An event organized in partnership with IUF, AMSE, IRASIA and IMéRA Institute.
PROGRAM :
9.00-10.15: Session 1: Environment and Migration
Guest lecture : Thomas MACIAS (Vermont and IMéRA/Fullbright fellow): Immigrants and the Environment
10.15-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.30: Session 2: Productivity and Domestic Migration
Xiaodong Zhu (Toronto): Migration and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from China
Harry Wu (Hitotsubashi): Impact of Forty Years of Transformation of China’s Labor Force on Productivity Performance
12.30-14.00 : Lunch
14.00 -16.00: Session 3: Industrialization and History
Eric Girardin (AMU-AMSE): Could late Imperial China have Industrialized? First Quantitative Evidence
Christian Henriot (AMU-IrAsia): Shanghai before Communism: An Industrial City? A Quantitative View
16.15-16.30: Tea break
16.30-18.00: Session 4: International Migration
Pauline Cherrier (AMU-IrAsia): Contemporary Trends in Japanese Immigration Policy
Frederic Roustan (AMU-IrAsia): From Migrants to Transnational Entrepreneurs: Japanese Presence in Colonial and Post-Colonial Viet-Nam
Organization : Eric Girardin (AMU-AMSE); Christian Henriot (AMU-IrAsia)