Existing literature has no consensus on the impact of technical change and international trade on the labor market. The recent advances in information technology and artificial intelligence and debates on trade and globalization have changed the way in which economists and policy-makers usually think about the implications that technical change and international trade may have on employment, productivity, wages and income, welfare, and other labor market outcomes in both advanced economies and emerging economies.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) will publish a special issue on “Technical Change, U.S.-China Trade and Labor Market Outcomes”, which aims to gather frontier research related to the impact of technical change and international trade, with particular focus on U.S.-China trade, on the labor market outcomes in the U.S. and China. We encourage both theoretical and empirical contributions on the subject.

The Department of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the National School of Development at Peking University, together with JEBO, are pleased to announce that we are organizing a two-day workshop on the same topic on May 25-26, 2019 at Peking University. For those who are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please submit your paper to JEBOworkshop2019@gmail.com.

The organizing committee of the conference includes:

       Suqin Ge, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech

       Sudipta Sarangi, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech

       Jintao Xu, National School of Development, Peking University

       Miaojie Yu, National School of Development, Peking University

The submission deadline is March 1, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by March 31, 2019. The selected papers will receive invitations for submission to the special issue. But all papers submitted to the special issue will be considered for publication.

To be considered for publication in the special issue, please submit your manuscript online via JEBO’s online submission and editorial system, and select article type “Technical Change, U.S.-China Trade and Labor Market Outcomes”. Manuscripts must be received by 31^st August, 2019. Please conform to the standard guidelines for submission to JEBO. JEBO’s standard submission fee is waived for this special issue. To speed up the revision process, we will apply a one-revision policy. All publication decisions will be made after no more than one revision. Submissions are first screened by the editors, and those within the scope of the special issue are then sent to expert referees for evaluation.

We expect the special issue to appear in print in the fourth quarter of 2020.