Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 18h

via Koenfucius:
Which do workers value more—pay or perks?

New research looks into how people trade-off money versus other job benefits:

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/money-versus-perks-which-do-workers-value-more

orig https://mastodon.social/@Koenfucius/115334382178843623

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 19h

https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115334867451239738 4/4

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 19h

productive on average. Finally, interactions between firm productivity and labor supply are important, implying methodologies that rely on additive separability assumptions will likely produce biased decompositions of the immigrant-native pay gap."

#LaborMarkets #wages #discrimination

orig 3/4

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 19h

their MRPL on average, compared to 84% for natives

First, differences in labor supply curves between immigrants and natives contribute significantly to the pay gap. Second, immigrants tend to work at more productive firms, driven by their tendency to work in cities where firms are more 2/4

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 19h

#EconSky
Labour market power, firm productivity, and the immigrant-native pay gap https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:clefwp:327118&r=&r=lma

"Immigrants earn 16% less than native-born workers in Canada, and this pay gap is similar in many other high-income countries.

… immigrants earn 77% of 1/4

Labour market power, firm productivity, and theimmigrant-native pay gap

d.repec.org

1 1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 23h

not only for the technical refinement of NLP systems, but for ensuring that their real-world applications advance rather than hinder equity"

#jobtech #gender #discrimination #LaborEconomics #llm

orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115333782742120468 4/4

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 23h

language-specific sociolinguistic knowledge. Without rigorous attention to linguistic structure and social context, these tools risk perpetuating systemic biases—particularly in settings where semantic equivalence is masked by morphological variation. Addressing such challenges is crucial 3/4

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 23h

differences involved distinct occupational codes that sometimes crossed major #KldB group

.…gendered job titles—such as Autor vs. Autorin —often lead to different occupation codes, despite having identical meanings. Our findings underscore the importance of grounding #NLP innovations in 2/4

1 1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 23h

#EconSky
Mind the Gap: Gender-based Differences in Occupational Embeddings

https://aclanthology.org/2025.gebnlp-1.7.pdf

"Across five state-of-the-art multilingual models and seven reference-set configurations, up to 82% of gendered pairs received divergent Top-5 suggestions. These 1/4

83

aclanthology.org

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 1d

#LaborEconomics

orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115333758676417903 5/5

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 1d

the one hand, choosing a model with apparent good performance but that in turn shows a considerable gender gap may not only be ethically questionable, but it may also result in reputation and even legal consequences on the company responsible for it."

#llm #jobtech #discrimination 4/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 1d

exists in out-of-the-box pre-trained models, which are often used as the core for developing job title matching applications.

Finding a trade-off between model performance and #gender #bias is an important issue to address when developing and selecting job matching models for deployment. On 3/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 1d

English for this task, we have generated gender-annotated analogous corpora in four languages with grammatical gender, and addressed the evaluation of #genderBias as ranking comparison controlling for gender. Additionally, we establish baselines and confirm that this type of bias already 2/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 1d

#EconSky
Measuring Gender Bias in Job Title Matching for Grammatical Gender Languages

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13803

"… propose a methodology to measure gender bias in a high-impact #NLP application in the human resources domain: job title matching. Using an existing test set in 1/5

Measuring Gender Bias in Job Title Matching for Grammatical Gender Languages

Layout by CEURART v0.6.1

www.arxiv.org

1 1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

covered by these laws fail to include salary information."

#wages #LaborMarkets #oja

orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115305275202869853 2/2

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

#EconSky
Do Employers Comply with Pay Transparency Requirements in Job Postings? https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/10/do-employers-comply-with-pay-transparency-requirements-in-job-postings/

"… employers ignore #payTransparency requirements; roughly a quarter of job listings 1/2

Do Employers Comply with Pay Transparency Requirements in Job Postings? - Liberty Street Economics

A look at how many employers are following pay transparency requirements in U.S. job postings.

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

Poland.

… analysis shows that occupations that are most likely to experience #skillShortages also tend to experience relatively high rates of changes in skill requirements over time"

#LaborMarkets #skills

orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115305242383333006 3/3

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

occupations, ranging from 5.1% for ICT professionals to approximately zero in more elementary occupations. There is also substantial variation in the estimated incidences of potential skill shortages at member state level, ranging from over 10% in Luxembourg to under 1% in Estonia and 2/3

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

#EconSky
Developing a New European Indicator of Potential Skill Shortages https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18133&r=&r=eur

"… estimate that approximately 2% of job vacancies in the European Union are likely to experience skill shortages.

… there is substantial variation across 1/3

DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES

d.repec.org

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

as #AI driven #choiceArchitecture become more prominent in enterprises.

#BoundedRationality #AgenticAI

#AIGovernance #AiEthics #accountability

orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115305204622443110 5/5

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

expand their authority while maintaining oversight.

Leaders must become accountable not just for individual decisions, but for the quality of the ICA systems they create.

The article highlights the need to proactively address decision rights, power structures, and #decisionMaking practices 4/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

capabilities of ICAs redefine authority and oversight.

To address the risks of the "learning-authority dilemma" where ICAs exceed their granted decision rights, organizations need to establish dynamic governance frameworks that systematically evaluate ICA capabilities and intentionally 3/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

practices are allocated and structured.

As ICAs become more sophisticated, there are three key shifts occurring: power flows to the human and machine architects of these choice environments, network effects amplify the decision intelligence of ICAs, and the real-time optimization 2/5

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 6d

#EconSky
The Great Power Shift: How Intelligent Choice Architectures Rewrite Decision Rights

https://archive.ph/7vnir

The increasing use of AI-powered "intelligent choice architectures" (ICAs) in organizations is transforming how #decisionRights, #power dynamics, and decision-making 1/5

archive.ph

1

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · 7d

via The Funny Pages:
New Comic Found: Dark Side of the Horse - 2025-09-30 https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2025/09/30

#comicstrip #comic #darksideofthehorse

orig https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/115294569587604425