Hong Kong Labor Symposium 2025

The Hong Kong Labor Symposium 2025 is scheduled to take place from June 6 (Friday) to June 7 (Saturday) 2025 at KK1121.

June 6 (Friday)
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Hanming Fang
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30	Fertility
	Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave-Taking: Evidence from Japan Hitoshi Shigeoka, University of Tokyo
	Workplace Norms and Fertility Sungha Myong, Singapore Management University
	Social Institutions and Low Birth Rates Yutao Wang, Singapore Management University
	The Motherhood Effect on Earnings amid Declining Fertility: Evidence from Korea Jisoo Hwang, Seoul National University
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Education and Parental Impact
	Starting Strong: Medium- and Longer-run Benefits of Mexico’s Universal Preschool Mandate Weilong Zhang, University of Cambridge
	Exporting Education or Importing Labor? The Labor Market Impacts of International Students Chen Liu, National University of Singapore
	Effects of Parental Death on Youth Outcomes Ning Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Labor Supply, Productivity, and Match Quality
	Measuring Labor Market Match Quality with Large Language Models Yi Chen, ShanghaiTech University
	Habit Formation in Labor Supply Yogita Shamdasani, National University of Singapore
	Non-Monotonic Employment Effects of Minimum Wages in Monopsonistic Labour Markets Kevin Devereux, Chinese University of Hong Kong
	Managing Through Toxicity: How Words Affect Productivity and Retention Jinci Liu, Stockholm University

June 7 (Saturday)
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Victor Lavy
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30	Social preferences
	Institutional Changes and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Economy Andrew Griffen, University of Tokyo
	Wages, taxes, and labor supply elasticities: The role of social preferences Pinchuan Ong, National University of Singapore
	Managers And The Cultural Transmission Of Gender Norms Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
	Quitting Behavior of Gig Manufacturing Workers: Virtual and Offline Peer Effects Dandan Zhang, Peking University
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch

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