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

Friday, September 21:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration
09:00	-	09:10		Welcome Remarks Nikos Askitas (IZA) Peter J. Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara and IZA)
09:10	-	10:10		Keynote I
				Michèle Belot (European University Institute and IZA), Philipp Kircher (European University Institute), Paul Muller (University of Gothenburg)
				"Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on On-line Advice"
10:10	-	10:40		Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University and IZA), Lena Hensvik (IFAU), Roland Rathelot (University of Warwick)
				"Broadening Job Search Using Online Recommender Systems"
10:40	-	11:10		Coffee Break
11:10	-	11:40		Sekyu Choi (University of Bristol), Stefano Banfi (Ministry of Energy, Chile), Benjamin Villena-Roldan (University of Chile)
				"Deconstructing Job Search Behavior"
11:40	-	12:10		Martha Gimbel (Indeed Hiring Lab), Tara Sinclair (George Washington University)
				"Online Labor Market Mismatch"
12:10	-	13:10		Lunch
13:10	-	14:10		Keynote II
				Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago), Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (University of California, Santa Cruz)
				"Application Flows"
14:10	-	14:40		Claudia Macaluso (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Brad J. Hershbein (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)
				"Labor Market Concentration and the Demand for Skills"
14:40	-	15:10		Robert Mahlstedt (University of Copenhagen and IZA), Steffen Altmann (University of Copenhagen), Sofie Cairo (University of Copenhagen), Alexander Sebald (University of Copenhagen)
				"Complexity and the Effectiveness of Public Policy"
15:10	-	15:40		Coffee Break
15:40	-	16:10		Pedro S. Martins (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA)
				"Clicking towards Mozambique's New Jobs"
16:10	-	16:40		Abhinav Maurya (Carnegie Mellon University), Rahul Telang (Carnegie Mellon University)
				"Bayesian Multi-view Models for Member-job Matching and Personalized Skill Recommendations"
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, September 22:

09:00	-	10:00		Keynote III
				John Horton (New York University), Ramesh Johari (Stanford University)
				"Engineering a Separating Equilibrium"
10:00	-	10:30		Paul Oyer (Stanford University and IZA), Yichen Su (Stanford University)
				"The Value of Commuting Time and Efficient Job Assignment in the Gig Economy"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	11:30		Bobby Pakzad-Hurson (Brown University), Zoe Cullen (Harvard University), John Eric Humphries (Yale University)
				"Gender and Sorting in the On-demand Economy"
11:30	-	12:00		Stefan Pasch (Goethe University Frankfurt)
				"Corporate Culture and Industry-fit: A Text Mining Approach"
12:00	-	12:30		Emilie Rademakers (KU Leuven), Maarten Goos (Utrecht University), Anna Salomons (Utrecht University), Bert Willekens (KU Leuven)
				"The Impact of Automation on the Unemployed"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	14:00		Keynote IV
				Kristin Lena Keveloh (LinkedIn)
				"Insights for Social Good: LinkedIn's Economic Graph"
14:00	-	14:30		Bledi Taska (Burning Glass Technologies), José Azar (Universidad de Navarra), Ioana E. Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania and IZA), Marshall Steinbaum (Roosevelt Institute)
				"Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data"
14:30	-	15:00		Benjamin Villena-Roldan (University of Chile), Stefano Banfi (Ministry of Energy, Chile), Sekyu Choi (University of Bristol)
				"Sorting On-line and On-time"
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:00		Qian Weng (Renmin University of China), Haoran He (Beijing Normal University), David Neumark (University of California, Irvine and IZA)
				"Workers’ Valuation of Workplace Flexibility: A Field Experiment"
16:00				Closing Remarks