5th IDSC of IZA Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online - New Developments and Opportunities for Social Science and Practice
Program
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+++ keynote: 40 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
+++ presentation: 15 minutes +++ floor discussion: 5 minutes +++
Friday, September 16
14:40 - 15:00
Meet and Greet
15:00 - 15:10
Welcoming Remarks
Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
15:10 - 16:00
Keynote 1
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Manish Raghavan (Harvard University)
"Mitigating Bias in Algorithmic Hiring: Evaluating Claims and Practices"
16:00 - 16:20
Break
Session A: What's in a Job Ad? Analysis and Effects
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
16:20 - 16:40
Alberto Marcato (Bocconi University), Abi Adams Prassl (University of Oxford), Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University and IZA)
"On the Job Training and Labor Market Competition"
16:40 - 17:00
Qinyue Luo (National University of Singapore), Qinyue Luo (National University of Singapore), Mingyu Chen (Amazon and IZA)
"Job Characteristics, Gender Sorting, and Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Online Job Postings"
17:00 - 17:20
Andrew McGee (University of Alberta and IZA), Vera Brencic (University of Alberta)
"Employers’ Demand for Personality Traits"
17:20 - 17:40
George Ward (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Workplace Happiness and Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
17:40 - 18:10
Break
18:10 - 19:00
Keynote 2
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University)
"Fair Ranking with Biased Data in Two-Sided Markets"
Saturday, September 17
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)
15:50 - 16:10
Break
Session B: RCTs on Job Seekers
Chair: Nikos Askitas (IZA)
16:10 - 16:30
Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute and IZA), Amrita Dhillon (King's College London), Sanchari Roy (King's College London), Nikita Sangwan (Indian Statistical Institute)
"Job Search Technology, Social Networks and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Urban India"
16:30 - 16:50
Jung Ho Choi (Stanford University), Joseph Pacelli (Harvard Business School), Kristina M. Rennekamp (Cornell University), Sorabh Tomar (Southern Methodist University)
"Do Jobseekers Value Diversity Information? A Mixed Methods Investigation"
16:50 - 17:10
Robert Garlick (Duke University), Erica Field (Duke University and IZA), Nivedhitha Subramanian (Bates College), Kate Vyborny (Duke University)
"Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform"
17:10 - 17:30
Norihiko Matsuda (Florida International University), Ryotaro Hayashi (Asian Development Bank)
"Job Preference Signaling and Matching Efficiency: Experimental Evidence from an Online Job Market"
17:30 - 18:00
Break
Session C: Learning from Platforms, Networks and More
Chair: Peter J. Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
18:00 - 18:20
Andres Drenik (University of Texas at Austin), Agostina Brinatti (University of Michigan), Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School), Javier Cravino (University of Michigan)
"The International Price of Remote Work"
18:20 - 18:40
Jiacheng Kang (Australian National University), Kailing Shen (Australian National University and IZA)
"Industries as in a Network: Micro Evidence from Job Search"
18:40 - 19:00
Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania)
"Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?"
19:00 - 19:20
Eliza Stenzhorn (University of Bremen), Fabrizio Ciotti (Catholic University Louvain), Lars Hornuf (University of Bremen)
"Lock-In Effects in Online Labor Markets"
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