Perspectives on (Un-)Employment

Thursday, 18 January 2024

• 09:30 a.m. Registration
• 10:00 a.m. Introduction
• 10:15 a.m. Welcome Address / Opening Speech Bernd Fitzenberger, Director of the IAB
• 10:30 a.m. Session I
  Unemployment Chair: Silke Anger
  • 1. Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification
    Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • 2. Implicit Discrimination in Unemployment Benefits
    Fabian Reutzel, Paris School of Economics
  • 3. Getting Inspired: Effects of an Info Treatment on Jobseekers‘ Occupational Mobility
    Eva Kleifgen, Institute for Employment Research
• 12.00 a.m.
  Lunch break
• 01:00 p.m. Keynote Speech I
  • 4. tba
    Gerard van den Berg, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen and IFAU Uppsala
• 02:00 p.m. Session II
  Survey Methodology Using Labor Market Data Chair: Jörg Drechsler
  • 5. Going Online with a Telephone Employee Survey: Effects on Coverage Bias, Nonresponse Bias, and Total Selection Bias
    Jan Mackeben, Institute for Employment Research
  • 6. On the Extent, Sources, and Consequences of Reporting Bias in Survey Wages
    Jakob Wegmann, University of Bonn
  • 7. Maximizing Linkage and Panel Consent in the First Wave of a Panel Survey – Applying Repeated Requests and Goal-Framing Theory
    Sebastian Hülle, Institute for Employment Research
• 03:30 p.m. IAB Data: A Brief Introduction
  Data and Data Access at the FDZ
  Ann-Christin Bächmann, Institute for Employment Research
• 03:45 p.m. IAB Data & GradAB Poster Session & Coffee Break
  IAB researchers present various data sources maintained and used at the IAB
• 04:30 p.m. Session III
  Wages Chair: Gesine Stephan
  • 8. The Evolution of the German Wage Distribution Before and After the Great Recession
    Carl Gergs, University College London
  • 9. Wage Progression and Cohort Inequality in the German Labor Market
    Eric Klemm, University College London
  • 10. Beggars Cannot be Choosers: The Effect of Labor Market Tightness on Hiring Standards, Wages and Hiring Costs
    Carolin Linckh, BIBB, ROA at Maastricht University
  • 11. Hiring Incentives, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages
    Filippo Passerini, University of Bologna
• 06:30 p.m.
  End of the first workshop day
• 07:30 p.m.
  Conference dinner at Estragon

Friday, 19 January 2024

• 09:00 a.m. Session IV
  AI & Technological Change Chair: Simon Janssen
  • 12. Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Digitalization
    Oliver Schlenker, University of Konstanz
  • 13. Structural Change, Occupational Choice, and Health Outcomes
    Courtney Brell, University College London
  • 14. Complementing or Substituting Labor? The Effect of AI Exposure on Wages, Employment, and New Work
    David Marguerit, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
  • 15. The Diffusion of Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Wages and Employment
    Myrielle Gonschor, RWI 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
• 11:15 a.m. Keynote Speech II
  • 16. Field of Study: Choices and Consequences
    Nadine Ketel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, IZA and CEPR
• 12:15 a.m.
  Lunch break
• 01:15 p.m. Session V
  Macroeconomic Perspectives Chair: Sena Coskun
  • 17. Effects of the German Tax-Benefit System on Labor Force Participation of Unemployed Welfare Benefit Recipients
    Fabian Böhme, ifo Institute
  • 18. Searching for Quality
    Timo Sauerbier, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 19. Wage Rigidities and Unemployment Rate Fluctuation
    Erik Dasenbrock, Free University of Berlin
• 02:45 p.m. Coffee break
• 03:00 p.m. Session VI
  Inequalities in the Labor Market Chair: Michael Oberfichtner
  • 20. What Drives the Decline in Female Labor Supply in Urban China
    Pengzhan Qian, Queen Mary University of London
  • 21. Expanding Remote Work Opportunities During the Pandemic
    and the Gender Commuting Gap
    Inga Heinze, RWI
  • 22. More Money, More Problems? The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications
    Clara Schäper, Berlin School of Economics
  • 23. The Silver Ceiling: Evidence from a Field Experiment of Ageism in the Spanish Online Recruitment Market
    Odra Quesada, University of the Basque Country
• 05:00 p.m.
  Coffee break
• 05:15 p.m. Session VII: Migrants and Refugees Chair: Kseniia Gatskova
  • 24. Skilled Labor Migration and Firm Performance: Evidence from Brexit
    Kai Fischer, Heinrich-Heine University
  • 25. The Gig Economy as a Stepping Stone for Refugees? Evidence from Administrative Data
    Felix Degenhardt, Berlin School of Economics
• 06:15 p.m.
  End of the second workshop day