Past Events

The webinar will focus on two research papers:

1. “Pandemic school closures may increase inequality in test scores” by Catherine Haeck and Pierre Lefebvre

2. “COVID and the economic importance of in-person K-12 schooling” by David Green, Ali Karimirad, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain and Henry Siu

Joint Productivity Partnership/Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research Workshop: New research on immigration using firm-level data

In Canada, more than 20% of the population is composed of immigrants, and this proportion continues to grow. In the current context of globalization and new migratory trends, the integration of immigrants into the host society and into the labor market raises important issues. This session will showcase new data sets housed at the The Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER) that can be used to study immigration and new research undertaken by the Productivity Partnership on those issues.  

CDER was established in October 2012 to provide researchers whose projects are approved with secure access to business and economic microdata for analytical research. It has been at the forefront of developing new datasets help to deepen our understanding of the impacts of immigration and the mechanisms leading to successful integration.

The Productivity Partnership aims to engage researchers interested in studying Canada’s productivity challenge. The project is funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant and awarded to a team of Canadian researchers. The project’s goal is to increase the flow of existing knowledge (including data), and add to existing research capacity by bringing together thinkers from academia, public and private sectors, and funding their scholarly research.

 

Organizers:

Benoit Dostie (HEC Montréal)

Danny Leung (Statistics Canada)

 

Presenters:

Chair: Benoit Dostie (HEC Montréal and Productivity Partnership)

Huju Liu (Statistics Canada): New Data Development and Research on Immigration in Canada

Benoit Dostie (HEC Montréal): Immigrant Careers and Networks

AGENDA

2019 Ottawa Partners Meeting of the Productivity, Firms and Incomes Network

“Advances in the Study of Productivity”

 

 

08:30 – 09:00     Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 09:00 – 09:15     Welcoming Remarks

Sharon Kozicki (Bank of Canada)

 

09:15 – 10:15     Session 1 – Wages and Productivity

Chair: Annette Ryan (Department of Finance)

 

Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken?

Anna Stansbury (Harvard University) and Lawrence Summers (Harvard University)

 

Geographic Spillovers of Booms: The Effects of Canada’s Resource Boom on Canada-US Differences in Wages

David Green (University of British Columbia), René Morrisette (Statistics Canada), Ben Sand (York University) and Iain Snoddy (University of British Columbia)

 

10:15 – 10:45     Refreshment Break

 

10:45 – 12:15     Session 2 – International Trade

Chair: Ben Tomlin (Bank of Canada)

 

Exchange Rates, Retailers and Importing: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Patrick Alexander (Bank of Canada) and Alexander Chernoff (Bank of Canada)

 

The Impact of International Trade on Productivity

Eugene Beaulieu (University of Calgary)

 

On the Origin of Trade Flows: Importers, Exporters and Products

Michael Devereux (UBC), Wei Dong (Bank of Canada) and Ben Tomlin (Bank of Canada)

 

12:15 – 13:45     Lunch

Chair: Michael Veall (McMaster University)

 

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation

Pian Shu (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Claudia Steinwender (M.I.T.)

 

13:45 – 14:45     Session 3 – Immigration and Productivity

Chair: Pierre St-Amant (Bank of Canada)

 

The Economic Performance of Immigrants in Canada

Charles Bellemare (Université Laval), Natalia Kyui (Bank of Canada) and Guy Lacroix (HEC Montreal)

 

Processing Immigration Shocks: Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin

Rowena Gray (University of California, Merced), Giulia Montresor (University of Essex) and Greg Wright (University of California, Merced)

 

14:45 – 15:00     Refreshment Break

 

15:00 – 15:45     Session 4 – The Future of Productivity Research

Chair: Michael Veall (McMaster University)

 

Firm-Level Productivity Research in Canada

Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards)

 

15:45 – 16:00     Wrap-up

Michael Veall (McMaster University)

 

 

 

Program

April 26, 2019,  Great Hall of the University Club

8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and breakfast               

9:00 - 10:30 - Macro Theory Session

• Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto): "Search, Screening, and Sorting"
• Hyunju Lee (Ryerson University): "Capital Regulations and the Rise of Shadow Banking"                             

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee break

10:45 - 12:15 - Default Session

• Gabriel Mihalache (Stony Brook University): "Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk"
• Juan Carlos Hatchondo (Western University): "Credit risk without commitment"

12:15 - 1:45 - Lunch at the dining room of the University Club

1:45 - 3:15 - Quantitative Macro Session

• Bettina Brueggemann (McMaster University): "Entrepreneurship, Housing, and Wealth"
• Wyatt Brooks (University of Notre Dame): "Bringing Data to the Model: Quantitative Implications of an Equilibrium Diffusion Model"

3:15 - 3:30 - Coffee break

3:30 - 4:15 - Productivity Session

• Yan Bai (University of Rochester): "Misallocation Under Trade Liberalization"

4:30 - Reception and refreshments

You won't want to miss this one!

• The QICSS international conference only happens every two years
• The event will be held over two days and the registration fees include breakfast and lunch
• Keynote speakers: David Card (University of California) and Richard Alba (City University of New York)

In Canada, more than 20% of the population is composed of immigrants, and this proportion continues to grow. In the current context of globalization and new migratory trends, the integration of immigrants into the host society and into the labor market raises important issues. In a recent report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encourages developed countries to resort to immigrant workers to counter the potential economic slowdowns stemming from the aging of the population.

New datasets help to deepen our understanding of the impacts of immigration and the mechanisms leading to successful integration. This new data also makes it possible to examine more specific questions such as the links between immigration and demographic changes or the impact of immigration on firms' productivity.

Read the call for proposals for all details. The SFGSME is an enterprise-level survey designed to document what financing small and medium enterprises are using, and to collect information on recent attempts to obtain new financing. The database also contains information on barriers to growth, the financial position of SMEs, the characteristics of ownership and the extent to which the enterprise is involved in innovation and intellectual property. To help prepare your proposal, we invite you to review the Data dictionary.

Speakers and Panelists

Daniel Ackerberg (University of Texas, Austin)
Robert Bray (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Joanne Castonguay (IRPP)
Wulong Gu (Statistique Canada)
Simone Lenzu (New York University, Stern)
Amil Petrin (University of Minnesota)
David Rivers (Western University)
Margaret Slade (University of British Columbia)
Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus University)

Objective

The 3rd Annual Conference of the Global Forum on Productivity — co-organised with the Bank of Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada — will bring together senior policy-makers, high-level academics and experts to address some of the leading questions on these themes. The Conference will explore (i) the policy and economic implications from new technologies, (ii) structural changes from disruptive technologies, (iii) technology creation, adoption and impacts on institutions, (iv) intangibles, skills and disruptive technologies and (iv) the state of knowledge on the productivity slowdown. In addition, this 3rd Conference will be an opportunity to assess the extent to which the Global Forum on Productivity has helped uncover the factors behind the productivity slowdown.

The Productivity Partnership is sponsoring a special session, 'Technology-driven polarization of the labor market.' 

What are the impacts of new technologies on workers? Do the new technologies such as automation and robots enhance a worker’s productivity or replace it? What are the implications of the increasingly uneven income distribution for productivity and income growth?

Chair: Mike Veall (Professor, McMaster University)

Speaker 1: Antonin Bergeaud (Economist, Banque de France)

Speaker 2: Jaana Remes (Economist, McKinsey Group)

Speaker 3: James Bessen (Professor, Boston University)

Abstract: A key challenge to integrating children with disability into mainstream schools is addressing subtle discriminatory "gatekeeper" behaviour that deters their enrolment, which is associated with the potentially high cost of disability support. A way forward is to ensure that schools receive full risk-adjusted compensation for the enrolment of children with disability through individually targeted payments. In this study, we test whether funding to support special learning needs alone is likely to be sufficient to encourage enrolment, or whether extra adjustments are needed as suggested by as in Glazer and McGuire (2000) and Ellis (2007, 2008). To test this, we examine the impacts that the receipt of disability funding has in the state of Victoria on exemption in the first year of NAPLAN testing (year 3) in 2015, using a comparison group of unfunded children with disability who had similar teacher-assessed abilities at school commencement. We find that the receipt of funding, a highly visible flag for disability, is associated with a 30 percentage-point reduction in the probability of sitting NAPLAN, raising several concerns. Schools appear not to be sufficiently compensated to enrol disabled children to the same degree as non-disabled children, which may explain “gatekeeper behaviour”. We estimate only a (weakly significant) marginal increase at best in Year 3 NAPLAN Reading test score associated with the attainment of individual disability funding. These findings highlight the need for optimal risk adjustment as defined by Glazer and McGuire (2000) and Ellis (2007, 2008) to deal with the “full” cost of integrating children with disability into mainstream schools. 

JEL classifications: I18, I22, I24, I28 

Keywords: Risk Adjustment, Disability, Standardised Schooling Achievement Test Scores.

Activité organisée conjointement par le Centre interuniversitaire québécois de statistiques sociales (CIQSS),
le Réseau canadien des Centres de données de recherche (RCCDR) et le Partenariat Productivité

Programme
9h00  Mot d’ouverture
Benoit Dostie - CIQSS

9h15  Le refonte de l’Enquête sur l'innovation et les stratégies d'entreprise (EISE): pour accroître la pertinence au niveaux des politiques
Pierre Therrien - Industrie Canada

10h00 Pause

10h30  Enquête sur l'innovation et les stratégies d'entreprise : Un aperçu
Louise Earl – CDRE, Statistique Canada

11h30  Le potentiel des micro-données d’entreprise: quelques exemples d’utilisation
Richard Shearmur - School of Urban Planning, McGill University   

12h15  Lunch

13h45  Mise à jour sur l’accès aux micro données d’entreprises
Lydia Couture - CDRE, Statistique Canada

14h30  Beyond the innovation obstacle paradox - The role of government support in helping firms overcome these obstacles and innovate
Catherine Beaudry - Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la création, le développement et la commercialisation de l’innovation, Département de mathématique et de génie industriel, Polytechnique Montréal

15h15  Does opening innovation increase the performance of firms
Charles Bérubé - Industrie Canada

Registration to attend in person at the QICSS
Registration to attend via webinar

Below are the exerpts from the Productivity Partnership-CSLS sessions which will take place on Saturday June 3 and the standalone Productivity Partnership sessions which will take place on Sunday June 4. The full program is on the Canadian Economics Association website.

08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Loc. T.B.A.
CSLS-Productivity Partnership: Explaining Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance I: Setting the Stage
Organizers: Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) | Veall, Michael (McMaster University)
Papers

• Tsang, Wing Kwong (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): The Stylized Factors About Slower Productivity Growth in Canada - Abstract, Paper, Presentation, Appendix
• Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada): Economic And Productivity Growth In Canada And The United States: Recent Trends And Determinants
• Alexopoulos, Michelle (University of Toronto): Canadian Productivity, Secular Stagnation, And Technological - Discussion

10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Loc. T.B.A.
CSLS-Productivity Partnership: Explaining Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance II: The Role of Technology
Organizers Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | Drummond, Don (Queen's University)
Papers

• Tang, Jianmin (Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada): Technological Change, Technical Efficiency and Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance
• St-Amant, Pierre (Bank of Canada): ICT Contribution to Productivity Growth in Canada

Discussants: Cette, Gilbert (Banque de France)

16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Loc. T.B.A.
CSLS-Productivity Partnership Panel: Explaining Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance III: Can the Productivity Slowdown be Reversed and If So, How?
Organizers: Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) | Drummond, Don (Queen's University)
Chair: Veall, Michael (McMaster University)
Panelists

• Beaudry, Catherine (École Polytechique de Montréal)
• Boothe, Paul (Western University)
• Drummond, Don (Queen's University)
• Trefler, Daniel (University of Toronto)

08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 3, 2018 | Loc. T.B.A.
Firm level productivity partnership - Data school: Overview and New Statistics Canada Business Microdata
Organizer: Veall, Michael (McMaster University)
Chair: Veall, Michael (McMaster University
Speaker: Li, Jiang Beryl (Statistics Canada)
Topic: Overview of CDER and Recent Development on Business Microdata (Presentation)

10:30-12:00 Sunday, June 3, 2018 Loc. T.B.A.
Firm Level Productivity Partnership - Data school: CDER Researcher Session / Réseau sur la productivité des enterprises
Organizer: Veall, Michael (McMaster University)
Chair: Veall, Michael (McMaster University)
Papers:

• Yamazaki, Akio (University of Calgary): Carbon Tax, Productivity, and Reallocation: Lessons from Canadian Manufacturing Plants; Presentation
• Vermeulen, Wessel Nicolaas (Newcastle University): Firms' Performance in a Natural Resource Based Economy: Evidence from Canadian plants
• Houle, Stephanie (McMaster University): Do Investment Agreements Necessarily Cause Offshoring? The Canada-Peru Case; Presentation
• Fung, Loretta (National Tsing Hua University): Empirical Investigation in Cross Border Travel between Canada and the United States
• Ozdemir, Gorkem (HEC Montréal): Employment Growth and Financial Frictions at Firm Level: Empirical Evidence From Canada; Presentation

Program

May 22, 2018, Great Hall of the University Club

9:00-9:30 - Welcome and breakfast

9:30-11:00 - Monetary and Fiscal Policy Session

• Stephen Williamson (Western University): "Can the Fiscal Authority Constrain the Central Bank?"
• Derek Stacey (Ryerson University): "Do Financial Constraints Cool a Housing Boom?" with Lu Han, Chandler Lutz and Ben Sand

11:00-11:15 - Coffee break

11:15-12:45 - Business Cycle Session

• Gajendran Raveendranathan (McMaster University): "The Firm Dynamics of Business Cycles" with Joao Ayres
• Hashmat Khan (Carleton University): "The Shifts in the Lead-Lag Properties of the US Business Cycle" with Joshua Brault

12:45-14:15 - Lunch at the dining room of the University Club

14:15-15:45 - Productivity Session Sponsored by The Partnership to Study Productivity, Firms and Incomes

• Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto): "Secular Stagnation, Technological Change and Productivity" with Jon Cohen
• Tasso Adamopoulos (York University): "Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from a Micro Plot-Level Data" with Diego Restuccia

15:45-16:00 - Coffee break

16:00-16:45 - Banking Session

• Amy Hongfei Sun (Queen's University): "A Macroeconomic Theory of Banking Oligopoly" with Mei Dong, Stella Huangfu and Chenggang Zhou

16:45 - Reception and refreshments

Full program

Session 2: Linkages between productivity, trade & innovation
Moderator: Michael Veall (Statistics Canada Research Data Centre, McMaster University) 
Speakers

• Dan Herman (Innovation Policy and Analysis, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
• Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards); Presentation
• Daniel Trefler (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

Productivity Partnership mini-symposium on gender and productivity

11:30 to 12:30 Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children's Education. Valentina Duque, University of Michigan

1:00pm Lunch

1:00 to 2:00 Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner. Anne Brenoe, University of Copenhagen

A synthetic version of the T2-Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program (T2-LEAP) will be made available in the RDC for approved projects. T2-LEAP can be used to study employment and business dynamics, industry turnover, productivity growth, high-growth firms, and firm financing, survival and performance.

During this webinar (15h00 EDT), additional information will be provided on the dataset, the pilot project and on working with the T2-LEAP. 

Attend in-person or online.

This project is made possible through the work of the Productivity Partnership, specially post-doc M. Jahangir Alam, co-applicant Benoit Dostie and collabortor Lars Vilhuber.

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30 Welcome and opening remarks - Isabelle Amano, Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada

8:40 Session #1 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics: Lessons Learned from Matched Employer-Employee Data in the United States, Erika McEntarfer, U.S. Census Bureau (Moderator, Isabelle Amano, Statistics Canada)

9:30 Session #2: Update on the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (Moderator: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada)

• Access to Business Microdata in the Research Data Centres, Lydia Couture, Economic Analysis, Statistics Canada
• Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database, Huju Liu, Economic Analysis, Statistics Canada

10:45 Session #3: Economic Research Using Novel Business Microdata (Moderator: Mike Veall, McMaster University)

• How long before Canadian entrepreneurs hire their first worker?, Lyming Huang, ISED
• Impact of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from administrative Canadian employer-employee data, Benoit Dostie, HEC Montréal
• Retailers, Importing and Exchange Rate Dynamics: Firm-level Evidence from Canada, Alex Chernoff, Bank of Canada

1:00 Session #4: Recent and Upcomgin Microdata Releases 1 (Moderator: Lydia Couture, Statistics Canada)

• CPI Microdata Project, Ifrim Dragos, Consumer Prices, Statistics Canada
• Retail and Service Industry Data Programs: Opportunities for conducting economic analysis, Matt Briggs, Retail and Service Industries, Statistics Canada
• Producer Prices Division (PPD): Available data sources, Klaus Kostenbauer, Producer Prices, Statistics Canada
• An overview of Wholesale and Manufacturing Data, Antoine Rose, Manufacturing and Wholesale Trade, Statistics Canada
• Farm level data for research analysis, Martin Beaulieu, Agriculture, Statistics Canada

2:30 Session #5: Recent and Upcoming Microdata Releases 2 (Moderator: Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada)

• Industrial Organization and Finance Division programs overview, Claire Schaffter, Industrial Organization and Finance Division, Statistics Canada 
• Linkages, explorations and special undertakings: updates from the Centre for Special Business Projects, Alessandro Alasia, Centre for Special Business Projects, Statistics Canada 
• Recent developments in International Accounts and Trade Division Jennifer Withington, International Accounts and Trade, Statistics Canada 
• Investment, Science and Technology Division, Anik Lacroix, Investment, Science and Technology, Statistics Canada 

3:45 Closing Remarks: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada

9:00-9:15 am Welcoming Remarks

• Eric Santor, Managing Director, Canadian Economic Analysis Department, Bank of Canada
• Mike Veall, Principal Investigator for the Network, McMaster University

9:15-10:45 am Research Presentations – Session 1

• Bryan Hong, Western University, External Managerial Hiring and Innovation
• Tony Fang, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Linkages between Workplace Skill Training and Firm Productivity: Analysis Using WES
• Alexander Chernoff, Bank of Canada, The Scale and Scope of Online Retail

10:45-11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 pm Research Presentations – Session 2

• Ben Tomlin, Bank of Canada, On the Origin of Trade Flows: Importers, Exporters and Products
• Nicolas Li, University of Toronto, Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization

12:15-1:15 pm Lunch

1:15- 3:45 pm Going Forward – Partners’ Key Policy-Relevant Questions for Research

• Introduction
  • Mike Veall, McMaster University
  • Don Drummond, Queen’s University
  • Annette Ryan, Finance Canada
• Pierre Therrien, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
• Claude Lavoie, Finance Canada
• Angella MacEwen, Canada Labour Congress
• Ben Tomlin, Bank of Canada
• Jonathan Will, Employment and Social Development Canada
• Tony Stillo, Ontario Ministry of Finance
• Cam Vidler, Business Council of Canada

 

• General Discussion

3:45-4:00 pm Wrap-up Mike Veall, McMaster University

This is a discussion based on her paper, "The Effects of Trade Policy" co-authored with Nina Pavcnik, a contribution to the Handbook of Commercial Policy edited by Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger. Participants will be expected to have read the paper in advance. 

If you wish to attend, please send an email to the Productivity Partnership, also indicate whether you expect to be able to attend the following lunch.

Dr. Vermeulen discusses how exports respond to changes in domestic trade costs.

Please join the Partnership for a mini-symposium on schooling. 

Noon-12:40: Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Price, John Haisken-DeNew, University of Melbourne

12:45- 13:15 Teacher assessment biases and human capital development: The role of visible student physical attributes, Sonja Kassenboehmer, Monash University

13:15-13:30: Questions

Productivity Partnership Data School I: Applications of Firm-Level Data in Canada

Sunday June 4, 2017, 8:30-10:00, Location Schwartz 156

Organizer / Organisateur: Michael Veall (McMaster University)

Chair / Chaise: Alex Chernoff (Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada)

Panelists / Les panélistes

• International Investment Agreements and Firm Structure, Stephanie Houle (McMaster University)
• Top Productivity Dynamics in Canada, Alexander Amundsen with Markus Poschke, McGill University
• Accounting for Foreign-born Employees in a Firm's Decision to Export, Miguel Cardoso (Western University)
• Reflections on the CDER Process, Gorkem Ozdemir (HEC Montréal)
• Thoughts on the CDER Process, Yasin Salimibeni (HEC Montréal)
• Policy incentives and geography of exports as determinants of innovation in Canadian firms, Claudia De Fuentes (Saint Mary's University)

Productivity Partnership Data School II: Improved Access to Economic Microdata in Canada

Sunday June 4, 2017, 10:30-12:00, Location Schwartz 156

Organizer / Organisateur: Franco Cheng (Ontario Ministry of Finance / Minstère des finances) & Michael Veall (McMaster University)

Chair / Chaise: Byron Grant Spencer (McMaster University)

Panelists / Les panélistes

• Ontario Statistics Transformation, Brian Lewis (Ontario Ministry of Finance / Minstère des finances)
• Improved access to microdata at Statistics Canada, Danny Leung (Statistics Canada / Statisique Canada)
• Getting Policy Traction with Microdata, Thomas Storring (Nova Scotia Department of Finance and Treasury Board / Département des finances et conseil de trésor de la Nouvelle-Écosse)
• Data Access in Quebec, Guy Lacroix (Université Laval)
• Accessing Administrative Data in New Brunswick, Ted McDonald (University of New Brunswick)

Organizer / Organisateur: Michael Veall (McMaster University)

Chair / Chaise: Mark Brown (Statistics Canada / Statisique Canada)

Papers / Papiers:

• A Half-Century of Stagnation: Labour Productivity in Ontario's Gold Mining Industry, Karl Skogstad (Lakehead University)
  • Comment, Wulong Gu (Statistics Canada / Statisique Canada)
• What Rates of Productivity Growth Would Be Required to Offset the Effects of Population Aging? A Study of Twenty Industrialised Countries, Byron Grant Spencer (McMaster University)
  • Comment, Robert Petrunia (Lakehead University)
• Effect Of Policy Incentives And The Geography Of Exports To Foster Innovation In Canadian Firms, Claudia De Fuentes (Saint Mary's University)
  • Comment, Ram Acharya (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada / Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada)

8:30-9:00 Welcome and breakfast

9:00-10:30 Productivity Session Sponsored by The Partnership to Study Productivity, Firms and Incomes

• Diego Restuccia (UofT): “Land Markets, Resource Allocation, and Agricultural Productivity” with Chaoran Chen and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis.
• Rui Castro (Western): “Stimulative Effects of Temporary Corporate Tax Cuts” with William Gbohoui.

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:15 International Session

• Alok Johri (McMaster): “The Rise and Fall of India’s Investment Price: A Tale of Policy Error and Reform” with Md. Mahbub Rahman
• Fernando Leibovici (York): “Trade in Commodities and Emerging Market Business Cycles” with David Kohn and Hakon Tretvoll.

12:15-13:45 Lunch at the dining room of the University Club

13:45-14:30 Labour Session

• Francisco Gonzalez (Waterloo): “Skill Mismatch in Competitive Search Equilibrium” with Sonja Chen and Matt Doyle.
• Zach Mahone (UofT): “An Efficient Mechanism for Minimum Wage Determination” with Pau Pujolas.

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:15 Demographics and Life-Cycle Session

• Simona Cociuba (Western): “Demographics and Sectoral Reallocation” with James MacGee.
• Serdar Ozkan (UofT): “Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle” with Fatih Karahan and Jae Song.

17:00 Reception and refreshments

9:00 AM: Decio Coviello, HEC Montréal
Minimum wages within the firm: evidence from establishment and personnel data

10:00 AM: Chris Riddell, University of Waterloo
Compensation inequality within the firm: A field study of a multinational

11:00 AM: Break

11:15 AM: Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
Long Time Out: Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States (with Fabian Lange, Matthew J. Notowidigdo & Matthew Tudball)

12:15 PM: Lunch

1:45 PM: Florian Hoffmann, University of British Columbia
An Empirical Model of Directed Search with Skill Dynamics and Labor Market Transitions (with Shouyong Shi)

2:45 PM: Theodore Papageorgiou, McGill University
Estimating Matching Functions when Search Intensity is Unobserved  (with Fabian Lange)

3:45 PM: Break

4:00 PM: David Card, University of California at Berkeley
What Do Editors Maximize: Evidence from Leading Economics Journals

 

Morning: Individual-level data

• RDC Access Protocols (Natalie Goodwin, Statistics Canada RDC Analyst, Western University RDC)
• Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)
• Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) (Speaker: Elena Prokopenko, Statistics Canada)
• Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD) (Speaker: Nell Hamalainen, Statistics Canada)
• Future Pilots (Speaker: Donna Dosman, Statistics Canada)

Afternoon: Firm-level data & Data access and student opportunities

• The Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database (Speaker: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada)
• The Annual Survey of Manufacturing (including the Import Registry Database) (Speaker: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada)
• The CBSA Customs Database, Capital and Investment Program (Speaker: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada)
• Data Access and Student Opportunities (Speakers: Mike Veall, McMaster University and Miguel Cardoso, Western University)