Seminars & Events
APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)
1)
The
Valuation
of
Changes
in
Commuting
Distances:
An
Analysis
using
Georeferenced
Data;
2)
Reexamining
Persistency
of
Population
Shocks:
Evidence
from
the
Occupation
of
West
Germany
after
WWII
APL
(Ajiken
Power
Lunch)
is
a
lunchtime
workshop
open
to
public,
including
IDE
staffs,
visiting
research
fellows,
IDEAS
students,
outside
researchers
and
graduate
students.
This
workshop
provides
a
platform
for
presentation
of
any
work
in
progress
where
we
can
discuss
in
either
English
or
Japanese.
Those
who
would
attend
a
seminar
are
asked
to
announce
yourself
to
receptionists
on
your
arrival
at
the
IDE
and
to
obtain
APL
Organizers'
signature
on
your
admission
card
after
the
seminar.
Date&time:
March 17, 2017. (Friday) 10：30-12：00
Venue:
Theme:
1) The Valuation of Changes in Commuting Distances: An Analysis using Georeferenced Data; 2) Reexamining Persistency of Population Shocks: Evidence from the Occupation of West Germany after WWII
Abstract
As
Peter
stays
at
IDE
for
3
weeks,
this
talk
plays
as
the
role
of
his
introduction.
The
talk
will
be
divided
into
two
parts.
Abstract
1)
We
analyze
the
causal
effect
of
commuting
on
wages,
using
a
large
sample
of
German
job
changers.
Information
on
their
home
and
workplace
addresses
in
combination
with
road
navigation
software
allows
us
to
calculate
exact
door-to-door
commuting
distances
with
an
unprecedented
degree
of
precision.
We
use
a
theoretical
model
on
spatial
job
search
to
motivate
our
empirical
strategy.
By
focusing
on
job
moves,
we
can
use
panel
data
techniques
and
control
for
unobserved
individual
heterogeneity.
We
find
an
asymmetric
valuation
of
distance
changes.
Job
changers
value
a
reduction
of
their
commuting
distance
higher
than
an
increase.
Apparently,
individuals
are
not
able
to
capitalize
the
full
costs
of
commuting
in
their
wages.
A
large
part
of
this
effect
can
be
explained
by
sorting
into
certain
firms
at
different
distances
and
the
rest
by
individual
wage
bargaining.
Abstract
2)
We
examine
the
persistency
in
population
shock
in
West
Germany
after
WWII
at
the
occupation
zonal
border
between
US
and
France.
While
Schumann
(2014:
AER)
found
the
persistent
effects
on
population
growth
between
1939
and
1951
to
1970,
we
found
no
such
effects
for
the
population
growth
after
1951.
We
also
find
no
such
effects
at
the
border
in
labour
market
outcomes
such
as
wages,
employments
and
skill
compositions
in
late
1970s
and
characteristics
of
establishments.
These
results
suggest
that
the
shock
was
one
time
and
the
persistency
was
limited
at
most
about
twenty
years.
Speaker：
Mr. Peter Haller (Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA))
Chair:
Kenmei TSUBOTA
Languages:
English
IMAI Kohei E-mail：kohei_imai
TSUBURA Machiko E-mail：Machiko_Tsubura
ASUYAMA Yoko E-mail：yoko_asuyama