8th KOF ETH Zurich and IDSC of IZA Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online
Local Organizer: Corinne Schibli-Lozano (KOF ETH Zurich)
Program
+++ Presentation: 25 min +++ Q&A: 5 min +++
+++ Keynote: 50 min +++ Q&A: 10 min +++
Thursday, September 04
08:30 - 08:45
Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Welcome Remarks
Michael Siegenthaler and Peter Kuhn
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote 1
David Neumark (University of California, Irvine and IZA)
"Minimum Wages and Search"
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:00
Session 1: Hiring and Occupational Mobility
Oskar Helgi Thorleifsson (Aarhus University), Jonas Maibom (Aarhus University)
"The Role of Occupational Mismatch in Unemployment and Post-Unemployment Outcomes"
Lennart Ziegler (University of Vienna and IZA)
"Labor Market Tightness and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from Job Application Data"
Sara Signorelli (CREST and IZA), Arnaud Dupuy (University of Luxembourg), Morgan Raux (University Aix-Marseille (AMSE))
"Digitalization, Change in Skill Distance between Occupations and Worker Mobility: A Gravity Model Approach"
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch and Poster Session
13:30 - 15:00
Session 2: Job Search and Monopsony
Jeremias Klaeui (CREST-ENSAE), Ihsaan Bassier (University of Surrey), Alan Manning (LSE)
"Job search and employer market power"
Yu Miao (Peking University), Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania), Jiayin Hu (Peking University)
"Extended Maternity Leaves and Enlarged Gender Gaps: Job Application and Callback Evidence"
Jack Fisher (University of Virginia)
"Monopsony Power in the Gig Economy"
14:45 - 15:15
Discussion
15:00 - 15:15
Short Break
15:15 - 16:15
Keynote 2
Nikolaj Harmon (University of Copenhagen)
"Wage Misperceptions and the Sorting of Young Workers to Jobs"
16:15 - 16:45
Break
16:45 - 18:15
Session 3: Hiring Discrimination
Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University), Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University), Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore)
"Wearing Your Religion: Evidence on Employers’ Preferences in Indonesia"
Shuo Zhang (Northeastern University), Lizi Yu (University of Queensland), Simin Yuan (Tsinghua University), Taoxiong Liu (Tsinghua University), Kebin Dai (Tongdao Liepin Group)
"Prime Years, Hidden Bias: Middle Ageism in the Labor Market"
Franka Vetter (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Nicole Gürtzgen (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Laura Pohlan (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA)
"Disability Quota Policies and Employers’ Use of Inclusive Language – Evidence from Job Ads "
18:15 - 19:00
Apero
19:15 - 21:30
Dinner
Friday, September 05
08:30 - 09:30
Keynote 3
Tatiana Mocanu (Columbia University and IZA)
"Gender Equity in Hiring - Brazil Public Service"
09:30 - 09:45
Short Break
09:45 - 11:15
Session 4: Matching
Benjamin Manning (MIT), Gili Rusak (Harvard University), John Horton (MIT & NBER)
"AI Agents Can Enable Superior Market Designs"
John Körtner (University of Lausanne), Patrick Arni (University of Bristol and IZA)
"Algorithms, Beliefs, and Behavior Adjustment: A Field Experiment with Caseworkers"
Jason Sockin (Cornell University), Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich), Soumitra Shukla (Yale University)
"Interviews"
11:15 - 11:30
Short Break
11:30 - 12:30
Keynote 4
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
"Algorithm Audits"
Public Event: The Chances and Risks of Algorithmic Matchmaking in the Labor Market, Co-Organized with NCCR "On the Move"
12:30
- 13:45
Standing Lunch
13:45 - 13:55
Opening Remarks
Michael Siegenthaler (KOF ETH Zurich and IZA)
"The Growing Importance of Job Recommender Systems in the Swiss Labor Market"
13:55
- 14:20
Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
"Designing and Evaluating Job Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Review"
14:20 - 14:45
Aniko Hannak (University of Zurich)
"New Faces of Bias in Online Labor Markets"
14:45
- 15:15
Plenary Discussion
End of Conference
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