Kailing Shen

Research Fellow

Australian National University

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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 appointed as research fellow of IZA since 2007.

Kailing received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Her doctoral thesis examines the impact of unemployment insurance on employment stability and reemployment wages using a multi-spell multi-state duration model.

Her research focuses on empirical analysis of the labor market. So far, her research has covered a wide spectrum of issues, including unemployment insurance, job search and matching, discrimination, gender differentials, income inequality, education, migration, aging as well as within-household behavior. For the last ten years, she has mainly been working with online job board data.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16373
Labor Force Transition Dynamics: Unemployment Rate or Job Posting Counts?
Kailing Shen, Yanran Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14897
Gender Discrimination
Kailing Shen
published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14618
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (4), 1013 - 1048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13640
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
Kailing Shen, Bledi Taska
published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 153-171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12022
Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China
Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen, Shuo Zhang
published as 'Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Facts from a Chinese Job Board in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 147, 201531.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9891
Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards
Miguel Delgado Helleseter, Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
published as 'The Age Twist in Employers' Gender Requests: Evidence from Four Job Boards' in :Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 428-469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8351
Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, Kailing Shen
published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8289
Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
published as 'Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4(2), 2015,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6848
Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Kailing Shen, Peter J. Kuhn
published in: Corrado Giulietti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Research in Labor Economics, vol 37, Labor Market Issues in China, Emerald, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5195
Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 287-336
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