Spring 2011 Colloquia

Job Creation and Local Communities Series

IRLE is pleased to announce a special seminar series which will focus on job creation and the local community. The series brings together both UC faculty and affiliates and well-known experts in the field. At this time series details are still being finalized; a list of topics and speakers follows below. Check the IRLE Web for further details, including times for each event. In addition to this topical series, there are also three other colloquia, which are listed below in chronological order.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Job Creation: An Informal Conversation with Bob Giloth

Bob Giloth, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Monday, February 14, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

The Role of State Fiscal Policy in Job Creation

Ken Jacobs, Center for Labor, Research and Education

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 – 12:30-2pM

Jobs Tax Credits and Job Creation

Jesse Rothstein, Goldman School of Public Policy
Discussant: Carrie Portis, San Francisco Works

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 – 5-6:30PM SPECIAL TIME

Economic Development in Hard Times: How to Spend Less and Get More

Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First

Monday, February 28, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

The Cleveland Model: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership

Ted Howard, Evergreen Cooperatives and The Democracy Collaborative

Monday, March 7, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Job Creation in the Green Economy

Carol Zabin and Karen Chapple, Vial Center

Monday, March 14 – 12:30-1:30pm SPECIAL TIME

Union Democracy: Why have it? What is it? Plus a little bit of empirical data

George Strauss, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business

Monday, March 28, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Immigration: Economics, Attitudes and Policies

David Card, Deptment of Economics

Monday, March 28 2011 – 4pm-5pm SPECIAL TIME

Product Architecture, Organizational Design, and HRM Practices: Comparing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Firms

Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

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Friday, April 1, 2011 – 12:00-1pm SPECIAL TIME

How Can California Spur Job Creation?

David Neumark, Public Policy Institute of California, UC Irvine

Monday, April 4, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Spatial Dynamics of Job Creation

Ted Egan, Chief Economist, City of San Francisco

Monday, April 11, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Infrastructure, Job Creation, and Local Hire

Bernida Reagan, Director of Community and Client Relations at Merriwether Williams Insurance Services (formerly Director of Social Responsibility at the Port of Oakland)
Andreas Cluver, Secretary-Treasurer for the Alameda County Building Trades Council

Monday, April 18, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

Community Benefits, Accountable Development, and Job Creation

Cecilia Estolano, Green For All

Monday, April 25, 2011 – 12:30-2pm

The Union Vision for Job Creation

Cesar Diaz, State Building and Construction Trades Council
Bernie Kotlier, IBEW
Tim Rainey, California Labor Federation

Thursday, April 28, 2011 – 4-5:30pm SPECIAL TIME

Outlier Nation? American Exceptionalism and Quality of Life in the United States?

Jerome Karabel, UCB Department of Sociology

Thursday, May 5, 2011 – 12:00-1pm CANCELLED

How Racial Divisions on the Shop-floor Influence Social Capital Activation for Job-Finding

Sandra Smith, Department of Sociology

All events are located at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA.

TO ATTEND AN EVENT, PLEASE R.S.V.P. Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu