: Empirical Studies 2

Fredrik Heyman – Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
"FDI and Wages"

 Richard Upward – University of Nottingham
"Estimating Worker and Firm Heterogeneity using Linked Employer-Employee Data" 

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Chair: Steven Matusz

Session VII: Theoretical Developments 3

1.

Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson – Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
"Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency"

2.

Gabriel Felbermayr – University of Hohenheim
"Unemployment in an Interdependent World"

Session VIII: Matched Worker-Firm Data 2 

1.

Anders Åkerman – Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
"Swedish Data"

2.

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala – Helsinki School of Economics
"Finnish Data"

3.

Fabrice Defever – University of Nottingham
"French Data"