On December 9-11, 2021, the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2021 Conference was successfully held on the Webex online platform. The conference was co-organized by School of Economics, National School of Development, China Center for Economic Research and Global Health Development Research Institute at Peking University, and was funded by the Asian Development Bank. The conference invited a number of top scholars in the field of labor economics to give keynote speeches and gathered more than 300 scholars, teachers and students from all over the world, with 46 parallel sub-forums (Parallel Sessions) and 13 free exchanges Networking Sessions. Participants conducted in-depth and fruitful discussions on issues such as the labor market, employment, inequality, environment, and public policies.

　　On the morning of the 9th December, professor Yao Yang, Dean of National School of Development at Peking University, delivered an opening speech on behalf of the organizer. Afterwards, Professor Christian Dustmann, Chairman of Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics, Professor at University College London, and Founding Director of the Center for Immigration Analysis and Research, delivered a speech. 

Professor Christian Dustmann delivered a speech 

　　After the opening ceremony, Claudia Goldin, Chair Professor of Economics at Harvard University delivered a keynote speech on "Career and Family: Then and Now". She believes that the responsibility of caring for children usually falls on women, which makes it difficult for highly educated women to engage in high-income jobs that require high flexibility in time schedule. As a result, she proposed that only by achieving “couple equity” within the family can gender equality in the labor market be finally achieved.

Professor Claudia Goldin delivered a keynote speech 

　　In the afternoon, Sascha Becker, Chair Professor of Business and Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, gave a presentation entitled "Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany". He and his collaborators studied the role of social networks in Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany. The results show that social networks have significantly facilitated the transnational mobility of highly skilled labor.

Professor Sascha Becker delivered a keynote speech

　　After that, Zhang Junsen, Distinguished Professor of School of Economics at Zhejiang University, gave a keynote speech entitled "An Economic Analysis of Tiger Parenting: Evidence from child developmental delay or learning disability". In his speech, he pointed out that when children have congenital developmental delays and learning disabilities, the benefits of strict tutoring of "tiger parents" will be reduced. Moreover, the improvement of parents' education level reduces the probability of severe tutoring.

Professor Zhang Junsen delivered a keynote speech

　　On the morning of the 10th, Sandra Black, Professor of Economics and International and Public affairs at Columbia University, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Where does wealth come from?" The research found that children of the rich are wealthier than the children of the poor, and the influence of acquired environmental factors is greater than that of innate genetic factors. Professor Sandra Black also proposed to use "lifetime resources" as an alternative measure of social inequality.

Professor Sandra Black delivered a keynote speech

　　Then, Patrick Kline, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered a keynote speech titled "Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers". The research has found that gender and age discrimination is relatively small in the US job market, while racial discrimination is relatively high. The discriminatory behavior of individual companies has severely increased the overall level of discrimination.

Professor Patrick Kline delivered a keynote speech

　　In the afternoon, Professor Christian Dustmann, Chairman of Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics, delivered a presidential lecture entitled "The Impact of Immigration on Regions and Workers". The paper decomposed the impacts of immigrants on employment and wage, and demonstrated that under the premise that the overall impact of regional immigration is not significant, the impacts of immigration on new employment and average wages of the original local workers are both significantly negative. 

Professor Christian Dustmann delivered a presidential lecture

　　On the morning of the 11th, the new Chairman of Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Jungmin Lee, Professor of Seoul University in South Korea made a concluding speech. He thanked all the special guests and participants for their enthusiastic participation and looked forward to the development plan of the association. The conference came to a successful conclusion.

Professor Jungmin Lee delivered a concluding speech