2006 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics
Labor Markets Mobilization and Economic Development in a
Harmonious Society, with a Focus on Chinese Labor Markets
2006 当代劳动经济学国际研讨会
“构建劳动市场，促进经济发展和社会和谐——关注中国劳动市场”
December 16 - 18, 2006
Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)
and Department of Economics, School of Economics
Xiamen University, China
Last updated December 12, 2006 (presenters are bolded.)
December 16, 2006
Section 0 (8:15am-8:30am, Auditorium 301, Ke-Li Building): Opening Ceremony
Section Co-Chairs:
Yongmiao Hong (yh20@cornell.edu), Cornell University, USA, and Xiamen University,
China
Maozu Lu (M.Lu@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton, UK and Xiamen University,
China
8:15-8:30: Welcoming Speech, Luolin Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
and Xiamen University, China
Section 1 (8:30am-10:15am, Auditorium 301, Ke-Li Building, English) Keynote Session I:
China's Labor Market: Overviews
Section Chair: John Whalley (jwhalley@uwo.ca), University of Western Ontario, Canada,
NBER, USA and CESifo, Germany
[1] 8:30-9:05: "Making Labor Relations Work for China: Lessons from the Outside World"
Richard Freeman (freeman@nber.org), Harvard University and NBER, USA
[2] 9:05-9:40: "China's Three Transitions and Its Implications for Social Security and Labor
Market"
Athar Hussain (A.Hussain@lse.ac.uk), London School of Economics, UK
[3] 9:40-10:15: "Some Potential Stumbling Blocks in China's Growth Path"
Wing Thye Woo (wtwoo@ucdavis.edu), University of California, Davis, USA and
Brookings Institute, USA
10:15-10:45: Coffee Break
Section 2A (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Applied
Econometrics (I): Income
Section Chair: Maozu Lu (M.Lu@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton, UK and Xiamen
University, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "One-Child Policy, Fertility and Growth"
Hongbin Li (lhongbin@cuhk.edu.hk), Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR,
China
Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to
Education: Evidence from China"
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
Xuesong Li (xsli@cass.org.cn), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "A Spatial Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Labor Migration on the
Disparity of Regional Economic Development in Mainland China"
Zhengming Qian, Xiamen University
Xiuhua Zhang, Xiamen University
Yangping Yu, Xiamen University
Pengfei Guo, Xiamen University
Section 2B (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, English) Labor Markets of
OECD Countries (I): Public Policy
Section Chair: Xianguo Yao (cec_yaoxg@zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang University, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "Does the Impact of Welfare to Work Depend on the State of the Labor
Market? The Case of the UK New Deal for Young People"
Duncan McVicar, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Jan Podivinsky (jmp@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton, UK
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Unemployment Insurance's Time-varying Impacts on Re-employment
Wages"
Kailing Shen (klshen@xmu.edu.cn), Xiamen University, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities,
Decompositions"
Bernd Fitzenberger, Goethe University Frankfurt, IFS, ZEW and IZA Bonn
Karsten Kohn, Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA Bonn
Qingwei Wang (wang@zew.de), Goethe University Frankfurt and ZEW (Centre for
European Economic Research), Germany
Section 2C (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) China's Labor
Market (I)
Section Chair: Biying Wu (biyingwu@yahoo.com.cn), Xiamen University, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "Research on the Relation between the Phenomenon of Shortage of Rural
Migrants and Industrial Structure Change：a Case Study in Guangdong"
Xinmin Chen (xinmin66@sina.com), South China Normal University, China
Yonggui Yang, South China Normal University, China
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Employment (tentative)"
Desheng Lai (email), Beijing Normal University, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "Employment (tentative)"
Heqing Yang (YangHeQing8@hotmail.com), Capital University of Economics and
Business, China
12:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch
Section 3 (2:15pm-4:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Keynote Session II:
Econometrics
Section Chair: Chung-Ming Kuan (ckuan@econ.sinica.edu.tw), Academia Sinica, Taiwan,
China
[1] 2:15-2:50: "Estimating Counterfactuals in Duration Models with Heterogeneity: Labor
Market Program Evaluation"
Jerry Hausman (jhausman@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
[2] 2:50-3:25: "The Information Basis of Matching with Propensity Scores"
Esfandiar Maasoumi (maasoumi@smu.edu), Southern Methodist University, USA
Ozkan Eren, Southern Methodist University, USA
[3] 3:25-4:00: "Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training"
J. Adda, University College London and IFS, UK
C. Dustmann, University College London and IFS, UK
Costas Meghir (c.meghir@ucl.ac.uk), University College London, UK
J. -M. Robin; University of Paris 1, France, University College London and IFS, UK
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break
Section 4A (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Applied Econometrics
(II)
Section Chair: Zongwu Cai (zcai@uncc.edu), University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
USA and Xiamen University, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "Generalized Residual-Based Diagnostic Testing for Duration Models with
Censoring"
Jing Liu, Cornell University, USA
Yongmiao Hong (yh20@cornell.edu), Cornell University, USA and Xiamen University,
China
[2] 5:00-5:30: "Evaluating the Impacts of Washington State Repeated Job Search Services on
the Earnings of Prime-age Female TANF Recipients"
Cheng Hsiao (chsiao@usc.edu), University of Southern California, USA and Xiamen
University, China
Yan Shen, Peking University, China
Boqing Wang, Department of Social and Health Services, USA
Greg Weeks, Employment Security Department, USA
[3] 5:30-6:00: "The Hausman Test for Correlated Effects in Panel Data Models under
Misspecification"
Raymond O'Brien (rjo@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton, UK
Eleonora Patacchini, University of Rome, La Sapienza
Section 4B (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) China's Labor
Market and Public Policy: Current Issues (I)
Section Chair: Yuqun Yao (yaoyq@sohu.com), Renmin University of China, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "TBA"
Xiaoqiong Lai (xqlai@xmu.edu.cn), Xiamen University, China
[2] 5:00-5:30:"An Empirical Study of China's Pension Policy's Impacts on the Labor Market"
Zeying Wang (wzzzy@263.net), Ministry of Labor and Social Security, China
[3] 5:30-6:00:""Impacts of Subjective Expectations on Career Planning"
Junsheng Zhang (Zhjsh158@yahoo.com.cn), Capital University of Economics and
Business, China
Section 4C (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, Chinese) Rural Migrant
Workers in China: Theory
Section Chair: Daidai Lin (Lindaidai99@263.net), Beijing Jiaotong University, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "Modification and Apllication of Dual Economic Model: An Analysis and
Explanation of the Demand and Supply of the Rural Surplus Labor"
Yongjun Chen (chenyj1108@ruc.edu.cn), Renmin University of China, China
[2] 5:00-5:30: "Trade Unions in China's Labor Market: Confrontational or Cooperative"
Cheng Wang (wangcheng@cass.org.cn), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
[3] 5:30-6:00: "The Estimation of Human Capital in Chinese Cities"
Pingfang Zhu (pfzhu@mail.shufe.edu.cn), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China
Dafeng Xu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
6:00pm-8:00pm: Dinner
December 17, 2006
Section 5 (8:30am-10:15am, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Keynote Session III:
China's Labor Market and Public Policy: Current Issues (II)
Section Chair: Cheng Wang (wangcheng@cass.org.cn), Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, China
[1] 8:30-9:05: "Population and Labor Mobility: Some Conceptual Issues with reference to
China"
Yew-Kwang Ng (Kwang.Ng@BusEco.monash.edu.au), Monash University, Australia
[2] 9:05-9:40: "Education and Other Treatments in China: What Pays? What Does Not Pay?"
Junsen Zhang (jszhang@cuhk.edu.hk), Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR,
China
[3] 9:40-10:15: "The Segmentation of China's Social Security Programs and Labor Mobility"
Xuejin Zuo (xjzuo@sass.org.cn), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China
10:15-10:45: Coffee Break
Section 6A (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, English) Labor Markets of
OECD Countries (II)
Section Chair: Xuesong Li (xsli@cass.org.cn), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation"
Carmel Ullman Chiswick (cchis@uic.edu), University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Using a P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Public Use
Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vault"
Richard V. Burkhauser, Cornell University
Shuaizhang Feng (shuaizhang.feng@gmail.com), Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "American Exceptionalism in New Light: A Comparison of
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the
United States"
Markus Jantti, Abo Akademi University
Bernt Bratsberg, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Knut Roed, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Oddbjorn Raaum, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Robin Haylor, University of Warwick
Eva Osterbacka, Abo Akademi University
Anders Bjorkund, SOFI and IZA Bonn
Tor Eriksson (tor@asb.dk), Aarhus Business School, Denmark
Section 6B (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) Special Session on
China’s Statistical Methods
Section Chair: Yongmiao Hong (yh20@cornell.edu), Cornell University, USA and Xiamen
University, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "Chinese Statistical Methods and Data Collection"
Xianchun Xu (xuxc@stats.gov.cn), National Bureau of Statistics, China
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Industrial Statistical Methodology in China"
Xiaohui Wang, National Bureau of Statistics, China
Section 6C (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) Rural Migrant
Workers in China: Empirical Studies
Section Chair: Fangyu Fei (email), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
[1] 10:45-11:07: "The Migration in the Urbanization Process of China,"
Pei Li (ruchansy@yahoo.com.cn), Renmin University of China
[2] 11:07-11:29: "An Empirical Study on the Employment of Rural Migrant Workers and
Employment Promotion Situations: The Case of Beijing,"
Xuejing Lv (luxj@cueb.edu.cn), Capital University of Economics and Business, China
[3] 11:29-11:51: "Wage Forming Mechanism in the Market Transition Process of China
(1993-2004): Evidence from the Panel Data,"
Guangjie Ning (seanning@163.com), Nankai University, China
[4] 11:51-12:15: "Discrimination against Peasant Labor Have Little Effect on the Reduction
of Urban Poverty: A Discussion Based on a Heterogeneous Rural-Urban Migration
Model"
Haiyun Ye (hhyunyee@163.com), Shandong University, China
12:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch
Section 7 (2:15pm-4:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Keynote Session IV:
Theoretical Labor Economics and Public Policy (I)
Section Chair: Heqing Yang (YnagHeQing8@hotmail.com), Capital University of
Economics and Business, China
[1] 2:15-2:50: "Labor Retrenchment Laws and Regulations: A Theoretical Investigation with
Special Reference to Developing Countries"
Kaushik Basu (kb40@cornell.edu), Cornell University, USA
[2] 2:50-3:25: "Designing Optimal Unemployment Insurance"
Bertil Holmlund (Bertil.Holmlund@nek.uu.se), Uppsala University, Sweden
[3] 3:25-4:00: "Beneficial Brain Drain"
Oded Stark (ostark@uni-bonn.de), Universities of Klagenfurt, Bonn, and Vienna;
Warsaw University; ESCE Economic and Social Research Center, Cologne and
Eisenstadt
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break
Section 8A (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, English) Asia Labor Market
Section Chair: Jan Podivinsky (jmp@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton, UK
[1] 4:30-5:00: "Globalization and Wage Inequality in Taiwan Manufacturing: Evidence from
Quantile Regression Analysis"
Chien-Liang Chen (clchen@ncnu.edu.tw), Chi Nan University, Taiwan, China
Chung-Ming Kuan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China
[2] 5:00-5:30: "The ‘Twin-Engines’ of Growth in Singapore: Employment Linkages and
Structrual Changes in Manufacturing and Services"
Shandre M. Thangavelu (ecssmt@nus.edu.sg), Singapore National University,
Singapore
[3] 5:30-6:00: "Market Segmentation and Full-time and Part-time Wage Differentials in
Taiwan"
Mei Hsu (mhsu@mail.ntpu.edu.tw), National Taipei University, Taiwan, China
Section 8B (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) China's Labor
Market (II): Poverty and Inequality
Section Chair: Carmel Ullman Chiswick (cchis@uic.edu), University of Illinois at Chicago,
USA
[1] 4:30-5:00: "Does Inequality matter in China? An Empirical Enquiry"
Lina Song (lina.song@nottingham.ac.uk), University of Nottingham, UK
[2] 5:00-5:30: "Education, Human Capital and Regional Economic Differentials: An
Empirical Test Using China's Provincial Matched-Pair Data"
Xianguo Yao (cec_yaoxg@zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang University, China
[3] 5:30-6:00: "Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China"
Dewen Wang (wangdw@cass.org.cn), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Albert Park, University of Michigan, USA
Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Section 8C (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) China's Labor
Market (III): Income
Section Chair: Hao Chyi (hauchyi@gmail.com), Xiamen University, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "Rural Income Disparity and Human Capital Investment"
Weidong Jin (jinweidong1117@sohu.com), Nanjing University, China
[2] 5:00-5:30: "Skill-biased Technical change and Widening of Wage Structure"
Zhong Wang (wangzhong19@126.com), South China Normal University, China
[3] 5:30-6:00: "Wage, Subjective Utility and Rural Labor Migration"
Xingxiang Zhang (jjzz@xmu.edu.cn), The School of Economics, Xiamen University,
China
6:00pm-8:00pm: Dinner
December 18, 2006
Section 9 (8:30am-10:15am, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Keynote Session V:
Applied Labor Economics (I)
Section Chair: Xin Meng (xin.meng@anu.edu.au), Australian National University, Australia
[1] 8:30-9:05: "Computer Usage, Destination Language Proficiency and Earnings of Natives
and Immigrants"
Barry R. Chiswick (brchis@uic.edu), University of Illinois at Chicago, USA and
IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor, Germany
Paul W. Miller, University of Western Australia, Australia
[2] 9:05-9:40: "Neglected Topics in the Analysis of Welfare Duration in the West"
Robert Gregory (bob.gregory@anu.edu.au), Australian National University, Australia
[3] 9:40-10:15: "Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work"
Amelie Constant,IZA Bonn, DIW Berlin and Georgetown University
Liliya Gataullina, IZA Bonn
Klaus F. Zimmermann (Zimmermann@iza.org), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
DIW Berlin, University of Bonn, Free University of Berlin and CEPR London
10:15-10:45: Coffee Break
Section 10A (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) China's Labor
Market and Public Policy: Current Issues (III)
Section Chair: Shandre M. Thangavelu (ecssmt@nus.edu.sg), Singapore National
University, Singapore
[1] 10:45-11:15: "Fiscal Decentralization, Policy Holdup, and Rural Labor Mobility: An
Analysis of Chinese Rural Governments' Incentives to Promote Undocumented Labor
Mobility"
Yiu Por Chen (ychen16@depaul.edu), DePaul University, USA
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Higher Education Expansion in China: Origins and Impacts"
Yingyi Ma (yma03@maxwell.syr.edu), Syracuse University, USA
[3] 11:45-12:15: "The 1993 EITC Expansion and Low-Skilled Single Mothers' Welfare Use
Decision"
Hao Chyi (hauchyi@gmail.com), Xiamen University, China
Section 10B (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, Chinese) China's Labor
Market (IV): Employment
Section Chair: Xiaoqiong Lai (xqlai@xmu.edu.cn), Xiamen University, China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "An Empirical Study on the Distributing Characteristics and Determinants
of Job Vacancies: The Case of Beijing"
Kuang Tang (tangkuang@vip.sina.com), Renmin University of China
[2] 11:15-11:45: " Anti-Poverty in Urban Areas and Promotion of a Harmonious Society "
Biying Wu (biyingwu@yahoo.com.cn), Xiamen University, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "The Labor Market for University Graduates and Higher Education in
China"
Yuqun Yao (yaoyq@sohu.com), Renmin University of China, China
Section 10C (10:45am-12:15pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) China's Public
Health Policy
Section Chair: Pingfang Zhu (pfzhu@mail.shufe.edu.cn), Shanghai University of Finance,
China
[1] 10:45-11:15: "Wealth, Education and Health Investment --- Evidence from Rural China"
Bei Qin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jin Feng (jfeng_july@hotmail.com), Fudan University, China
[2] 11:15-11:45: "Innovations of Co-payment Health Care Mechanism Design in Xiamen
Rural Area"
Xiaowei Gong (tonygxw@hotmail.com), Xiamen Economic Research Institute, China
[3] 11:45-12:15: "Mobile Population, Disease and Public Health Policy"
Jun Wang (ausjun@hotmail.com), Nanjing Audit University, China
12:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch
Section 11 (2:15pm-4:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) Keynote Session VI:
Applied Labor Economics (II)
Section Chair: Xuejin Zuo (xjzuo@sass.org.cn), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences,
China
[1] 2:15-2:50: "Where the Boys No Longer Are: Recent Trends in USA College Enrollment
Patterns"
Patricia M. Anderson (Patricia.M.Anderson@Dartmouth.EDU), Dartmouth College and
NBER, USA
[2] 2:50-3:25: "Demographic Change, Pension Reform, and Household Saving in Urban
China "
Francine D. Blau, Cornell University, NBER, IZA and CESifo
Xin Meng (xin.meng@anu.edu.au), Australian National University, Australia
[3] 3:25-4:00: "Does the Gradient Matter? Further Understanding the Intergenerational
Transmission of Human Capital"
George H. Jakubson (gj10@cornell.edu), Cornell University，USA
André Portela Souza, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break
Section 12A (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 201, Jia-Geng Building 2, English) Theoretical Labor
Economics and Public Policy (II)
Section Chair: Kailing Shen (klshen@xmu.edu.cn), Xiamen University, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "The Effect of Wage Differences on the Cyclical Behavior of the Two Genders
in the Labor Market"
Nissim Ben David (nissimB@yvc.ac.il), University of Haifa and Emek Yezreel
Academic College, Israel
[2] 5:00-5:30: "Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence"
Fali Huang (flhuang@smu.edu.sg), Singapore Management University, Singapore
Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania, USA
[3] 5:30-6:00: "Taxation and Unemployment Benefits with Imperfect Goods and Labor
Markets"
Antonio Sciala' (antonio.sciala@unipd.it), University of Padua, Italy
Riccardo Tilli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Section 12B (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 220, Jia-Geng Building 3, English) China's Labor
Market (V): Migration
Section Chair: Hongbin Li (lhongbin@cuhk.edu.hk), Chinese University of Hong Kong,
HKSAR, China
[1] 4:30-5:00: "A Numerical Simulation Analysis of Labor Mobility Restrictions in China"
John Whalley, University of Western Ontario, Canada, NBER, USA and CESifo,
Germany
Shunming Zhang (szhang@xmu.edu.cn), Xiamen University, China
[2] 5:00-5:30: "International Migration and Development: The Case of Fujian Province"
Zai Liang (zliang@albany.edu), University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Hideki Morooka,University at Albany, SUNY, USA
[3] 5:30-6:00: "Leaving the Land, but not Their Hometown? --- Public Trust and Labor
Migration in Rural China"
Ming Lu, Fudan University, China
Shuang Zhang (042015197@fudan.edu.cn), Fudan University, China
Section 12C (4:30pm-6:00pm, Room 215, Jia-Geng Building 3, Chinese) China's Labor
Market and Public Policy: Current Issues (IV)
Section Chair: Zongwu Cai (zcai@uncc.edu), University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
USA and Xiamen University, China
[1] 4:30-4:52: "From Green Economy to Green Labor Market"
Yuqun Yao (yaoyq@sohu.com), Renmin University of China, China
Fuli Guo, Helongjiang University, China
[2] 4:52-5:15: "Studies of the Minimum Wage in China"
Daidai Lin (Lindaidai99@263.net), Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Yuan Lin, Beijing Normal University, China
Lunqu Yuan, Beijing Normal University, China
[3] 5:15-5:38: "Demographic Dividend and Labor Market Policy of China"
Daisheng Tang, Renmin University of China
[4] 5:38-6:00: "An Analysis of the Evolution of China's Pension Policy"
Zhiyong Yang (zyxxmu@yahoo.com.cn), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
6:00pm-8:00pm: Dinner
December 19, 2006
8:00am-1:00pm,
8:00am:
12:00am:
1:00pm,
Sight-seeing to Gu-Lang Island
Bus departure at the front gate of Yi-Fu Building
Lunch
Bus return to Xiamen University