TPLS (Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar)

Twenty years ago, quantitative labor economics was a discipline confined mostly to one side of the Pacific (the United States and Canada).  Since then, this research methodology has diffused to the other side of the Pacific.  By now there exists the critical mass on both sides of the Pacific who shares similar research interests and methodology.  At the same time, with the rising prominence of multi-national corporations and the enhanced cross-national interactions of domestic firms in Pacific Rim countries, researchers, policy makers and practitioners on both side of the Pacific are facing increasingly similar labor and employment issues. The purpose of the TPLS is to begin a much-needed process of international academic integration of labor economists in the Pacific Rim.