The Hitotsubashi-Nagoya University Joint Workshop

Date: January 24-25, 2014. Venue：Conference Room, Economic Research Institute, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Theme: Income Inequality in Asian Countries -----Case studies based on the survey data Language: English

Program

January 24th (Friday) 9:00-09:10 Welcome speech Yukinobu Kitamura（Professor, Economic Research Institute, Hitotsubashi University） Jinjun Xue (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University)

9:10-12:00 Presentations: 1. V. Vamsi (Associate Professor, University of Hyderabad) “Development and Inequality: What can the Asian experience teach us?” 2. Yukinobu Kitamura (Professor, Economic Research Institute, Hitotsubashi University), Chia, Ngee Choon, Albert Tsi Ka Cheng (Professor, Singapore National University) “Redistributive effects on income tax rates and base: evidence from Japanese Tax Reform 1984-2009 ” 3. Kittipong Rueanthip (Assistant researcher, Thailand Development Research Institute) “Labor Migration and Income Disparity in Thai –A study based on household survey”

12:00-13:00 Lunch Time

13:00-17:00 4. Yi Zhang (Professor and deputy director general, Institute of Sociology, CASS) “Why Wage Rises in Current China: An Analysis on the Rural Migrants Survey 2012” 5. Jinjun Xue (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University) and Wensh Gao (Professor, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS) “ Informal Employment and Income Inequality in China –A study based on China Urban Labor Survey” 6. Eiji Mangyo (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University) “Relative Poverty and Income Inequality in China –A study based on CHIP data” 7. Tadashi Sonoda (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University) and Chuliang Luo (Beijing Normal University) “Agricultural Productivity in China –A study based on CHIP data”

18:00-20:00 Discussion on the next day presentation and joint use of the survey

25th (Saturday)

9:00-12:00 Presentations 8. Xia Gao (Associate Professor, Henan University of economics and Law, China) “An Introduction ot the CHIP Data 2010” 9. Shanping Yan (Professor, Doshisha University) “Labor Migration and Income Disparity in China –A study based on CHIP data” 10. Erbiao Dai (Research Professor, ICSEAD) “Regional Gap in China –A study based on CHIP data” 11. Quheng Deng (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, CASS) “Earnings Gap among Firms across Industries and Ownership in Urban China – A study based on CHIP data”

12:00-14:30 Discussion on the next schedule of workshop and paper publication Conclusion Remarks (Yukinobu Kitamura and Jinjun Xue