6th IDSC of IZA Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online - New Developments and Opportunities for Social Science and Practice
Program
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+++ keynote: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
+++ presentation: 15 minutes +++ floor discussion: 5 minutes +++
Monday, September 18
14:50 - 15:00
Meet and Greet
15:00 - 15:10
Welcoming Remarks
Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
15:10 - 15:50
Keynote 1
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC, Santa Barbara and IZA)
Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School and IZA)
"Labor Shortages and Firm Search"
Session A: Recruiting and Improving Platforms
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC, Santa Barbara and IZA)
15:50 - 16:10
Qian Weng (Renmin University of China), Haoran He (Beijing Normal University), Marcus Roel (Beijing Normal University)
"How Many Others Apply for the Jobs I Am Applying for? The Effect of Perceived Labor Market Competition on Job Search"
16:10 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:50
Kate Orkin (University of Oxford and IZA), Robert Garlick (Duke University), Lukas Hensel (Peking University), Andrea Kiss (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search"
16:50 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 17:50
Keynote 2
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Matthias Qian (University of Oxford)
"How are Startups Shaping the Future of Work? The Role of AI Translators"
Session B: Doing Labor Economics with Job Board Data
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
17:50 - 18:10
Veronica Escudero (ILO), Hannah Liepmann (ILO and IZA), Damian Vergara (Princeton and IZA)
"Directed Search, Minimum Wages, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from an Online Job Board"
18:10 - 18:30
Charles Carter (University of Bath), Judith Delaney (University of Bath and IZA), Kerry Papps (University of Bradford and IZA)
"Wages and Job Vacancy Durations: Evidence from a Spatial Discontinuity"
18:30 - 18:50
Harm-Jan Rouwendal (University of Groningen), Sierdjan Koster (University of Groningen)
"Does It Take Extra Skills to Work in a Large City?"
Tuesday, September 19
14:40 - 15:00
Meet and Greet (in breakout rooms)
15:00 - 15:40
Keynote 3
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC, Santa Barbara and IZA)
Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University and IZA), Panle Jia Barwick (Cornell University), Yanyan Liu (International Food Policy Research Institute), Qi Wu (Peking University)
"Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects"
Session C: Referrals and Recommender Systems
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC, Santa Barbara and IZA)
15:40 - 16:00
Abdelrahman Amer (University of Toronto), Ashley Craig (ANU and IZA), Clémentine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto and IZA)
"Does Better Information Reduce Gender Discrimination in the Technology Industry?"
16:00 - 16:20
Clément Brébion (Copenhagen Business School), Simon Briole (University of Montpellier)
"Matching Firms and Apprentices Online: The Adverse Effect of an Internet Recommender System"
16:20 - 16:40
Sarah Bana (Chapman University), Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern University)
"Behavioral Responses to Algorithmic Matching: Experimental Evidence from an Online Platform"
16:40 - 17:00
Break
17:00 - 17:40
Keynote 4
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Daniel Kopp (ETH Zurich and IZA)
"Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data"
Session D: Gender and Matching
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
17:40 - 18:00
Nivedhitha Subramanian (Bates College), Elisabetta Gentile (Asian Development Bank), Nikita Kohli (Duke University), Zunia Tirmazee (Lahore School of Economics), Kate Vyborny (World Bank)
"Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan"
18:00 - 18:20
Kexin Feng (Michigan State University)
"The Effects of Pay Transparency on Posted and Realized Wages"
18:20 - 18:40
Jeremias Klaeui (University of Lausanne)
"Consideration Sets in Job Search"
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