Friday | Conference Activities • 1/4/2019 |
8 - 10 am | |
1.1 Human Capital and Careers in Organizations: Theory and Evidence (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Michael Waldman, Cornell University; Emre Ekinci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; and Antti Kauhanen, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)—Bonuses and Promotion Tournaments: Theory and Evidence
Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University; Takao Kato, Colgate University; and Nina Smith, Aarhus University—Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Jed DeVaro, California State University, East Bay; Antti Kauhanen and Nelli Valmari, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)—Internal and External Hiring: The Role of Prior Work History
Hodaka Morita, Hitotsubashi University and Cheng-Tao Tang, International University of Japan—Asset Specificity, Human Capital Acquisition, and Labor Market Competition
Dora Gicheva, University of North Carolina at Greensboro | |
1.2 The Effects of Firm and Co-Worker Behaviors on Employee Outcomes: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Administrative Data (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: Benjamin S. Smith, Federal Trade Commission—The Role of Labor Market Entry and Exports in Sorting: Evidence from West Germany
Diego Daruich, Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis; Sabrina Di Addario, Bank of Italy; and Raffaele Saggio, University of California, Berkeley—The Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reforms: Evidence from Italy
Andy Garin, Harvard University and Filipe Silverio, Bank of Portugal—Do Wage Adjustments Reflect Firm-Level Labor Demand or Market Competition? Evidence from Idiosyncratic Export Demand Shocks
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Alexandre Mas, Princeton University; and Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University—The Role of Firms in Determining Work Hours
Till M. von Wachter, UCLA | |
10:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |
2.1 Explaining the Decline in Labor Force Participation in the U.S. (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: Katharine G. Abraham and Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland—Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence
Janet Currie, Jonas Jin and Molly Schnell, Princeton University—U.S. Employment and Opioids: Is there a Connection?
Adam Looney, The Brookings Institute and Nicholas Turner, Federal Reserve Board—Work and Opportunity before and after Incarceration
Mark Duggan, Stanford University | |
2.2 The Consequences of Rising Inequality for Mobility and Economic Well-Being (Symposium)—Hanover F
Presenters: Michael Carr and Emily Wiemers, University of Massachusetts-Boston—The Role of Education and Gender in Trends in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the U.S.
David Johnson, University of Michigan and Jonathan Fisher, Stanford University—Inequality and Mobility Over the Past Half Century Using Income, Consumption and Wealth
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University; Darrick Hamilton, The New School; Bradley L. Hardy, American University; and Jonathan Morduch, New York University—Wealth Inequality, Income Volatility, and Race
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Merve Meral, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; and Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University—The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Assistance for Displaced Workers
Douglas Webber, Temple University | |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 pm | |
3.1 Improving Selection of Job Applicants: Harnessing Resume, Interview and Recommender Signals for K12 Teaching (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Brian Jacob, University of Michigan; Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University; Eric S. Taylor, Harvard University; Benjamin Lindy, Teach for America; and Rachel Rosen, MDRC—Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from DC Public Schools
Sima Sajjadiani, Aaron Sojourner, John Kammeyer-Mueller and Elton Mykerezi, University of Minnesota—Using Machine Learning to Translate Pre-Hire Work History into Predictors of Performance and Retention
Paul Bruno, University of Southern California and Katharine O. Strunk, Michigan State University—Making the Cut: The Effectiveness of Teacher Screening and Hiring in the Los Angeles Unified School District
Dan Goldhaber, University of Washington & AIR and Cyrus Grout, University of Washington—Direct from the Source: To What Extent Do Ratings of Teacher Applicants By Professional References Predict the Likelihood of Being Hired and Job Performance?
Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania | |
3.2 Roundtable on "Improving Employment and Earnings in Twenty-First Century Labor Markets" (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: Richard B. Freeman and George Borjas, Harvard University—From Immigrants to Robots: The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University— Race in the Labor Market: The Role of Equal Employment Opportunity and Other Policies
Harry Holzer, Georgetown University | |
4:45 ‑ 5:45 pm | 4.1 LERA Plenary: A Firm-Level Explanation for Stagnant Wages?—International South
Panelists: Till M. von Wachter, UCLA; David Weil, Brandeis University; and Erika McEntarfer, U.S. Census Bureau—Panel discussion |
6 ‑ 7 pm | Co-Chairs: Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Till M. von Wachter, UCLA |
Saturday | Conference Activities • 1/5/2019 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
5.1 New Research on Participation and Employee Ownership: International Evidence (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Takao Kato, Colgate University; Hideaki Miyajima, Waseda University; and Hideo Owan, University of Tokyo—Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly-traded Firms in Japan
Paige Ouimet, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Geoffrey A. Tate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—Attention for the Inattentive in Employee Stock Ownership Plans
Alex Bryson, University College London; Andrew E. Clark, Paris School of Economics; and Colin P. Green, Norwegian University of Science and Technology—Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
Trevor Young-Hyman, University of Pittsburg katz Graduate School of Business and Nathalie Magne, Paul Valery University, Montpellier 3—How Workplace Democracy Moderates the Effects of Workforce Diversity: Evidence from Worker Cooperatives in France
Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University | |
5.2 Vacancies and Recruitment (Symposium)—Grand Hall East A
Presenters: Eliza Forsythe and Russell Weinstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Recruiting Intensity over the Business Cycle
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Murat Tasci, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; and Didem Tuzemen, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City—Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies
Ioana Elena Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania; Nadav Klein, University of Chicago; Andrew Chamberlain and Morgan Smart, Glassdoor, Inc.—Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University
John Horton, New York University | |
10:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |
6.1 Regulating Employer Market Power (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan and Evan Starr, University of Maryland—Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge of Noncompete Laws: Evidence from an Information Experiment
Ioana Elena Marinescu and Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Pennsylvania—Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and Eric Posner, University of Chicago—Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power
Victor Bennett, Duke University | |
6.2 Worker and Employer Responses to Paid Family Leave Policies (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Marcus Dillender and Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Paid Family Leave and Employer Skill Demand: Evidence from Job Postings
Jenna Stearns, University of California-Davis—The Long-Run Effects of Wage Replacement and Job Protection: Evidence from Two Maternity Leave Reforms in Great Britain
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 Access to Paid Family Leave: The Role of Employers
Tanya Byker, Middlebury College | |
2:30 ‑ 4:30 pm | |
Panelists: Michelle Welch, Laura and John Arnold Foundation; Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago; Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy J. Bartik, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; and Maggie Reeves, Georgia State University—Panel discussion | |
7.2 Occupations and Job Polarization (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and Ryan Nunn, The Brookings Institution—Why are Fewer Workers Earning Middle Wages and Is It a Bad Thing?
Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Sylvia Kaufmann, Study Center Gerzensee—The Cyclical Component of Labor Market Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
Isabel Cairo, Federal Reserve Board; Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau; and Nellie L. Zhao, Cornell University—The U.S. Job Ladder in the New Millennium
Claudia Macaluso, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cynthia Doniger, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System—Early-Career Occupational Choices of Low-Skill Workers: A Historical Perspective
David Wiczer, Stony Brook University | |
Sunday | Conference Activities • 1/6/2019 |
8 ‑ 10 am | |
8.1 Work, Weather, and Migration (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Christos Makridis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tyler Ransom, University of Oklahoma—Beating the Heat: Temperature and Spatial Reallocation over the Long Run
Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University and Bo Liu, Southern New Hampshire University—Does Winter Weather Decrease Work?
Zhengyu Cai, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Heather Stephens, West Virginia University; and John Winters, Iowa State University—Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Maria Esther Caballero, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian Cadena, University of Colorado; and Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University—The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks
Tyler Ransom, University of Oklahoma | |
8.2 Working for Whom? New Evidence on the Incidence of Independent Contracting (Symposium)—Hanover C
Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland; and Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Gig and Other Contract Work: Developing Better Measures in Household Surveys
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago—Consumption Insurance and Multiple Jobs: Evidence from Rideshare Drivers
Shanthi Ramnath, U.S. Department of Treasury | |
10:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |
9.1 Regulation of Occupations across Nations (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: Peter Q. Blair, Clemson University—How Much of a Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?
Tingting Zhang, Western New England University—Effects of Occupational Licensing and Unions on Labour Market Earnings in Canada
Maria Koumenta, Queen Mary, University of London and Mario Pagliero, University of Torino—Occupational Licensing, Labour Mobility and Migrant Wages: Evidence from the EU
Morris Kleiner, University of Minnesota and Evan Soltas, University of Oxford—Occupational Licensing, Labor Supply, and Human Capital
Jason Hicks, University of Minnesota
Mark Klee, Bureau of the Census
Victoria Udalova, U.S. Bureau of the Census | |
9.2 Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (Symposium)—Hanover B
Presenters: Robert Valletta, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco—Unemployment Benefit Extensions and the U.S. Macroeconomy: A Critical Assessment
Andrew C. Johnston, University of California, Merced and Maxim Massenkoff, University of California at Berkeley—Hurry-up and Wait: The Causes and Consequences of Waiting to Take-up Unemployment Insurance
David L. Fuller, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Stephane Auray, CREST Ensai and ULCO; and Nicolas Lepage-Saucier, CREST Ensai—Why Do Half of Unemployment Benefits Go Unclaimed?
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University
Christopher O'Leary, W.E. Upjohn Institute | |
1 ‑ 3 pm | |
10.1 Policies to Increase Employment Security: Federal Jobs Guarantee, Wage Subsidies and Beyond (Symposium)—Hanover C
Presenters: Price Fishback and Michelle Liu, University of Arizona—Racial Disparities in Access to New Deal Programs in the 1930s
Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia—General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Kali Grant, Georgetown University; Julie Kerksick, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute; Dan Bloom, MDRC; and Ajay Chaudry, New York University—Working to Reduce Poverty: A National Subsidized Employment Proposal
Mark Paul, New College of Florida; William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University; Darrick Hamilton, The New School; and Anne Price, Insight Center for Community Economic Development—Returning to the Promise of Full Employment: A Federal Job Guarantee in the United States
Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota |