Canadian International Labour Network: Third
Major Conference
Travelodge Hotel, 2020 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario
September 24-25, 2000
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Saturday, September 23
5:00 - 9:00 pm Registration
Hotel Lobby
Sunday, September 24 (Concurrent Sessions)
8:30 - 9:30 am Registration outside
Nelson Rooms
9:00 - 9:30 am Coffee and Continental
Breakfast Nelson Room III
9:30 - 11:30 am
(Wages 1)
Trends in Inequality
Nelson Rooms I & II
Chair: Peter Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara)
James Ted McDonald (Tasmania), Christopher Worswick* (Carleton)
Earnings
and Employment Probabilities of Men by Education and Birth Cohort, 1982-96:
Evidence
for the United States, Canada and Australia
Discussant of Worswick's paper: Deborah Cobb-Clark
(ANU)
Paul Beaudry, David Green* (University of British Columbia)
Explaining Wage Inequality Patterns in Germany and the US:
The Role of Physical and Human Capital
Discussant of Green's paper: Susan Johnson (Laurier)
John B Burbidge*, L Magee, A L Robb (CILN & McMaster)
Married
Couple Family Earnings Inequality in Canada and the US
Discussant of Burbidge's: Garnett Picot (CILN &
Statistics Canada)
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| 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Lunch Nelson Room III
1:00 - 3:00 pm |
Session A (Unemployment 1)
The Behaviour of the Unemployed
Nelson Room I
Chair: Stephen Jones (CILN & McMaster)
Miles Corak* (Statistics Canada & Carleton)
Björn Gustafsson (Göteborg & IZA, Bonn)
Torun Österberg (Göteborg)
Intergenerational
Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
Discussant of Corak's paper: Susan Mayer (Chicago)
Ging Wong, Harold Henson (CILN & HRDC)
Job
Search and the Evaluation of Labour Market Information and Employment Services
Discussant of Wong's paper: Stephen Jones (CILN
& McMaster)
Marc Van Audenrode*, Jean-Yves Duclos (Université Laval) Jean-François
Bertrand (HRDC)
Unemployment
Insurance Take-Up and Reemployment
Discussant of van Audenrode's paper: Thomas F Crossley
(CILN & York & ANU)
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Session B (Wages 2)
Labour Mobility
Nelson Room II
Chair: Christopher Worswick (Carleton)
Heather Antecol (CILN & U Illinois)
Deborah Cobb-Clark * (Australian National University)
Stephen Trejo (University of Texas)
Immigration
Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United
States
Discussant of Cobb-Clark's paper: Arthur Sweetman
(Queen's)
John Kennan*, James Walker (Wisconsin)
Geographical
Wage Differentials, Welfare Benefits and Migration
Discussant of Kennan's paper: Sule Korkmaz (McMaster)
Harriet Duleep*, Daniel J Dowhan (Urban Institute)
Has
the Labor Market Quality of US Immigrants Fallen? Evidence from Longitudinal
Data
Discussant of Duleep's paper: James Ted McDonald
(Tasmania)
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee
3:30 - 5:30 pm |
Session A (Family 1)
Consumption
Nelson Room I
Chair: Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie)
Martin Browning*, Mette Ejrnæs (U Copenhagen)
Consumption
and Children
Discussant of Browning's paper: Thomas DeLeire
(Chicago)
Valérie Lechene* (Oxford), Ian Preston (University College
London and Institute for Financial Studies)
Departures
from Slutsky Symmetry in Household Demand Models
Discussant of Lechene's paper: Martin Browning
(CILN & Copenhagen)
Lori Curtis* (CILN & Dalhousie)
JoAnn Kingston-Riechers (Dalhousie)
Implications
of the Goods and Services Tax for Families in Canada
Discussant of Curtis's paper: Adrienne ten Cate
(McMaster & HRDC)
Frances Woolley (Carleton)
Control
over Money in Marriage
Discussant of Woolley's paper: Lori Curtis (CILN
& Dalhousie)
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Session B (Wages 3)
Gender and Ethnic Wage Differentials
Nelson Room II
Chair: Deborah Cobb-Clark (ANU)
Heather Antecol *(CILN & U Illinois)
Kelly Bedard (UC Santa Barbara)
The
Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black and White Women
Discussant of Antecol's paper: Harriet Duleep (Urban
Institute)
Michael Baker* (Toronto & NBER)
Nicole Fortin (UBC & CRDE & CIRANO)
Does
Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?
Discussant of Baker's paper: Heather Antecol (CILN
& U Illinois)
Gillian Hamilton*, Aloysius Siow (Toronto)
Class,
Gender and Marriage
Discussant of Hamilton's paper: Mikal Skuterud
(McMaster)
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5:30 - onward Pepperwood Bistro
(1455 Lakeshore Road)
5:30 - 7:00 pm Meeting area for CILN guests
(cash bar only)
7:00 pm
Conference Dinner
Monday, September 25 (Concurrent Sessions)
9:00 - 9:30 am Coffee and Continental
Breakfast Nelson Room III
9:30 - 11:30 am |
Session A (Family 2)
Inter Generational Mobility
Nelson Room I
Chair: Lori Curtis (CILN & Dalhousie)
Susan Mayer * (Chicago) Leonard M Lopo (Chicago)
Has
the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Discussant of Mayer's paper: Valerie Lechene (CILN
& Oxford)
Adrienne ten Cate (McMaster & HRDC)
Labour
Market Effects of Parental Leave Policy in Canada
Discussant of ten Cate's paper: Karsten Albæk
(CILN & Copenhagen)
Anders Björklund*, Katarina Richardsson (Stockholm)
How Adopted Children Fare in the Swedish Labor
Market
Discussant of Bjorklund's paper: David Green (CILN
& UBC)
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Session B (Wages 4)
Non-Cognitive Skills and Labour Market Outcomes
Nelson Room II
Chair: Rebecca Warburton (Victoria)
Peter Kuhn, Catherine Weinberger * (UC Santa Barbara)
Leadership
Skills and Labor Market Outcomes
Discussant of Weinberger's paper: Michael Ornstein
(York)
David Autor (MIT & NBER), Frank Levy (MIT) and Richard J Murnane
* (Harvard & NBER)
The
Skill Content of Recent Technological Change:
An
Empirical Exploration
Discussant of Murnane's paper: Thomas Lemieux (CILN
& UBC)
Thomas DeLeire* (Chicago), Margo Coleman (Child Welfare League of America)
An
Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment
Decision
Discussant of DeLeire's paper: Shannon Seitz (Queen's)
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| 11:30 - 1:00 pm Lunch Nelson
Room III
1:00 - 3:00 pm |
Session A (Family 3)
Canada and the United States
Nelson Room I
Chair: A Leslie Robb (CILN & McMaster)
Shelley Phipps*, Lori Curtis (CILN & Dalhousie)
Poverty
and Child Well-Being in Canada and the United States: Does it Matter How
We Measure Poverty?
Discussant of Phipp's paper: Frances Woolley (Carleton)
Keith Banting (CILN & Queen’s)
Disembedded Liberalism? The Emerging Social Accommodation in Northern
North America
Discussant of Banting's paper: Ging Wong (HRDC)
Michael Baker (CILN & Toronto & NBER), Jonathan Gruber (MIT
& NBER), Kevin Milligan* (Toronto)
Income
Security Programs and Retirement in Canada
Discussant of Baker's paper: John Burbidge (McMaster)
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Session B (Unemployment 2)
Unemployment and Wage Determination
Nelson Room II
Chair: John Kennan (CILN & Wisconsin)
Thomas Lemieux * (UBC & CIRANO), Jean Farés (Bank of Canada)
Downward
Nominal Wage Rigidity: A Critical Assessment and Some New Evidence
for Canada
Discussant of Lemieux's paper: John Kennan (CILN &
Wisconsin)
Karsten Albæk* (Copenhagen) et al
Dimensions
of the Wage-Unemployment Relationship in the Nordic Countries: Wage
Flexibility without Wage Curves
Discussant of Albaek's paper: Anders Björklund
(Stockholm)
Louise Grogan *(CILN & McMaster)
Audra Bowlus (UWO)
Equilibrium
Job Search and Gender Wage Differentials in the UK
Discussant of Grogan's paper: Stephen Jones (CILN
& McMaster)
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee
3:30 - 5:30 pm |
Session A (Family 4)
Welfare and Income Inequality
Nelson Room I
Chair: John Burbidge (CILN & McMaster)
Arthur Sweetman (CILN & Queen's)
Bill Warburton, Linda DeBenedictis (BC Ministry of Social Development
and Economic Security)
Rebecca Warburton* (U Victoria)
Disability
Benefits and Impacts on Welfare Dependence and Health
Discussant of Warburton's paper: Louise Grogan
(CILN & McMaster)
Jörgen Hansen * (IZA, Bonn), Magnus Lofstrom (IZA,
Bonn)
Immigrant
Assimilation and Welfare Participation:
Do
Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out of Welfare?
Discussant of Hansen's paper: Shelley Phipps (CILN
& Dalhousie)
Martin Dooley* (CILN & McMaster)
Ross Finnie (Queen's)
An
Analysis of Differences in Labour Force Participation, Earnings and Welfare
Participation Among Canadian Lone Mothers Using Longitudinal Data
Discussant of Dooley's paper: Christopher Worswick
(Carleton)
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Session B (Unemployment 3)
Joblessness and Training
Nelson Room II
Chair: Michael Veall (CILN & McMaster)
Thomas F Crossley *(CILN & York & ANU)
Bruce Chapman (ANU)
Taejong Kim (York & National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies,
Japan)
Credit Constraints and Retraining by the Jobless
Discussant of Crossley's paper: Marc van Audenrode (Laval)
Jeffrey Smith* (University of Western Ontario)
Petra Todd (U Pennsylvania)
Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?
Discussant of Smith's paper: Michael Veall (CILN
& McMaster)
Stephen Jones* (CILN & McMaster)
W Craig Riddell (CILN & UBC)
The
Dynamics of US Labor Force Attachment
Discussant of Jones's paper: Audra Bowlus (UWO)
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