Labor in the Global Economy.

An NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Labor in the Global Economy" took place in Cambridge on May 11 and 12. Labor. Studies Program Director Richard Freeman, NBER and Harvard University, was the organizer. Eli Berman, NBER and Boston University, and Morris M. Kleiner, NBER and University of Minnesota, were moderators. The program was:

Andrew B. Bernard, NBER and Dartmouth College; J. Bradford Jensen, University of Maryland; and Peter K. Schott, Yale University, "Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States" (NBER Working Paper No. 8068)

Discussant: Eli Berman

Dae-Il Kim, Seoul National University, and Peter Mieszkowski, Rice University, "The Effects of International Trade on Wage Inequality in the United States"

Discussants: Bernardo S. Blum, University of California, Los Angeles, and Eli Berman

Linda Goldberg and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Exchange Rates and Wages" (NBER Working Paper No. 8137)

Discussant: Lori Kletzer, University of California, Santa Cruz.

James P. Smith, Duncan Thomas, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Kathleen Beagle, and Graciela Teruel, RAND, "Wages, Employment, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Indonesia"

Discussants: David E. Bloom, NBER and Harvard University, and John R. Harris, Boston University

Belton M. Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang, Ohio State University, "Skill Differentials, Returns to Schooling, and Market Segmentation in a Transition Economy: The Case of Mainland China"

Discussant: Gary H. Jefferson, Brandeis University

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Princeton University, and Keong T. Woo, KPMG "The Impact of Outsourcing to China on Hong Kong's Labor Market"

Discussant: Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, University of Notre Dame

Ju-Ho Lee, Korea Development Institute; Young-Kye Moh, Ohio State University; and Dae-Il Kim, Seoul National University "Do Unions Inhibit Labor Flexibility? Lessons from Korea"

Discussant: David L. Linduer, Wellesley College

Andrew M. Warner, Harvard University, "International Wage Determination and Globalization"

Discussants: Malcolm Cohen, University of Michigan, and Peter Gottschalk, Boston College

Gary Fields, Paul Cichello, David Newhouse, and Samuel Frieje, Cornell University; and Marta Menendez, DELTA, "A Four Country Story: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela"

Discussants: Peter Gottschalk and John R. Harris

Morris M. Kleiner, and Hwikwon Ham, University of Minnesota, "Do Industrial Relations Institutions Affect Economic...