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On its own or together with other institutions the IAB organizes numerous meetings for the scientific community and for professionals in the public sphere, especially for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS).

Workshop “Vacancies, Hiring and Matching”

International workshop

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to invite submissions for a workshop on “Vacancies, Hiring and Matching” in Nuremberg on October 1 and 2, 2019. In 2019, the IAB celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German Job Vacancy Survey, which has been collecting representative data
on vacancies and hiring processes since 1989. Given that the nature of employers’ vacancy posting
and hiring processes is an important, but still under-researched topic, the workshop’s objective is to
discuss recent developments in the following research areas:

  • Empirical research based on employer-level and/or vacancy data (also online vacancy data)
  • Macroeconomic work dealing with vacancies, labor market flows or the matching process
  • Other empirical studies on labor demand and the hiring of workers
  • Methodological work discussing employer-level data collection and/or the measurement of vacancies and labor flows

Date

1.10.2019 - 2.10.2019

Venue

Congress Centre of the Federal Employment Agency (BA)
Regensburger Strasse 104
Room 168, 164 and 160
90478 Nürnberg
Germany

Keynote speakers

  • Leo Kaas (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
  • Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich)

Scientific committee

  • Mario Bossler
  • Hermann Gartner
  • Nicole Gürtzgen
  • Leo Kaas
  • Christian Merkl

(alle IAB)

Organisation

  • Mario Bossler
  • Hermann Gartner
  • Nicole Gürtzgen
  • Alexander Kubis
  • Martina Rebien

(alle IAB)

Programme

TUESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2019

  • 12:00 p.m: Registration and Lunch
  • 12:50 p.m: Welcome (Room 168)
  • 1:00 p.m: Keynote (Room 168): Recruiting and Labor Market Matching
    Leo Kaas
  • 2:00 p.m: Session 1a (Room 160): Recruitment Channels & Search Frictions
    • Do Intermediaries Reduce Search Frictions?
      Christian Holzner, Makoto Watanabe
    • Formal Search and Referrals from a Firm’s Perspective
      Martina Rebien, Michael Stops, Anna Zaharieva
  • 2:00 p.m: Session 1b (Room 164): Hiring and Institutions
    • The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection
      Sebastian Butschek, Jan Sauermann
    • Do Works Councils Deter the Hiring Process? Mario Bossler, Nicole Gürtzgen
  • 3:20 p.m: Coffee break
  • 3:50 p.m: Session 2a (Room 160): Labour Demand and Worker Flows
    • The Demand for Labor by Skills and Tasks: Scale Effects and Job Polarization
      Andreas Peichl, Martin Popp
    • The Link Between Labor Market Dynamism and Job Polarization
      Christoph Hedtrich
    • Do Active Labour Market Policies for Welfare Recipients in Germany Raise their Regional Outflow into Work?
      Rüdiger Wapler, Katja Wolf, Joachim Wolff
  • 3:50: p.m: Session 2b (Room 164): Matching and Labour Market Reforms
    • Decomposing Variations in Labor Market Mismatch
      Anja Bauer, Enzo Weber
    • Public Employment Agency and Job Matching Efficiency – A New Perspective Using Establishment Level Data
      Kornelius Kraft, Alexander Lammers
    • Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment – A Macroeconomic Evaluation Brigitte Hochmuth, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Hermann Gartner
  • 5:50 p.m: End of the Conference-Day
  • 7:00 p.m: Conference Dinner: Ristorante Ciao, Schweiggerstr. 28 , 90478 Nuremberg

WEDNESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2019

  • 9:00 a.m: Keynote (Room 168): Vacancy durations and entry wages: Evidence from linked data
    Josef Zweimüller
  • 10:00 a.m: Coffee break
  • 10:30 a.m: Data Session (Room 168)
    • IAB-Job Vacancy Survey
      Ben Kriechel, Economix
    • Official Vacancy Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency
      Jörg Szameitat, Federal Employment Agency
  • 11:50 a.m: Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m: Session 3a (Room 160): Recruitment Channels and Match Quality
    • Immigration, Social Networks and Occupational Mismatch
      Sevak Alaverdyan, Anna Zaharieva
    • Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?
      Nicole Gürtzgen, Ben Lochner, Laura Pohlan, Gerard van den Berg
  • 1:00 p.m: Session 3b (Room 164): Recruitment Durations
    • Duration Dependence and Returns to Scale in Job Vacancies in Germany, 2000–2013
      Steven Davis, Andreas Moczall, Christof Röttger, Anja Warning, Enzo Weber
    • Inspecting the Relation of Search Costs and Search Durations for New Hires
      Francesco Carbonero, Hermann Gartner
  • 2:20 p.m. Coffee break
  • 2:40 p.m: Session 4a (Room 160): Search and Matching Models
    • Firm Dynamics, On-the-Job Search and Labor Market Fluctuations
      Michael Elsby, Axel Gottfries
    • The Equilibrium Effects of Vacancy Referrals
      Gerard van den Berg, Hanno Foerster
  • 2:40 p.m: Session 4b (Room 164): Occupations and Skill Requirements
    • Explaining Recruiting Situations with Occupation-Specific Information
      Tobias Maier, Stefanie Steeg
    • When Do Employers Accept Occupational Mismatches? – A Vignette Study on German Employers’ Selection Behavior Basha Vicari, Martin Abraham
  • 4:00 p.m. End of the Conference