CRIW Pre-Conference: The Changing Nature of Work

Susan N. Houseman, Anne Polivka, and Ayşegül Şahin, Organizers

July 17, 2024

Charles B

Format: 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 17
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am
Welcome and Conference Overview
9:00 am

Understanding Self-Employment Trajectories over the Life Course in the United States
Discussant: Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
9:30 am

Understanding the Online Platform Based “Gig” Workforce in the U.S.: Evidence from the Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey
Discussant: Mary Burke, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
10:00 am

The Changing Nature of Work: What can we learn from Time Use Diaries?
Discussant: Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2023 (slides)
Discussant: Mike Zabek, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
11:15 am

The Rise of the Contract Workforce in U.S. Manufacturing
Discussant: Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
11:45 am

How Do Workers Think About The Costs and Benefits of Freelance Work? New Evidence From a Survey Experiment (slides)
Discussant: Gizem Koşar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

What Makes Work from Home Work? Evidence on Telework and Worker Tasks
Discussant: Lisa Ho, Yale University
1:45 pm

The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies: Evidence from US Labor Markets (slides)
Discussant: Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm

The What and How of Measuring Digital Platform Work
Discussant: Vincent Hardy, Statistics Canada
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Business Owners and the Self-Employed: Thirty-Three Million (and Counting!)
Discussant: Jay Stewart, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
3:30 pm

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Employers’ Requirements on New Employees: Experiences on Changes in Recruitment Processes in the German Labor Market
4:00 pm

Tapping Business and Household Surveys to Sharpen Our View of Work from Home (slides)
Discussant: Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
4:30 pm

Local Variation in Onsite Work during the Pandemic and its Aftermath (slides)
Discussant: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5:00 pm
Adjourn