Sunday | Conference Activities • 1/3/2021 |
| 10 am - 12 pm (EST) | |
Presenters: Nyanya E Browne and Bethel Cole-Smith, Howard University—The Chinese Trade Shock and Union Membership and Employer Opposition
Lucombo J. Luveia and David W. Dongo, Howard University—The Chinese Trade Shock and Employer Concentration
James L. Flowers, Howard University—Gender Differences and Food Sufficiency During the 2020 Pandemic
Philippe Askenazy, CNRS-ENS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs and Thomas Breda, CNRS-Paris School of Economics—Electoral Democracy at Work
Damon Jones, University of Chicago
Andria Smythe, Howard University | |
1.2 Nonwage Job Attributes: What They Cost Firms and Workers (Symposium)
Presenters: Jed Kolko, Indeed.com; David Powell, RAND; and Jeffrey Wenger, University of Georgia—Understanding the Costs of Work Arrangements to Firms
Sarah H. Bana, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kelly Bedard, University of California-Santa Barbara; Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University; and Jenna Stearns, University of California-Davis—Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
Amanda Grittner and Matthew S. Johnson, Duke University—Complaint-Based Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Ioana Elena Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania; Yue Qiu, Temple University; and Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota—Inequality, Wages, and Labor-Rights Violations
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University | |
| 12:15 ‑ 2:15 pm (EST) | |
2.1 Matching in Markets with Information Frictions: Applications in Labor Markets and School Choice (Symposium)
Presenters: Ron Laschever, Compass Lexecon and Russell Weinstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions
Adam Kapor, Princeton University; Seth Zimmerman, University of Chicago; and Chris Neilson, Princeton University—Evaluating School Choice Mechanism Changes
Alan Benson, University of Minnesota; Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, University of California, Los Angeles—Discrimination in Hiring
Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University
Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania | |
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
Damon Jones, University of Chicago | |
| 3:45 ‑ 5:45 pm (EST) | |
3.1 The Old Gig Economy: The Extent of Payroll Fraud in Construction, its Cost to Society, and Approaches to Its Regulation (Symposium)
Dale Belman, Michigan State University and Russell Ormiston, Allegheny College—How Widespread is Payroll Fraud?
Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project—The New Gig Economy: Is it the New Model for Deregulation?
David Weil, Brandeis University—Modern Approaches to Regulating Misclassification and Off-the-Books Employment in Construction
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland | |
3.2 The Teacher Strike Wave and the Effects of Work Stoppages (Symposium)
Presenters: Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University—On Strike for Our Students: The Upsurge of Teachers Strikes since 2018
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu and Adam Reich, Columbia University—Do Teacher Strikes Make Parents Pro- or Anti-Labor? The Effects of Labor Unrest on Mass Attitudes
Maxim Massenkoff, University of California, Berkeley and Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—The Effects of Strikes on Firms and Workers
Stacy Davis-Gates, Chicago Teachers Union | |
Monday | Conference Activities • 1/4/2021 |
| 10 am ‑ 12 pm (EST) | |
4.1 The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing (Symposium)
Presenters: Christos Makridis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kofi Ampaabeng, Patrick McLaughlin and Steve Strosko, George Mason University; and Ted Figinski, Treasury—Barriers to Opportunity: The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Occupational and Career Mobility
Michele Pellizzari, University of Geneva; Gaetano Basso, Bank of Italy; Eleonora Brandimarti, University of Geneva; and Giovanni Pica, Universita della Svizzera Italiana—Quality and Selection in Regulated Professions
Davud Rostam-Afschar, University of Hohenheim; Maria Koumenta, Queen Mary University of London; and Mario Pagliero, University of Torino—Occupational Licensing, Migrant Earnings and Employment: Evidence from the EU
Edward J. Timmons and Ilya Kukaev, Saint Francis University and Robert J. Thornton, Lehigh University—The De-licensing of Occupations in the U.S.
John Barrios, University of Chicago
Darwyyn Deyo, San Jose State Univesity | |
4.2 When Work Hours are Too Short, Too Long or Too Unstable: Consequences for Worker Health, Productivity and Work-Family Interfaces (Symposium)
Presenters: Amit Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sunjin Pak, Slippery Rock University at Pennsylvania—Long Working Hours Work-Family Conflict, and Work-Family Enrichment: The Mediating Role of Exhaustion and Vigor
Alex M. Kowalski and Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—The Productivity and Turnover Costs of Unstable Schedules and Who Bears Them: An Examination of Work Hours in Warehousing
Lonnie Golden, Penn State Abington; Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Alison Dickson, University of Illinois at Chicago—The State of Scheduling Stability: IL and PA
Jaeseung Kim, University of South Carolina and Lonnie Golden, Penn State Abington—Involuntary Part Time Work and Underemployment in the US and Its Consequences for Work-Life
Julie Vogtman, National Women's Law Center | |
| 12:15 ‑ 2:15 pm (EST) | |
Presenters: Annette Nierobisz, Carleton College—Talkin' 'Bout My Generation: Older, Unemployed Workers Critique the Workplace Orientations of Millennials, Boomers, and the Silent Generat'ion
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Purdue University—Returning to Work-Lactation, Child Care, and Flexibility Needs of Parent Workers
Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—"Bringing in the Nukes": A History of the 9to5 Job Survival Hotline
Marquita Walker, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis—Training For My Life: The Lived Experiences of Dislocated Workers in an Advanced Manufacturing Training Program
Paul-Brian McInerney, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Presenters: Aida Farmand, New School for Social Research and Owen Davis, The New School for Social Research—EITC For Me But Not For Thee: Tax Credits and Job Turnover In Graying Occupations
Joanna Lahey and Doug Oxley, Texas A&M University—Age Discrimination, HR Managers, and Eye-tracking: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Erjola Zotkaj, The New School for Social Research and William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University—The Impact of Robot Intensity on Employment and Wages of Older Workers
Andrew Weaver and Suyeon Kang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Training and Technical Change
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University
Siavash Radpour, New School for Social Research | |
| 3:45 ‑ 5:45 pm (EST) | |
6.1 Caregiving, Work, and Social Programs (Symposium)
Presenters: Tine L. Mundbjerg Eriksen, VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research; Amanda Gaulke, Kansas State University; Niels Skipper, Aarhus University; and Jannet Svensson, Copenhagen University Hospital—The Impact of Childhood Health Shocks on Parental Labor Supply
Stephanie Rennane and Lynn Karoly, RAND Corporation—Understanding the Impact of Supplemental Security Income on Reducing Disparities in Caregiving Burden for Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Priyanka Anand, George Mason University; Laura Dague, Texas A & M; and Kathryn L. Wagner, Marquette University—The Role of Paid Family Leave in Spousal Labor Supply Responses to a Disability or Health Shock
Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles | |
6.2 Job Quality and Job Loss (Symposium)
Presenters: Pawel Krolikowski and Kurt G. Lunsford, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—Advance Layoff Notices and Labor Market Forecasting
Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Copenhagen Business School and Etienne Lalé, University of Quebec in Montreal—The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-time Employment
Amanda Michaud, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Kathrin Ellieroth, Colby College—From Trend to Cycle: The Changing Careers of Married Women and Business Cycle Risk
Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board; Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau; and Seth M. Murray, Federal Reserve Board—Cyclical Labor Market Sorting
Erin L. Wolcott, Middlebury College | |
Tuesday | Conference Activities • 1/5/2021 |
| 10 am ‑ 12 pm (EST) | |
7.1 Minimum Wages, Self-employment, and Job Vacancies (Symposium)
Presenters: Benjamin Glasner, University of Washington—The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy
Didem Tuzemen, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; and Murat Tasci, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies
Dillan Francesca Bono-Lunn, Elon University; Jeremy Grant Moulton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and John Scott, Pew Charitable Trusts—State Minimum Wage Increases and Self-Employment: Analysis of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Across Occupations | |
7.2 Why and How Do Labor Markets Differ? (Symposium)
Presenters: Tomaz Cajner, John Coglianese and Joshua Montes, Federal Reserve Board of Governors—The Long-Lived Cyclicality of the Labor Force Participation Rate
Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Bryan Stuart, George Washington University—The Response of the Social Safety Net to Recessions
Kevin Rinz, John Voorheis and Caroline Walker, U.S. Census Bureau—Re-Examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami | |
| 12:15 ‑ 2:15 pm (EST) | |
8.1 Gender Gaps in Careers (Symposium)
Presenters: Takao Kato, Colgate University; Yukiko Asai, University of Chicago; and Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University—Careers of Married Women and the Nature of Husbands' Work: Evidence from Japan
Julie Nelson Wellmann and Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota—The Primary Breadwinner Premium, Gender, and Job Context
Brendan Price, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Melanie Wasserman, University of California, Los Angeles—Seasonal Fluctuations in Female Labor Supply
Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota | |
8.2 Workers' Beliefs about Attributes of Prospective Jobs (Symposium)
Presenters: Patricia Cortes, Boston University; Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore; Laura Pilossoph, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Ernesto Reuben, NYU Abu Dhabi; and Basit Zafar, Arizona State University—Sequential Labor Search in the Lab and Gender Differences
Jason Sockin, University of Pennsylvania and Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota—What's the Inside Scoop? Addressing Workers' Information Problems with Public, Firm Reputation
John J. Conlon, Harvard University; Laura Pilossoph, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Matthew Wiswall, University of Wisconsin - Madison; and Basit Zafar, Arizona State University—Labor Market Search With Imperfect Information and Learning
Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors—The Determinants of Physicians' Location Choice: Understanding the Rural Shortage
David Powell, RAND
Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota | |
| 3:45 ‑ 5:45 pm (EST) | |
9.1 Employer Responses to Minimum Wage Policy (Symposium)
Presenters: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments
Yuci Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—What Do Establishments Do When Wages Increase? Evidence from Minimum Wage in the United States
Xuan Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology—Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
Krista Ruffini, University of California, Berkeley
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | |
9.2 Inequality, Race, and Ethnicity (Symposium)
Presenters: Leo Lewis, University of Minnesota—Post-retirement Employment, Occupation and Health of Retired NFL Players
Man Xu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities—Economic Returns to Han-Minzu Marriage: Evidence from Western China
Greg Price, University of New Orleans—Is Trade Openness With China An Initial Driver of Cross-Country Human Coronavirus Infections?
William Spriggs, AFL-CIO |