RIEB Seminar
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum)
RIEB Seminar
Jointly supported by:Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum
| Date & Time | Friday, July 26, 2019, 3:00pm-6:10pm |
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| Place | Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculties, Graduate Students Undergraduates and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | English |
3:00pm-4:30pm
- Topics
- Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization (joint with Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki, and Chad Syverson)
- Speaker
- Serguey BRAGUINSKY (Department of Economics, University of Maryland)
4:40pm-6:10pm
- Topics
- Labor Market Evolution in an Emerging Industry: Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry before 1900
- Speaker
- Tomohiro HARA (Department of Economics, University of Maryland)
- Abstruct
- This paper studies the evolution of the labor market at the emergence of a modern industry. Using unique firm-level monthly data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry before 1900, when the industry experienced rapid growth with new entries and capacity expansions, I estimate the effect of competition on wages. I classify two distinct sources of competition: extensive margin which captures changes in the number of competitors in a local labor market, and intensive margins which captures changes in labor demand due to capacity expansions. I find both margins significantly increase wages, and the effects are larger for female wages.