2011 Conference
UM-MSU-UWO Labor Day Conference
May 18th, 2011
University of Western Ontario
**Note room change now in Economics Department
Room 4161, SSC, UWO
Sponsored by
CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity
Registration for Western Participants
Please e-mail Leslie Kostal (Subject Line: Labor Day Conference) to provide the following information:
- Name
- Confirmation for attendance at lunch (Sponsored by CIBC)
- Confirmation for attendance at dinner (Honest Lawyer, 228 Dundas Street, Downtown London)
Directions to:
- UWO (Required documentation for land borders.)
- Social Science Centre
- Parking (The parking attendant behind the Social Science building will provide free parking to Labor Day Conference participants. For detailed instructions, click on the "Clickable Map": Social Science Lot.)
- Room 9420 (Follow the ramp to the back doors of the building. Use the elevators on the left to the 9th floor. Signs will direct you to Room 9420.)
- Parking (The parking attendant behind the Social Science building will provide free parking to Labor Day Conference participants. For detailed instructions, click on the "Clickable Map": Social Science Lot.)
Conference Dinner:
Accommodations:
For conference participants in need of accommodation, the following options are available:
- Station Park Inn - located in downtown London (For a special conference rate, identify yourself as a U.W.O. visitor.)
- Windermere Manor - located just north of the UWO campus
- Western Bed and Breakfast - located in Elgin Hall on the UWO Campus (basic, most economical)
- Delta London Armouries -- located in downtown London (For a special conference rate, identify yourself as a U.W.O. visitor.)
Schedule
| 9:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
|---|---|
| 10:00 am | Masashi Miyairi (University of Western Ontario) "Immigrant Job Search Behavior and Wage Assimilation in Canada" |
| 11:00 am | Melvin Stephens (University of Michigan) "Schooling Laws, School Quality and the Returns to Schooling" (with Dou-Yan Yang) (slides) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (Sponsored by CIBC) |
| 1:00 pm | Jesse Gregory (University of Michigan) "The Impact of Grants and Wage Subsidies on the Resettlement Choices of Hurricane Katrina Victims" |
| 2:00 pm | Stephen Woodbury (Michigan State University) "Long-Term Effects of the Work Test and Job Search Assistance: Reexamining the Washington Alternative Work Search Experiment" (with Merve Cebi) |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Elizabeth Quin (Michigan State University) "Guaranteed Transfer Policies and Post-Secondary Outcomes" |
| 4:30 pm | Youngki Shin (University of Western Ontario) "Testing for Distributional Treatment Effects: A Set Identification Approach" (with Sung Jae Jun and Yoonseok Lee) |
| 5:30 pm | End of Conference: Dinner (Honest Lawyer: 228 Dundas Street, Downtown London) |
*The conference is open to faculty, post-docs and graduate students at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
Papers (and accommodation information) will be posted as they become available.
