Trade and Labor Markets.

• Position: Conferences

A conference on trade and labor markets sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation took place in Cambridge October 13-14. Research Associates Gordon H. Hanson of the University of California, San Diego and Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER, and Hong Ma and Yuan Xu, Tsinghua University, "U.S. Exports and Employment"

* Illenin Kondo, University of Notre Dame, "Trade Displacement Multipliers: Theory and Evidence Using the U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance"

* Eunhee Lee, University of Maryland, and Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston and NBER, "Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply"

* Spencer Lyon, New York University, and Michael E. Waugh, New York University and NBER, "Redistributing the Gains from Trade through Progressive Taxation"

* Runjuan Liu, University of Alberta, and Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER, "A Sorted Tale of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring" (NBER Working Paper No. 17559)

* Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER, and Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University...