Programme
Thursday February 9
8:50 Opening address
9:00-10:00 Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College: “Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from Mexican Bracero Exclusion”
10:00 -11:00 Gianmarco Ottaviano, London School of Economics: “Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K Firms”
11:00- 11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Luca Opromolla, Bank of Portugal: “Trade and Migration: A Quantitative Assessment”
12:30- 13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University: “Sharing the Pain? The Distributional Consequences of the Collapse of Finnish-USSR Trade”
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Maria Brunborg Hoen, Frisch Centre: “Does Labour Migration Hurt Local Workers?”
16:00-17:00 Simon Galle, BI Norwegian Business School: “Slicing The Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade”
Friday February 10
9:00-10:00 Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo: “Opening the Floodgates: Immigration and Structural Change”
10:15 -11:15 Jon Erik Dølvik, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research: “Transnational Labour Mobility – Engine for Social Convergence or Divergence in Europe?”
11:30-12:30 Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum, Frisch Centre: “Immigrant responses to Social Insurance Generosity”
12:30 Closing remarks
12:45 Lunch