1.105 Technology, Information, and Labor Market Frictions (Symposium)
Presenters: Alina Malkova, Florida Institute of Technology—Artificial Intelligence and the Gender Wage Gap: Two Competing Mechanisms
Afrouz Azadikhah Jahromi, Widener University—Job Displacement, Re-employment, and Earnings Recovery among Immigrant and Native Workers
Elif Dilden, Rockhurst University and Willy Chen, Michigan State University—Understanding Immigrant Occupational Mismatch: The Role of Intra-Household Bargaining and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Mary Kaltenberg, Pace University; Flavio Pinheiro and Gustavo Pilatti, NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa—Disrupting the Water Cooler: The Impact of Location on Scientific Production
Afrouz Azadikhah Jahromi, Widener University | |
1.110 Workplace Democracy and Employee Ownership: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Meta-Analytical Perspectives (Symposium)
Presenters: Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Adriane Clomax and Lauren Gilbert, Rutgers University and Takao Kato, Colgate University—How Does Employee Ownership Affect Workers with Disabilities?
Adriane Clomax and Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University—Working In a Better Way: Insights from ESOP CEOs
Matt Mazewski, Rutgers University and Todd Sorensen, University of California, Riverside—Taking the Ploy Out of Employee Ownership Studies: The Impact of the "Credibility Revolution" on Empirical Research in the Field
Laura Beltran Figueroa, Pennsylvania Policy Center—State Pathways to Broad-Based Employee Ownership: A Typology of Enacted U.S. Legislation
Kate Bahn, Institute for Women's Policy Research | |
1.111 Labor Market and Public Policy Consequences of Occupational Licensing (Symposium)
Presenters: Darwyyn Deyo, San Jose State University and Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota—Unlocked Potential: Labor Market Evidence from Collateral Consequences for Occupational Licensing
Kihwan Bae and Liam Sigaud, West Virginia University—Nurse Practitioner Autonomy and Hospital Staffing: The Role of Physician Scarcity
Hugh Cassidy, Kanasas State University and Benjamin Schwab, Kanas State University—Occupational Licensing as a Margin of Native Worker Adjustment to Immigration
Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—The Long-Term Economic Impacts of Apprenticeship Completion vs. Trade Qualification
Edward J. Timmons, Archbridge Institute | |
1.112 Augmenting, Not Eliminating, Work: Artificial Intelligence, Labor Markets, and Corporate Governance in the Age of Automation (Symposium)
Presenters: Areerat Kichkha, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service—Impacts of Augmentation AI on the Labor Market and the Role of Lifelong Learning
Brian Sloboda, Department of Labor and University of Maryland Global Campus and Fiona Sussan, Toyo University, Japan—Why AI Has Not (Yet) Destroyed Jobs: Evidence from Firm Level Adoption
Martin Gelter, Fordham University School of Law and Julia Puaschunder, International University of Monaco—The Political Economy of Corporate Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Case for a Universal Individual Account (UIA)
Nancy Nzom, Regent University, Virginia—Algorithmic Management and Labour Regulation: Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace in Emerging Economies
Steven Payson, Johns Hopkins University
Rolando Santos, John Carroll University | |
1.113 Early Childhood Care and Education Markets and Policy (Symposium)
Presenters: Ethan Jenkins, Gabrielle Pepin and Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Effects of Child Care Provider Grants: Evidence from Six States
Katharine Sadowski, Stanford University—The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Workforce Composition in Childcare Establishments
Gabrielle Pepin, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Jonathan Borowsky, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Elizabeth E. Davis, University of Minnesota; and Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Six Key Facts about Child Care Customer and Worker Commutes
Katharine Sadowski, Stanford University and Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Workforce Dynamics and the Role of Firms in U.S. Childcare, 2000–2025
Yana Gallen, University of Chicago | |
1.114 Labor Market Effects of Aggressive Immigration Enforcement in Trump 2.0 (Symposium)
Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Christopher Campos, University of Chicago—When ICE Comes to Town: The Effects of Immigration Enforcement Operations on Local Economic Activity
Michael Reich, University of California Berkeley and Denis Sosinskiy, University of California, Berkeley—Effects of ICE Surges on Restaurants
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis
Madeline Zavodny, University of North Florida | |
1.115 Technological Change, Human Capital, and Labor Market Adaptation (Symposium)
Presenters: Nai-Yun Chang, National Taiwan Normal University and Yun-Cheng Tsai, National Taiwan Normal University—The Impact of Generative AI-Mediated Communication on Psychological Safety: A Longitudinal Experiment with Early-Career Professionals
Ya-Li Hu and Yun-Cheng Tsai, National Taiwan Normal University—Digital Technologies and Workforce Skill Formation in Emerging Labor Markets
Wai-Pui Wilbur Kwan and Yun-Cheng Tsai, National Taiwan Normal University—Technological Change and Labor Market Mobility in the Digital Economy
Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
1.125 Worker Perspectives: Stuck in Struggle (Symposium)
Presenters: Sarah Miller, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Merissa Piazza, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—Worker Voices Project Overview
Kristen E. Broady, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago—The U.S. Labor Market: Changes in Conditions from Post-Pandemic to Today
Mia Rawls, American Federation of Government Employees Member—The Decline of Union Membership in the Federal Public Sector: Origins, Analyses, and Current Strategies for Membership Growth | |
1.128 Non-Wage Amenities (Symposium)
Presenters: Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Katherine Lim, USDA; Douglas Webber and Mike Zabek, Federal Reserve Board of Governors—Local Labor Market Tightness and Job Quality: Evidence from Job Changers
Sreeraahul Kancherla and Stephanie Karol, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis; Jennifer Mayo, DePaul University, Department of Economics; and Carl McPherson, University of California Berkeley—Reassessing the Nonprofit Earnings Penalty: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Tax Data
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland; Susan N. Houseman and Beth C. Truesdale, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—For Love or Money? Why Americans Work Second Jobs
Alex Bell, Georgia State University; Saman Darougheh and Alexander Dietrich, Danmarks Nationalbank; and Jonna Olsson, NHH Norwegian School of Economics—The Hidden Cost of Family-Friendly Work: Evidence from Denmark
Jason Sockin, Cornell University | |
1.129 Beyond Barriers: New Evidence on Work, Living, and Care for People with Disabilities (Symposium)
Presenters: Lilia Maliar and Marian Melnyk, CUNY Graduate Center—Who Benefits from Remote Work? Heterogeneous Effects among Workers with Disabilities
Steven Stern and Shafira Widjaja, Stony Brook University—Determinants of Housing Situation for Adults with Cognitive Impairments | |
1.131 LERA Featured Plenary
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1.132 LERA and IAFFE: Global Perspectives on Wages, Amenities, and Women in the Labor Force (Symposium)
Presenters: Beata Wozniak-Jechorek, Poznan University of Economics and Business; Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University; and Michal Pilc, Poznan University of Economics and Business—Is Remote Work More Attractive for Mothers? A Survey-Based Experiment in Six EU Countries
Reva Resstack, American University—Migration Shocks and Informal Labor: Gendered Evidence from Post-Pandemic Peru
Tracey Freiberg, St. John's University and Martha Susana Jaimes, IPWR—Paid Leave as Care Infrastructure: Effects on Women’s Retirement Timing and Retirement Preparedness
Giovana Cavaggioni Bigliazzi, Insper Institute of Research and Education and Mônica Yukie Kuwahara, Federal University of ABC—Gender as a Conversion Barrier: Capability Deprivation and Labor Market Exclusion Among Poor Women in Brazil | |
1.133 When Law Meets Labor: Enforcement, Costs, and Workforce Dynamics (Symposium)
Presenters: Kassandra Hernandez, University of California Berkeley and Enrique Lopezlira, University of California, Berkeley—Worker-led Lawsuits: The Effects of California’s Private Attorneys General Act on Business Behavior Across the State
Fadime Irem Dogan, BAU Global—Reflections of Probation on the Labor Market: A Regional Analysis in Turkey in the Context of Socioeconomic Factors and Crime Ty | |
1.134 From Bots to Barriers: How AI Is Reshaping Work and Opportunity (Symposium)
Presenters: Cassandra Merritt, University of Notre Dame; Jacob Dominski, University of Maryland; Christopher Hoy, World Bank; and Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame—Managers as Gatekeepers in the Age of AI
Eduard Bruell, ZEW Mannheim; Samuel Maeurer and Davud Rostam-Afschar, University of Mannheim—Beliefs about Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work
Avner Ben-Ner, University of Minnesota; Ya-Ting Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ainhoa Urtasun, Public University of Navarre; and Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—AI, Robotics, and Skill Demands
Samuel Westby, Alicia Sasser Modestino and Peiran Cheng, Northeastern University—The Impact of Generative AI on Job Opportunities for Junior Software Developers | |
1.135 Aging, Care, and Disability (Symposium)
Presenters: Enrique Lopezlira, University of California, Berkeley—Low-Wage Older Workers in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment Constraints and Barriers to Mobility
Marian Melnyk and Lilia Maliar, CUNY Graduate Center—Work from Home and Disability Employment: Not All Barriers Are Equal
Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore and Laurie A. Schintler, George Mason University—AI, Skill Obsolescence, and the Labor Market Risks Facing Older Workers
Regina Pana-Cryan and Abay Asfaw, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Work arrangement and worker well-being post-pandemic | |
1.136 Labor Markets: Productivity, Competition, and Distortions (Symposium)
Presenters: Tsenguunjav Byambasuren, Trinity College Dublin—Automation Threat and Labor Market Power
Sangeun Ha, Copenhagen Business School and Manpreet Singh, Georgia Tech—Preemptive Corporate Environmental Investment: Evidence from Toxic Releases
Gunjan Seth, University of Southern California and Manpreet Singh, Georgia Tech—Pollution, Pooling, and Premiums: Spillovers from Toxic Plant Entry on Corporate Healthcare Costs
Chengyuan Hua, West Virginia University—What Manager Traits Matter? Productivity as a Worker and Common Characteristics with Workers | |
1.137 Flexibility in Labor Markets (Symposium)
Presenters: Abay Asfaw, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Parental Nonstandard Work Schedule and Children's Educational Outcomes
Virgel C. Binghay and Jose Maria G. Binghay, University of the Philippines Diliman—Is Platform Work Truly Flexible? Rethinking Flexibility Among Filipino Delivery Riders in the Gig Economy
Polona Domadenik Muren, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business—Flexibility Without Security: Job Quality, Algorithmic Control and the Hidden Costs of Platform Work in Slovenia | |
| 12:15 pm | Meeting adjourned, thank you for attending! |