2012 Workshop on Skills, Tasks and Human Capital
October 12, 2012
4161 Social Science Centre
Fourth Floor
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
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| 9:30-10:30 | "The Specificity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice" Ronni Pavan, University of Rochester |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:45 | "Occupations, Field of Study, and Substitution Across Skill Groups" Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia |
| 11:45-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | "Skill Uncertainty, Skill Accumulation and Occupational Choice" Carl Sanders, Washington University at St. Louis |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 2:45-3:45 | "Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets" David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with David Dorn and Gordon Hanson) |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | "Changes in Returns to Task-Specific Skills and Gender Wage Gap" Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University |
| 5:30-7:30 | Drinks at Grad Bar |
| 7:45 | Dinner at Kantina (349 Talbot Street - 519-672-5862) |
StationPark All Suite Hotel: 242 Pall Mall Street (519-642-4444)
