Saturday 7 October

8:45-9:00

Opening   remarks: Zhong Zhao & Klaus F. Zimmermann

Keynote:

09:00-10:00

Junsen   Zhang (Zhejiang   University and GLO)

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00

Qian Weng (Renmin University of China   and GLO)

How Many Others Apply for the Jobs I Am   Applying for? The Effect of Perceived Labor Market Competition on Job Search

11:00-11:30

Lei    Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Understanding   Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018

11:30-12:00

Xianqiang Zou (Renmin University of China and   GLO)

Robots   as Guardians: Industrial Automation and Workplace Safety in China

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Chair: Liqiu   Zhao (Renmin University of China and   GLO)

Keynote：

13:30-14:30

Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT   and GLO)

14:30-15:00

Sen   Xue (Jinan   University and GLO)

Building   Hope for the Poor

15:00-15:30

Xuejing Zuo (Fudan University and GLO)

Liberalization to Inequality: How   China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reform Restructures the Urban Labor Market

15:30-16:00

Haochen Zhang (Peking University)

Marketization, Family Risk Sharing, and   Entrepreneurship

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Chair: Feng Hu (University of Science and Technology   Beijing)

16:30-17:00

Feng   Hu (University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Does   gender shape how personal connections affect your career?

17:00-17:30

Max   Tani (University of New South Wales, IZA   and GLO)

A   Western-style labour market in formation? Opportunity cost   and teaching career choices by gender in China

17:30-18:00

Wei   Luo (Jinan University)

Shaping   Gender Role Attitudes: The Influence of Parental Occupational Differences on   the Next Generation

18:00

Conference Dinner (Invitation   Only)

Sunday   8 October

Chair:   Minghai Zhou (Zhejiang   University and GLO)

08:30-09:00

Hang   Zou (Jinan University)

Online   Education: How Interactive Teacher Intervention Improves Students’ Academic   Achievements and Noncognitive Abilities?

09:00-09:30  

Minghai Zhou (Zhejiang   University and GLO)

Hukou   Identity, Timing of Arrival, and Peer Effects of Migrant Students in the   Classroom: Evidence from China’s Middle Schools

09:30-10:00

Yu   Bai (Minzu University of China and GLO)

Impacts   of Single-parent Families on Student Educational Outcomes, Non-Cognitive   Skills, and Values in Rural China

10:00-10:30

Coffee   Break

Chair:   Minqiang (Kent) Zhao (Xiamen University)

10:30-11:00

Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University and GLO)

Can   Migration Barriers Save Labor Productivity in a   Developing Country?

11:00-11:30

Sophie   Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics)

China’s   “Later, Longer, Fewer”   Campaign and Inter-generational Support of Elderly Parents

11:30-12:00

Minqiang (Kent) Zhao (Xiamen University)

China’s   Structural Transformation and Mobility Barriers

12:30-14:00

Lunch