Friday | Conference Activities • 1/3/2025 |
8 - 10 am | |
1.1 Healthcare and Labor Markets (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Garrett Anstreicher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration—Community Health Centers and Social Security Disability Insurance Applications
Kathryn Johnson and Claudia Persico, American University—Broadband Internet Access, Economic Growth, and Suicide
Seungwhan Chun and Marco Duarte, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Cici McNamara, Georgia Institute of Technology—Evaluating Substitutes for Antitrust: The Case of COPA Laws
Qing Gong, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Min He, Nankai University; Lin Lin, East China Normal University; and Bo Wang, Nankai University—Medicare on the Back Burner? Provider Labor Supply Responses to ACA-Driven Changes in Patient Payer Mix
Abay Asfaw and Anasua Bhattacharya, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Does Longest-held Occupation Predict Mortality Risk? Evidence from a 29-year Follow-up Study of Elderly U.S. Adults
Jiee Zhong, Miami University
Lynn M. Hua, Georgia State University
Danea Horn, University of California, San Francisco
Yun Taek Oh, University of Nevada Reno | |
1.2 Immigration (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Joelle Saad-Lessler, Stevens Institute of Technology and Florence Neymotin, Nova Southeastern University, Huizenga College of Business—Surprising Impacts of Immigration?
Steve Sauerwald, University of Houston and Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago—When Trump Said Jump: Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University Newark and Omid Bagheri, Kent State University—H-1B Program, Entry Visa Type and Skilled Immigrant Earnings
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Middlebury College and IZA
Jorge Medina, Stevens Institute of Technology | |
10:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |
2.1 Data Mining Union and Franchise Agreements (Symposium)—Parc 55
Ulrich Atz, New York University; Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago; Sergio Pinto, University of Maryland; and Marshall Steinbaum, University of Utah—The Balance of Power in Franchising
Michael H.F. Thorburn, Stanford Law School—Greening the Workplace: Climate Action Through Collective Bargaining Agreements | |
2.2 Diversity and the Workplace (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Yukiko Asai, University of Chicago and Hideo Owan, University of Tokyo—Gender Gaps in Self-Evaluations: Evidence from Employment Records
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University; Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St Louis; and Taeho Kim, University of Toronto—Do Teams Perform Differently Under Black and Hispanic Leaders? Evidence from the Chicago Police Department
Lin Xiu and Yufei Ren, University of Minnesota Duluth; Feng Lv, Nankai University; and Thomas Lange, Abu Dhabi University—Unveiling the Shield: Female Leadership Mitigating Workplace Sexism's Effect on Performance
Wenchen Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology and Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore—Examining Wage Gaps and Employment: Gender and Race Perspectives | |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 PM | |
3.1 Caregiving, Work, and Wages (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Jessica Forden, The New School for Social Research and Anastasia Christina Wilson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges—Capital and the Direct Care Sector
Emilia Brito, California Center for Population Research, UCLA—The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap
Aida Farmand, University of California Berkeley; Siavash Radpour, Stockton University; and Jessica Forden, The New School for Social Research—Impacts of Sandwich caregiving on Labor Market Outcomes
Kate Bahn, WorkRise @ The Urban Institute and Lauren Fung, The Urban Institute—Care Work as a Driver of Inequality and Policies to Reverse the Devaluation of Care
Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
3.2 Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Policies (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and Yun Taek Oh, University of Nevada Reno—Does Universal Licensing Recognition Improve Patient Access? Evidence from Healthcare Utilization
Marc Law, University of Vermont; Mindy Marks and Tomer Stern, Northeastern University—Teacher Testing Standards and the New Teacher Pipeline
Kihwan Bae and Edward J. Timmons, West Virginia University—The Impact of Occupational Licensing on For-Profit Programs
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and Bobby Chung, University of South Florida—Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Vitor Melo, West Virginia University
Wenchen Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ethan Ellis, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | |
Saturday | Conference Activities • 1/4/2025 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
4.1 Care Occupations, Gender, and Markets (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Jessica Forden, The New School for Social Research and Kate Bahn, WorkRise @ The Urban Institute—Occupational Crowding, Care Work, and Monopsony
, Momentum Institut—Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: The Influence of Monopsony Power and Labor Market Concentration
Won Fy Lee, First 5 California; Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Elizabeth E. Davis, University of Minnesota; and Jonathan Borowsky, University of Minnesota Twin Cities—Effect of Child Care Regulations on Child Care Markets: Evidence from Policy Discontinuity at the Border
Martin Garcia Vazquez, Washington University in Saint Louis—The Equilibrium Effects of State-mandated Minimum Staff-to-child Ratios
Ofronama Biu, Urban institute | |
4.2 Quality and Innovation in the Labor Markets (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Richard A. Benton, Climate Jobs Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Financialization and Job Quality
Clair Brown, University of California Berkeley—Ranking Fifty Countries by the Quality of Their Labor Market Policies
Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore and Laurie A. Schintler, George Mason University—AI Integration and Labor Relations: Navigating Skill Adaptation in an Evolving Workforce
Polona Domadenik Muren and Hana Koncan, University of Ljubljana—AI on the Workplace: The Role of Workers' Participation in Decision Making | |
10:15 AM ‑ 12:15 PM | |
5.1 Immigration and Immigration Policies (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Kevin Shih, UC Riverside and Selen Ozdogan, CUNY Graduate Center—Immigration and Education: Early Insights from the Buslift to NYC
Mark Borgschulte, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yuci Chen, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; and Eduardo Medina-Cortina, Cornerstone Research—U.S. Immigration and Labor Market Effects of the Mexican Drug War
Michael Clemens, George Mason University and Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College—The Effect of Low-skill Immigration Restrictions on U.S. Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Christian Ambrosius, Freie Universität Berlin; Juliana Quigua, University of Oxford; and Andrea Velasquez, University of Colorado Denver—Externalities of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies: Evidence from El Salvador
Eduardo Medina-Cortina, Cornerstone Research | |
5.2 Labor Monopsony, Firms, and Demographic Gaps (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Justin Bloesch, Cornell University and Birthe Larsen, Copenhagen Business School—When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power?
Zhanhan Yu, University of Glasgow and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Syracuse University—Monopsony in Academia and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from California
Jason Sockin, Cornell University | |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 PM | |
6.1 Income and the Workplace (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Florence Neymotin and William Hawks, Nova Southeastern University, Huizenga College of Business—Minimum Wages and Foster Care Placement Disruption
Richard Mansfield, Jeronimo Carballo and Charles Adam Pfander, University of Colorado-Boulder—U.S. Worker Mobility Across Establishments within Firms: Scope, Prevalence, and Effects on Worker Earnings
Yingchun Wang, University of Houston Downtown; Jason D. Shaw, Nanyang Technological University; and Atul Mitra, University of Northern Iowa—The Merit Raise Conundrum: Unpacking the Role of Self-Esteem and Social Comparison
Yuliya Vanzhulova Tavares, Queen Mary University of London—How Do Algorithmic Gig and Cloud Work Shape the Economic Perspective of Job Quality? | |
6.2 Unions and Racial/Ethnic Inequality (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Christian E. Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston and David Madland, Center for American Progress—Documenting the Racial Wealth Gap by Union Membership
Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research—How Unions Help Workers Build Wealth and Avoid Debt
Kyle Moore, Economic Policy Institute—Intergenerational Wealth and Health Effects of Union Membership Across Race
Samuel Dodini and Alexander Willen, Norwegian School of Economics and Julia Li Zhu, San Diego State University—The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration
Nari Rhee, University of California Berkeley | |
Sunday | Conference Activities • 1/5/2025 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
7.1 Exploring Gender Dynamics and Educational Policies: Impacts on Entrepreneurship, Workforce Participation, and Earnings (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Cynthia Bansak, St. Lawrence University; Susan Averett, Lafayette College; Grace Condon, Boston Consulting Group; and Eva Dziadula, University of Notre Dame—The Gendered Impact of In-State Tuition Policies on Undocumented Immigrants' College Enrollment, Graduation, and Employment
Mary Kaltenberg and Eric Osborn, Pace University—New York State of Mind: The impact of Pre-K 3 on the Female Workforce Participation Rate
Alina Malkova, Florida Institute of Technology—The Power of Skills: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential through Vocational Education
Afrouz Azadikhah Jahromi, Widener University—Job Displacement and Gender Inequality in the Distribution of Earning Losses
Sonia Karami, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | |
7.2 Licensing (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—The Impact of Recognizing Foreign Occupational Credentials on Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes in Canada
Wenchen Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology—Universal Licensing Recognition (ULR), Whether Illinois Should Adopt It?
Kihwan Bae, West Virginia University—Effects of Occupational Licensing on Migrants' Labor Supply: Evidence from Military Spouses in the U.S.
Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and Wenchen Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology—The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector
Yun Taek Oh, University of Nevada Reno | |
10:15 AM ‑ 12:15 PM | |
8.1 Labor Market Power and Rent-Sharing (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Alex Xi He, University of Maryland and Sophia Xue, Georgia State University—Acquired Minds: How M&As Shape Inventors’ Career Trajectories and Innovation
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Daniel Gallego, Northwestern University; Hyunseob Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; and Till M. von Wachter, University of California Los Angeles—The Labor Market Impact of Shareholder Power: Worker-Level Evidence
Gregor Schubert, University of California Los Angeles; Anna Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Bledi Taska, SkyHive—Employer Concentration and Outside Options
Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame—Effects of Right-to-Work on Unionization, Labor Demand, and Automation
Joseph Tatarka, University of Chicago—Right to Work in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Alex Xi He, University of Maryland
Sydnee Caldwell, University of California Berkeley | |
8.2 Impact of Contracts on the Workplace (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Kuochih Huang, National Chung Cheng University—Unpaid Overtime, Compensating Utility, and Wage Theft
Tony Mazzucco, Town of Norwood/Valdosta State University—Who Uses the Massachusetts Joint Labor Management Committee: A Case Study in Participants
Enrique Lopezlira and Aida Farmand, University of California Berkeley—The Effects of Project Labor Agreements on Affordable Housing Construction Costs in California
David Levine, University of California Berkeley
Joelle Saad-Lessler, Stevens Institute of Technology | |
1 ‑ 3 pm | |
9.1 Compliance and Enforcement of Labor and Employment Law (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Daniel Schneider, Harvard University and David Weil, Brandeis University—Labor Standards Compliance and Worker Complaints: New Data and Insights
Matthew S. Johnson, Duke University; Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University; David Levine, University of California Berkeley; and Alison Pei, Duke University—Management Practices, Workplace Injuries, and the Effects of Safety Regulations
Jeffrey Paul Clemens, University of California San Diego and Michael Strain, American Enterprise Institute—Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Anna Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the U.S. and the U.K.
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Michael Reich, University of California Berkeley | |
9.2 Advances in Labor Markets and Aggregate Efficiency (Symposium)—Parc 55
Presenters: Donn Feir, University of Victoria, NBER, IZA; Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau; and Kelly Foley, University of Saskatchewan—Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Natalie Duncombe, U.S. Government Accountability Office—Missing Routine Work: Automation and the Life Cycle
Teega Zeida, Brock University—Optimal Labor and Business Taxes in Presence of Income Reclassification
Kathrin Ellieroth, Colby College and Amanda Michaud, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis—Quits, Layoffs, and Labor Supply | |
Co-Chairs: Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Illenin Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |