4th IDSC of IZA Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online - New Developments and Opportunities for Social Science and Practice

Friday, October 08:

14:40	-	15:00		Meet and Greet
15:00	-	15:10		Welcoming Remarks Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA) Nikos Askitas (IZA)
15:10	-	16:00		Keynote 1
				Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
				Laura Katherine Gee (Tufts University and IZA), Amanda Agan (Rutgers University), Bo Cowgill (Columbia Business School)
				"Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit"
16:00	-	16:20		Break
				Session A: Search and Recruiting
				Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
16:20	-	16:40		Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota and IZA), Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania), Evan Starr (University of Maryland)
				"Externalities from Silence: Non-disclosure Agreements Distort Firm Reputation"
16:40	-	17:00		Benjamin Scuderi (UC Berkeley), Nina Roussille (LSE)
				"Bidding for Talent: Equilibrium Wage Dispersion in a High-Stakes Online Labor Market"
17:00	-	17:20		Bruno Crépon (CREST and IZA), Victor Alfonso Naya (LISN), Guillaume Bied (CREST), Philippe Caillou (LISN), Christophe Gaillac (CREST), Elia Pérennes (CREST), Michèle Sebag (LISN)
				"Designing Labor Market Recommender Systems: The Importance of Job Seeker Preferences and Competition"
17:20	-	17:40		Lena Hensvik (Uppsala University), Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University and IZA), Roland Rathelot (University of Warwick)
				"Do Algorithmic Job Recommendations Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from a Large-scale Randomised Field Experiment in Sweden"
17:40	-	18:10		Break
18:10	-	19:00		Keynote 2
				Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
				Lisa B. Kahn (University of Rochester and IZA)
				"Searching, Recalls and Tightness in the COVID Labor Market"

Saturday, October 09:

14:40	-	15:00		Meet and Greet (in breakout rooms)
15:00	-	15:50		Keynote 3
				Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
				Danielle Li (MIT Sloan School of Management)
				"Hiring as Exploration"
15:50	-	16:10		Break
				Session B: Evidence from Vacancy Postings
				Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
16:10	-	16:30		Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (UC Santa Cruz), Ke Amy Ma (UC Santa Cruz)
				"Labor Market Tightness, Recruitment and Search Behavior"
16:30	-	16:50		Fabrizio Colella (University of Lausanne)
				"The Effect of Trade on Skill Requirements: Evidence from Job Postings"
16:50	-	17:10		Sarah Bana (UC Santa Barbara)
				"job2vec: Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia"
17:10	-	17:30		Giuseppe Grasso (University of Luxembourg, LISER), Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA)
				"The Impact of Restricting Fixed-term Contracts on Labor and Skill Demand: Evidence from Italian Online Job Vacancy Data"
17:30	-	18:00		Break
				Session C: Search Behavior
				Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
18:00	-	18:20		David Ong (Jinan University), Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University), Yu Alan Yang (Peking University Guanghau School of Business), Junsen Zhang (Zhejiang University and IZA)
				"Marrying up: trading off spousal income and height"
18:20	-	18:40		Ingrid Hägele (UC Berkeley)
				"The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap"
18:40	-	19:00		Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania), Paolo Martellini (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
				"Does Alma Mater Matter? A Global Look at University Quality"
19:00	-	19:20		Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University and IZA), Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University and IZA), Attila Lindner (University College London and IZA), Fabien Postel-Vinay (University College London and IZA)
				"Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining?"