“Workers and Firms in Global Production Networks:
Policy Implications”
Conference schedule
Updated on 20 May 2021
Online, time schedule according to CEST
Day 1: 27 May 2021 (Thursday)
9:00 Opening
9:15-10:00: Daniel Baumgarten, University of Munich - LMU "Internationalization strategies of multi-product firms”
Session A. 10:00-12:30 Multinationals, Firms and GVC, Chair: Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
10:00 Sabina Szymczak, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland “Global Value Chains and inward FDI: An empirical investigation of European Firms”
10:30 Artur Klimek, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland “Backshoring or less offshoring: multinational enterprises in global value chains”
11:00 Oscar Lemmers, Statistics Netherlands “Employment in the supply chain – where, how many steps away – taking the ownership dimension into account”
11:30 Jan Drahokoupil, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium “The limits of foreign-led growth: Demand for skills by foreign and domestic firms”
12:00 Pavel Chakraborty, Lancaster University, UK “Import Competition, Labour Market Regulation, and Firm Outsourcing”
Break 12:30-13:00
Session B. 13:00 – 15:30 Labour markets and GVC, Chair: Aleksandra Parteka
13:00 Aleksandra Parteka, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland “Wage Response To Global Production Links – Evidence For Workers From 28 European Countries (2005–2014)”
13:30 Antonio Martuscelli, LUMSA, Italy “Globalization, financial development and earning inequality: evidence from Italian local labor markets”
14:00 Robin Konietzny, University of Groningen, Netherlands “Trade and Job (In)Security: The Two Sides of Import Exposure”
14:30 Alexander Guschanski, University of Greenwich, UK “The Effect of Global Value Chain Participation on the Labour Share – Industry Level Evidence from Emerging Economies”
15:00 Aleksandra Kordalska, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland “GVC activities in the lens of functional specialization”
15:30 – 16:30: Pol Antràs, Harvard University “Globalization and Pandemics”
Day 2 - 28 May 2021 (Friday)
9:00-10:00: Bart Los, University of Groningen “Global Value Chain Analysis using IO-tables: Recent Progress and the Road Ahead”
Session C: 10:00 – 12:30 Technology and GVC, Chair: Dagmara Nikulin
10:00 Filippo Bontadini, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy “Patterns in GVC integration, technology and employment structures in Europe: country and sectoral evidence”
10:30 Ketan Reddy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India “Firm Automation and Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analysis”
11:00 Elizabeth Casabianca, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy “Who is afraid of robots?”
11:30 Rosario Crino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, CEPR and CESifo, Italy “Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes”
12:00 Dagmara Nikulin, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland "Working conditions, GVC and Technology. Evidence for European employees”
Break 12:30-13:00
13:00 – 14:00 Holger Görg, Kiel Institute for the World Economy “Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China’s Innovation Edge?”
Session D. 14:00 – 16:30 Institutions and GVC, Chair: Piotr Paradowski
14:00 Leandro Navarro, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany “Uncertainty in Global Sourcing: learning, sequential offshoring, and selection patterns”
14:30 Alessandro Barattieri, ESG UQAM, Canada “Self-harming trade policy? Protectionism and Production Networks”
15:00 Giovanni Pica, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland “Insurance Between Firms: The Role of Internal Labor Markets”
15:30 Filippo Boeri, London School of Economics, UK “Natural disasters and business groups: Propagation through ownership networks and reshoring dynamics”
16:00 Enrico Marvasi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy “The Resilience of Global Value Chains during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Italy”
16:30 Closing
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Technical details:
The conference will be held virtual at Zoom platform.
There is one link to all sessions:
Meeting ID: 814 4173 4988 Passcode: LGcfy8
Presentation: the limit for each presentation is 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for the discussion)
Organizing Committee:
Dagmara Nikulin - head of organization committee, Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Piotr Paradowski, Aleksandra Parteka, Sabina Szymczak
Contact: gvc@zie.pg.gda.pl
The conference is a part of the project “Effects of global production networks on employment, earnings and factor allocation in the presence of workers, firms and tasks heterogeneity”, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2015/19/B/HS4/02884).
For download: Conference schedule
