KAILING SHEN

About

Kailing Shen is an Associate Professor at the Research School of Economics of the Australian National University. She joined ANU in 2015. Before that, she was with Xiamen University in China. Kailing has also been a research fellow of IZA since 2007 and fellow of the Global Labor Organization since 2017. Kailing received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Her doctoral thesis examines the impact of unemployment insurance on employment/job stability and reemployment wages dynamics using a multi-spell multi-state duration model. Her research has always been focusing on the empirical analysis of the labor market, especially using data from online job board. So far, her research has covered a wide spectrum of issues, including job search and matching, unemployment insurance, gender discrimination, income inequality, education, migration and aging.

Work

The Australian National University

Australia

Australian National University
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Associate Professor

Australia

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Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer

Australia

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Xiamen University
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Associate Professor

China

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Xiamen University
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Assistant Professor

China

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China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges
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Program Officer

China

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Education

University of British Columbia
Canada

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PhD

University of British Columbia
Canada

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MA

University of International Business and Economics
China

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BA in Economics

Publications

LABOR FORCE TRANSITION DYNAMICS

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Research in Labor Economics

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book-chapter

What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

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American Economic Review

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Gender Discrimination

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Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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Gender Discrimination

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Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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book-chapter

What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

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NBER Working Papers, American Economic Review (Conditional accepted)

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The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Requests

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Journal of Human Resources

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The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Requests →

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Journal of Human Resources

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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Facts from a Chinese Job Board

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Journal of Development Economics

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Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process

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Journal of Development Economics

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Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia using a reweighting-estimation-transformation approach

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Australian Journal of Labour Economics

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Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China

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Frontiers of Economics in China

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Aging and migration

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Frontiers of Economics in China

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Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board

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IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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Do employers prefer migrant workers? Evidence from a Chinese job board

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IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Gender discrimination in job ads

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Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988–2009

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Journal of Comparative Economics

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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988-2009

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Journal of Comparative Economics

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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board

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Research in Labor Economics

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Do chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? evidence from an internet job board

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Labor Market Issues in China

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