New research from the GLO network free to access: 

18 Discussion Papers from November 2024 on migration, gender issues, higher education, racial segregation, female employment and childbirth, environmental preferences, loneliness, labor market matching, income and fertility in USA, job market stars, teaching in mathematics, among others. 

New GLO Research DPs November 2024

1530 Do Migrants Pay Their Way? A Net Fiscal Analysis for Germany – Download PDF
by Sallam, Hend & Christl, Michael

1529  Gender Prescribed Occupations and the Wage Gap – Download PDF
by Broso, Matteo & Gallice, Andrea & Muratori, Caterina

1528 Higher Education Subsidies and the Universal Insurance against a Short Life – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory

1527 School Racial Segregation and Late-Life Cognition – Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Wang, Yi & Gill, Thomas M. & Chen, Xi

1526 A wider look at female employment and childbirth in Italy – Download PDF
by Mussida, Chiara & Sciulli, Dario

1525 Environment vs. economic growth: Do environmental preferences translate into support for Green parties? – Download PDF
by Otrachshenko, Vladimir & Popova, Olga

1524 Does Performance Pay Increase the Risk of Worker Loneliness? – Download PDF
by Baktash, Mehrzad B.

1523 On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital – Download PDF
by Jerbashian, Vahagn

1522 What women want. Gender-based norms and cognition in STEM occupational choices – Download PDF
by Kovacic, Matija & Orso, Cristina Elisa

1521 The Effects of COVID-19 on Labour Market Matching in Austria: A Regional and Sectoral Perspective – Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & Kiss, Aron & Nagl, Wolfgang

1520 Out-of-field teaching and instructional practices in Years 7-10 mathematics classes in Australia: evidence from TALIS 2018 – Download PDF
by Shah, Chandra & Watt, Helen M. G. & Richardson, Paul W.

1519 Did Program Support for the Poorest Areas Work? Evidence from Rural Vietnam – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Deininger, Klaus & Cuong Viet Nguyen

1518 Female-Specific Labor Regulation and Employment: Historical Evidence from the United States – Download PDF
by Haddad, Joanne & Kattan, Lamis

1517 Property Inheritance Rights and Female Political Participation in India – Download PDF
by Nandwani, Bharti & Roychowdhury, Punarjit

1516 Income and Fertility of Female College Graduates in the United States – Download PDF
by Cai, Zhengyu & Winters, John V.

1515 Wage Bargaining and Capital Accumulation: A Dynamic Version of the Monopoly Union Model – Download PDF
by Guerrazzi, Marco

1514 Job Market Stars – Download PDF
by Brodeur, Abel & Kattan, Lamis & Musumeci, Marco

1513 Out-of-field teaching in mathematics at Year 10 in New South Wales: evidence from PISA 2015 – Download PDF
by Shah, Chandra & Watt, Helen M. G. & Richardson, Paul W.

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New research from the GLO network free to access: 

13 Discussion Papers from October 2024 on Immigrants in the Antebellum USA, family planning and ethnic heritage in Africa, mass shootings and mental health, Covid-19,  inequality in Europe, intimate partner violence, student teamwork, Weberian sprit of capitalism, minimum wages in China, grandfathers and grandsons, land-redistribution, tourism, discrimination, among others. 

New GLO Research DPs October 2024

1512 The Labor Market Attainment of Immigrants in the Antebellum United States – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda

1511 Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa – Download PDF
by Bertocchi, Graziella & Dimico, Arcangelo & Falco, Chiara

1510 In the wrong place at the wrong time: The impact of mass shooting exposure on mental health – Download PDF
by Ubaldi, Michele & Picchio, Matteo

1509 The rising tide lifts all boats? Income support measures for employees and self-employed during the COVID-19 pandemic – Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & De Poli, Silvia & Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė, Viginta

1508 An extended view on inequality and redistribution in the European Union – The role of indirect taxation and in-kind benefits – Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & De Poli, Silvia & Köppl-Turyna, Monika

1507 Intimate partner violence during lockdown in Tuscany, Italy: economic shock or confinement-related stressors? – Download PDF
by Bettio, Francesca & Tavares, Fernando Flores & Ticci, Elisa

1506 The effectiveness of teamwork for student academic outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment – Download PDF
by Banerjee, Ritwik & Blunch, Niels-Hugo & Cassese, Daniele & Gupta, Nabanita Datta & Pin, Paolo

1505 “Blessed are the Poor”: The Weberian Spirit of Capitalism Under Experimental Scrutiny – Download PDF
by Fazio, Andrea & Reggiani, Tommaso & Santori, Paolo

1504 Local labour concentration moderates the disemployment effects of minimum wages in China – Download PDF
by Martins, Pedro S. & Dai, Li & Duan, Wenjing

1503 Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China – Download PDF
by Yang, Jinyang & Chen, Xi

1502 Land-redistribution and coercive violence – Download PDF
by Gudibande, Rohan & Nandy, Abhinaba & Srivastava, Vatsalya

1501 Tourism Boom, Housing Doom: Excessive Tourism And International Emigration – Download PDF
by Mikulić, Josip & Vitezić, Vanja & Srhoj, Stjepan & Kuliš, Zvonimir

1500 Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England’s Black Communities Amid the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

14 Discussion Papers from September 2024 on employee representation, China, gender issues, COVID-19, social vulnerability, intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills, real-time happiness index, health workforce performance, North-South convergence, women in Afghanistan, subjective well-being, network abroad and culture, workplace injuries, intimate partner violence, among other issues.

New GLO Research DPs September 2024

1499 Organisational justice, employee representation, and firm performance – Download PDF
by Mohrenweiser, Jens & Pfeifer, Christian

1498 China’s direct investment in Indo-Pacific: A quantitative assessment – Download PDF
by Bajo-Rubio, Oscar & Zhou, Jing

1497 The benefits of considering gender in economic development – Download PDF
by Ganguly, Sujata & Nikolova, Elena

1496 The Returns to Education over time and the Effect of COVID-19 – Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Rivera-Olvera, Angelica

1495 Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1494 Free Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills in Rural China – Download PDF
by Zhang, Zheyuan & Xu, Hui & Liu, Ruilin & Zhao, Zhong

1493 Development and validation of a real-time happiness index using Google TrendsTM – Download PDF
by Greyling, Talita & Rossouw, Stephanié

1492 Dimensions of health workforce performance: a scoping review – Download PDF
by Fabiano, Gianluca & Bustamante, Juana Paola & Codjia, Laurence & Siyam, Amani & Zurn, Pascal

1491 The agents of industrial policy and the North-South convergence: State-owned enterprises in an international-trade macroeconomic ABM – Download PDF
by Fanti, Lucrezia & Pereira, Marcelo C. & Virgillito, Maria Enrica

1490 The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan: From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses – Download PDF
by Najam, Rafiuddin & Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Kattan, Raja Bentaouet

1489 Mitigating Life Challenges to Subjective Well-being through Civic Engagement: Insights from a Global Perspective – Download PDF
by Wu, Fengyu & Nugent, Jeffrey B.

1488 Network Abroad and Culture: Global Individual-Level Evidence – Download PDF
by Turati, Riccardo

1487 High temperatures and workplace injuries – Download PDF
by Picchio, Matteo & van Ours, Jan C.

1486 Attitudes and norms about intimate partner violence: What makes women more impressionable? – Download PDF
by Dhamija, Gaurav & Mookerjee, Mehreen & Ojha, Manini & Roy, Sanket

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

20 Discussion Papers from August 2024 on global warming, overqualification, culture, happiness and emotions, working from home, religiosity, poverty, brain and ability drain, work meaningfulness, care burden, household finances, AI, returns to schooling, attitudes toward immigrants, wage cyclicality, sickness benefits and gender, depression among the elderly, among other issues.

New GLO Research DPs August 2024

1485 The Productivity Impact of Global Warming: Firm-Level Evidence for Europe – Download PDF
by Gagliardi, Nicola & Grinza, Elena & Rycx, François

1484 The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt – Download PDF
by Fakih, Ali & Lizzaik, Zeina

1483 Reconciling the individual and societal level in comparative cultural analysis: An archetypal analysis of values and norms across 76 countries – Download PDF
by de Wit, Juliette & Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd

1482 Vaccination uptake, happiness and emotions: using a supervised machine learning approach – Download PDF
by Greyling, Talita & Rossouw, Stephanié

1481 Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes? – Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe & Rienzo, Cinzia

1480 That Old Time Religion: Christianity and Black Economic Progress After Reconstruction – Download PDF
by Petach, Luke

1479 Land Access and Poverty among Agricultural Households in Nigeria – Download PDF
by Odozi, John Chiwuzulum & Uwaifo Oyel, Ruth

1478 Benefits and Costs of Brain and Ability Drain – Download PDF
by Schiff, Maurice

1477 Population Growth and the Tragedy of the Commons: Can Trade Prevent Natural Resource and Welfare Collapse? – Download PDF
by Schiff, Maurice

1476 Work Meaningfulness and Effort – Download PDF
by Cnossen, Femke & Nikolova, Milena

1475 Trapped in the care burden: occupational downward mobility of Italian couples after childbirth – Download PDF
by Barbieri, Teresa & Bavaro, Michele & Cirillo, Valeria

1474 Daughters, Savings and Household Finances – Download PDF
by Wen, Xin & Cheng, Zhiming & Tani, Massimiliano

1473 The KSTE+I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions – Download PDF
by D’Al, Francesco & Santarelli, Enrico & Vivarelli, Marco

1472 Quality and Accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Healthcare in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC): A Simulated Patient Study using ChatGPT – Download PDF
by Si, Yafei & Yang, Yuyi & Wang, Xi & An, Ruopeng & Zu, Jiaqi & Chen, Xi & Fan, Xiaojing & Gong, Sen

1471 Driver of returns to schooling: Education-related policies or family background? – Download PDF
by Soon, Jan-Jan & Lim, Hock-Eam

1470 Weight, Stigma, and Attitudes toward Immigrants – Download PDF
by Fazio, Andrea & Giaccherini, Matilde

1469 Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions – Download PDF
by Pereira, João & Ramos, Raul & Martins, Pedro S.

1468 What is (behind) the gender gap in sickness benefits? Evidence from administrative data – Download PDF
by Gonçalves, Judite & Rocha-Gomes, João & Amorim-Lopes, Mário & Martins, Pedro S.

1467 AI as a new emerging technological paradigm: evidence from global patenting – Download PDF
by Damioli, Giacomo & Van Roy, Vincent & Vertesy, Daniel & Vivarelli, Marco

1466 Social Identity and Depression Among the Elderly: Evidence from India – Download PDF
by Roychowdhury, Punarjit

New research from the GLO network free to access: 14 Discussion Papers from July 2024 on intimate partner violence, climate change, air pollution, inflation attention, wellbeing and migration, criminal activity, wage premia, poverty indicators, unions, overeducation, narcotics enforcement, spousal job loss, and #metoo, among other issues.

New Research DPs July 2024

1465 Natural disasters and acceptance of intimate partner violence: The global evidence – Download PDF
by Mavisakalyan, Astghik & Otrachshenko, Vladimir & Popova, Olga

1464 The impacts of climate change and air pollution on children’s education outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Do, Minh N. N. & Cuong Viet Nguyen

1463 The Rockets and Feathers of Inflation Attention – Download PDF
by Korenok, Oleg & Munro, David

1462 Place of Birth and Cognitive Function among Older Americans: Findings from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol – Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Chen, Xi

1461 Is immigration good for Europe? Long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being – Download PDF
by Kelsey J. O’Connor

1460 Young adult job loss and criminal activity – Download PDF
by Jolly, Nicholas A. & Propp, Margaret H.

1459 Background wage premia, beyond education: firm sorting and unobserved abilities – Download PDF
by Bonacini, Luca & Patriarca, Fabrizio & Santoni, Edoardo

1458 Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Kilic, Talip & Abanokova, Kseniya & Carletto, Calogero

1457 Unions and Collective Bargaining: The Influence on Wages, Employment and Firm Survival – Download PDF
by Brändle, Tobias

1456 Returns to Education and Overeducation Risk: A Dynamic Model – Download PDF
by Navarini, Lorenzo & Verhaest, Dieter

1455 Identifying the General Equilibrium Effects of Narcotics Enforcement – Download PDF
by Porreca, Zachary

1454 Temporal Changes to the Added Worker Effect Associated with Spousal Job Loss – Download PDF
by Connolly, Laura E. & Jolly, Nicholas A

1453 The #MeToo Movement and Judges’ Gender Gap in Decisions – Download PDF
by Cai, Xiqian & Chen, Shuai & Cheng, Zhengquan

1452 Should I Train or Should I Go? Human Resources, Human Capital, Turnover and Service Quality – Download PDF
by Georgiadis, Andreas & Kornelakis, Andreas

New research from the GLO network free to access: 12 Discussion Papers on Russian migrants, dementia risks, domestic violence, new farming practices, natural disasters, morality of markets, health insurance, overeducation, mental health, work orientation, food security, and overeducation, among other issues.

New Research DPs May 2024

1438 Beyond the Stigma of War: Russian Migrants in Kazakhstan’s Labour Market – Download PDF
by Abdulla, Kanat & Mourelatos, Evangelos

1437 Children’s Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk – Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Yin, Xuecheng & Levy, Becca R. & Yuan, Yue & Chen, Xi

1436 Her Job, her Safety? Domestic Violence and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia – Download PDF
by Bedaso, Fenet Jima

1435 Access to Information and Adoption of New Farming Practices: A Spatial Analysis – Download PDF
by Kulshreshtha, Shobhit

1434 Natural disasters and the demand for health insurance – Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Mitrou, Francis

1433 The Morality of Markets. A Comment – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory & Stevens, Nicolas

1432 Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous – Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Le, Huong Thu & Blyth, Christopher & Connelly, Luke & Mitrou, Francis

1431 The Returns to Education and the Wage Effect from Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago: A Pseudo-Panel Approach – Download PDF
by Doon, Roshnie & Scicchitano, Sergio

1430 COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China – Download PDF
by Zhang, Yunting & Zhao, Jin & Yu, Zhangsheng & Wang, Guanghai & Zhang, Jun & Jiang, Fan & Wu, Saishuang & Zhang, Yue & Zhang, Donglan & Chen, Xi

1429 Loud or quiet quitting? The influence of work orientations on effort and turnover – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena

1428 Contract Farming and Food Security in Developing Economies: A Framework Model for Spillover Impact – Download PDF
by Das, Gouranga G. & Bhattacharya, Ranajoy

1427 Immigrant overeducation across two generations: The role of gender and part-time work – Download PDF
by Pineda-Hernández, Kevin & Rycx, François & Volral, Mélanie

New research from the GLO network free to access: 11 Discussion Papers on artificial intelligence, migration, refugees, gender, inclusive labor markets, stoicism, elderly parents, dementia, hockey, China, among others.

New Research DPs March 2024

1409 “Bad Jobs” in “Good Industries”: The Precarious Employment of Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing Sector of the Emilia-Romagna Region – Download PDF
by Landini, Fabio & Rinaldi, Riccardo

1408 Artificial Intelligence Capital and Employment Prospects – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1407 Breaking the Divide: Can Public Spending on Social Infrastructure Boost Female Employment in Italy? – Download PDF
by Reljic, Jelena & Zezza, Francesco

1406 Fiscal policy instruments for inclusive labour markets: A review – Download PDF
by Ernst, Ekkehard & Merola, Rossana & Reljic, Jelena

1405 Stoicism and the Tragedy of the Commons – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory

1404 Can AI Bridge the Gender Gap in Competitiveness? – Download PDF
by Mourelatos, Evangelos & Zervas, Panagiotis & Lagios, Dimitris & Tzimas, Giannis

1403 How China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” Campaign Extends Life Expectancy: A Study of Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents – Download PDF
by Bansak, Cynthia & Dziadula, Eva & Wang, Sophie Xuefei

1402 Healthcare Quality and Dementia Risk – Download PDF
by Aravena, José M. & Chen, Xi & Levy, Becca R.

1401 Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League – Download PDF
by Fumarco, Luca & Longley, Neil & Palermo, Alberto & Rossi, Giambattista

1400 Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden – Download PDF
by Baum, Christopher F. & Lööf, Hans & Stephan, Andreas & Zimmermann, Klaus F.

1399 The Wage Effects of Polytechnic Degrees: Evidence from the 1999 China Higher Education Expansion – Download PDF
by Dai, Li & Martins, Pedro S.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 19 Discussion Papers on issues including Covid & wage polarization, vaccination hesitation, robots & employment, gender gaps, poverty data, feudal human capital, ethnic identity, Hukou status, climate emergency policies, working from home, mental illness, among others.

New Research DPs February 2024

1398 COVID 19 and Wage Polarization: A task based approach – Download PDF
by Schettino, Francesco & Scicchitano, Sergio & Suppa, Domenico

1397 The Lasting Impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitation among African Americans – Download PDF
by Hou, Xiaolong & Jiao, Yang & Shen, Leilei & Chen, Zhuo

1396 The impact of COVID-19 on health workers: A health labor market perspective to improve response – Download PDF
by Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola & Cometto, Giorgio & Diallo, Khassoum & Zurn, Pascal & Campbell, Jim

1395 Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis – Download PDF
by Guarascio, Dario & Piccirillo, Alessandro & Reljic, Jelena

1394 From A to Z: Effects of a 2nd-grade reading intervention program for struggling readers – Download PDF
by Lopes, João & Martins, Pedro S. & Oliveira, Célia & Ferreira, João & Oliveira, João Tiago & Crato, Nuno

1393 Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Ethiopia – Download PDF
by Bedaso, Fenet Jima

1392 Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh & Kilic, Talip & Hlasny, Vladimir & Abanokova, Kseniya & Carletto, Calogero

1391 Bride Kidnapping and Informal Governance Institutions – Download PDF
by Porreca, Zachary

1390 The Entrepreneur’s Cognitive and Behavioral Journey: Understanding Heuristics and Bias under Risk and Uncertainty – Download PDF
by Cucchiarini, Veronica & Scicchitano, Sergio & Viale, Riccardo

1389 The long-lasting effect of feudal human capital: Insights from Vietnam – Download PDF
by Hoang, Trung Xuan & Nguyen, Cuong Viet

1388 Family background, education, and earnings: The limited value of “test-score transmission” – Download PDF
by Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi & Justman, Moshe

1387 Ethnic identity and educational outcomes – Download PDF
by Randazzo, Teresa & Piracha, Matloob

1386 Hukou status and children’s education in China – Download PDF
by Sun, Yue & Zhao, Liqiu & Zhao, Zhong

1385 Weather Conditions and Physical Activity: Insights for Climate Emergency Policies – Download PDF
by Belloc, Ignacio & Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto

1384 Childhood Circumstances and Health of American and Chinese Older Adults: A Machine Learning Evaluation of Inequality of Opportunity in Health – Download PDF
by Huo, Shutong & Feng, Derek & Gill, Thomas M. & Chen, Xi

1383 Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Pullinger, John & Serajuddin, Umar & Stacy, Brian

1382 Working from home and job satisfaction: The role of gender and personality traits – Download PDF
by Esposito, P. & Mendolia, S. & Scicchitano, S. & Tealdi, C.

1381 Exploring the Spillover Effects of Internally Displaced Settlements on the Wellbeing of Children of the Locales – Download PDF
by Uchenna, Efobi & Joseph, Ajefu

1380 Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China – Download PDF
by Wang, Tianyu & Sun, Ruochen & Sindelar, Jody L. & Chen, Xi

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion.  Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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New research from the GLO network free to access: 15 Discussion Papers on issues including returns to schooling, digital platforms-military nexus, poverty in the Arab region, food insecurity, Ukraine, innovation and globalization, freedom of speech, healthy aging, high temperatures and work, inequality, and many more….. by experts from around the globe.

1365 Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R.

1364 Blurring boundaries: An analysis of the digital platforms-military nexus – Download PDF
by Coveri, Andrea & Cozza, Claudio & Guarascio, Dario

1363 Female headship and poverty in the Arab region: Analysis of trends and dynamics based on a new typology – Download PDF
by AlAzzawi, Shireen & Dang, Hai-Anh & Hlasny, Vladimir & Abanokova, Kseniya & Behrman, Jere

1362 Health Inequalities Among People Experiencing Food Insecurity. An Intersectional Approach – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1361 Human values and selection into supervisory positions: Evidence from nine European countries – Download PDF
by Hazans, Mihails & Masso, Jaan & Maurseth, Per Botolf

1360 Impact of TB Epidemic on Worker and Firm Productivity: Regional Perspective from Ukraine – Download PDF
by Nizalova, Olena & Shepotylo, Oleksandr

1359 The Gendered Impact of In-State Tuition Policies on Undocumented Immigrants’ College Enrollment, Graduation, and Employment – Download PDF
by Averett, Susan & Bansak, Cynthia & Condon, Grace & Dziadula, Eva

1358 Does international trade promote economic growth? Europe, 19th and 20th centuries – Download PDF
by Bajo-Rubio, Oscar & Ramos-Herrera, María del Carmen

1357 Innovation and Globalization: Benefactors or Barriers to Inclusive Growth? – Download PDF
by Duong, Khanh & Nguyen Phuc Van

1356 Rethinking the Inequality-Growth Nexus: Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Challenges – Download PDF
by Duong, Khanh & Nguyen Phuc Van

1355 Echoes of the Past: The Enduring Impact of Communism on Contemporary Freedom of Speech Values – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena & Popova, Olga

1354 Household Wealth and Body Mass Index: Towards a Healthy Ageing? – Download PDF
by Belloc, Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto & Velilla, Jorge

1353 The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities – Download PDF
by Picchio, Matteo & Ours, Jan C. van

1352 Inequality is not always a political choice, but reducing it (to an optimal degree) is – Download PDF
by Khanh Duong & Nguyen Phuc Van

1351 Price Matching in Online Retail – Download PDF
by Bottasso, Anna & Robbiano, Simone & Marocco, Paolo

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion.  Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that while robotization reduces physically demanding activities, the reduction in manual work does not coincide with a shift to more challenging and interesting tasks.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1350, 2023

Just another cog in the machine? A worker-level view of robotization and tasks – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena & Lepinteur, Anthony & Cnossen, Femke

GLO Fellows Milena Nikolova, Anthony Lepinteur and Femke Cnossen

Author Abstract: Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks across 20 European countries, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that robotization simultaneously replaces, creates, and modifies workers’ tasks and studies how these forces impact workers’ job content. We rely on instrumental variable techniques and show that robotization reduces physically demanding activities. Yet, this reduction in manual work does not coincide with a shift to more challenging and interesting tasks. Instead, robotization makes workers’ tasks more routine, while diminishing the opportunities for cognitively challenging work and human contact. The adverse impact of robotization on social tasks is particularly pronounced for highly skilled and educated workers. Our study offers a unique worker-centric viewpoint on the interplay between technology and tasks, highlighting nuances that macro-level indicators overlook. As such, it sheds light on the mechanisms underpinning the impact of robotization on labor markets.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
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December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds no support for the hypothesized positive effect of cultural similarity. However, religious similarity has a significant negative effect on migration.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1349, 2023

Cultural similarity and migration: New evidence from a gravity model of international migration – Download PDF
by Grohmann, Tobias

GLO Affiliate Tobias Grohmann

Author Abstract: Theory suggests that cultural similarity increases migration flows between countries. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration to test this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time-varying similarity variables in a panel of international and domestic migration flows (>200 countries, 1990-2019, 5-year intervals) and estimate a theory-consistent structural gravity model with origin-year, destination-year, and corridor fixed effects. The results do not show the hypothesized positive effect of cultural similarity on migration. Instead, religious similarity has a significant negative effect on migration, while WVS-based attitudinal similarities regarding individualism, indulgence, and trust are insignificant. Additional results suggest that cultural selection and sorting can explain these findings, where migrants are attracted by destinations that are culturally similar to their personal cultural beliefs rather than the average cultural beliefs of their home country. Results of a two-stage fixed effects (TSFE) procedure and a gravity-specific matching estimator, which both allow the estimation of time-invariant similarity variables, confirm that the relationship between cultural similarity and migration is more nuanced than previously thought.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that the positive impact in the short term still makes short-time work desirable even without positive employment effects in the long term.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1348, 2023

Theory and Empirics of Short-Time Work: A Review – Download PDF
by Bermudez, Natalia & , Muriel & Tarullo, Giulia

GLO Fellow Muriel Dejemeppe

Author Abstract: Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary characteristics, as well as the inefficiencies associated with these policies, such as excessive use and slower worker reallocation. Additionally, we take a stroll through the main contributions of STW impact evaluations. Finally, we identify relevant directions for the refinement of the main design features of the scheme, key lessons, and avenues for future research.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper using Dutch panel data finds that unemployment does not lead to social exclusion.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1346, 2023

You’ll never walk alone: Unemployment, social networks and leisure activities – Download PDF
by Filomena, Mattia & Picchio, Matteo

GLO Fellow Matteo Picchio

Author Abstract: We analyse how unemployment affects individuals’ social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a difference-in-differences design in order to deal with unobserved heterogeneity and unbalanced covariate distribution between treated and control units potentially associated with the dynamics of the outcome variables. We find that, after job loss, individuals increase their network size by strengthening their closest contacts within the family, spending more time with neighbors, and making more use of social media. Although they devote their extra leisure time mostly to private activities, our results do not support the hypothesis of social exclusion following unemployment.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of JOPE issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that firms that received the China Top Brand Award have a higher number, and better quality, of filed patents.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1345, 2023

Nonmonetary Awards and Innovation: Evidence from Winning China’s Top Brand Contest – Download PDF
by Luo, Lianfa & Cheng, Zhiming & Ye, Qingqing & Cheng, Yanjun & Smyth, Russell & Yang, Zhiqing & Zhang, Le

GLO Fellow Zhiming Cheng

Author Abstract: We use the short-lived, but high-profile, China Top Brand Award to examine the causal effects of nonmonetary awards on firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China Top Brand Award have a higher number, and better quality, of filed patents. We find that the positive effects of winning the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find that the positive effects of award-winning are stronger among state-owned enterprises, larger enterprises, and better-performing enterprises, as well as in provinces with stronger intellectual property rights protection. Our results are robust to a series of sensitivity checks.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of JOPE issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on chronic poverty than transient poverty.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1347, 2023

Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Hallegatte, Stephane & Trinh, Trong-Anh

GLO Fellow Hai-Anh Dang

Author Abstract: We offer an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further analyzing a recently constructed global database at the subnational unit level derived from official national household income and consumption surveys, we find that temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on chronic poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and are more pronounced for poorer countries. Our findings offer relevant inputs into current efforts to fight climate change.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

December 4-6: Global Online GLO-JOPE Conference 2023 on ‘Population Economics’ with highlights of JOPE issues 3 & 4 of 2023 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize. More information forthcoming.

JUST PUBLISHED
Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that acyclical and countercyclical wage establishments are key drivers for stronger labor market reactions in recessions than in booms.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1344, 2023

Wage and Employment Cyclicalities at the Establishment Level – Download PDF
by Merkl, Christian & Stüber, Heiko

GLO Fellow Christian Merkl

Author Abstract: Although the quantitative relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality is central for the dynamics of macroeconomic models, there is little empirical evidence on this topic. We use the German AWFP dataset to document that wage cyclicalities are very heterogeneous across establishments. Based on this heterogeneity, we estimate the relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality at the establishment level. We use this micro-estimate as a calibration target for a macro labor market flow model with heterogeneous wage dynamics that nests the standard search and matching model. Based on this micro-macro linkage, we provide a new quantitative benchmark for the role of wage rigidity in search and matching models. Furthermore, we show that acyclical and countercyclical wage establishments are key drivers for stronger labor market reactions in recessions than in booms.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper using time-use data for India suggests that policies that aim to increase women’s education and promote gender-equal attitudes among men can enhance the daughter-in-law’s bargaining power and time allocation.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1343, 2023

Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India: The role of education as bargaining power – Download PDF
by Bhattacharya, Leena

GLO Fellow Leena Bhattacharya

Video presentation of the paper

Author Abstract: The paper addresses the less-researched topic of intrahousehold dynamics of female in-laws in developing countries by focusing on the bargaining between mother-in-law and daughter-inlaw and its influence on the latter’s time allocation. Using the first nationally representative Time Use Survey of India, 2019, the paper answers two questions. First, how does the presence of the parents-in-law, particularly the mother-in-law, shape the daughter-in-law’s distribution of time between paid and unpaid activities? Second, how does the relative bargaining power among the female in-laws affect the daughter-in-law’s time allocation across different activities, where their education levels are used as indicators of bargaining power? The findings show that the daughter-in-law’s participation in paid work increases in the presence of her mother-in-law and she allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law’s time allocated to household production and childcare increases when she co-resides with a daughter-in-law who has completed tertiary education. The father-in-law’s presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law’s engagement in paid work and increases both women’s time spent on household production. Heterogeneity in results is observed by socio-religious groups and by the extent of patriarchy in the state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women’s education and promote gender-equal attitudes among men can enhance the daughter-in-law’s bargaining power and time allocation.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death finding that a youth allowance leads to a higher lifetime well-being.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1342, 2023

Social Insurance against a Short Life: Ante-Mortem versus Post-Mortem Policies – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory

GLO Fellow Gregory Ponthiere

Author Abstract: Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death: (i) an ante-mortem age-based statistical discrimination policy that consists of an allowance given to all young adults (including the unidentified adults who will die early); (ii) a post-mortem subsidy on accidental bequests due to early death. Each policy is financed by taxing old-age consumption. Whereas each device can yield full insurance, the youth allowance is shown to imply a higher lifetime well-being at the stationary equilibrium. The marginal utility of consumption exceeding the marginal utility of giving when being dead, the youth allowances system is, despite imperfect targeting, a more efficient mechanism of insurance against the risk of early death.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million individuals from 156 countries finds that both inflation and unemployment associates negatively with confidence in financial institutions.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1341, 2023

The societal costs of inflation and unemployment – Download PDF
by Popova, Olga & See, Sarah Grace & Nikolova, Milena & Otrachshenko, Vladimir

GLO Fellows Olga Popova & Milena Nikolova

Author Abstract: What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million individuals from 156 countries via the Gallup World Poll spanning 2005 to 2021, alongside macroeconomic data at the national level, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong negative association with these outcomes. While we find no gender differences in the consequences of inflation and unemployment for confidence in political and financial institutions, the associations we document are more substantial for the cohorts that are likely to bear a disproportionate burden from inflation and unemployment-the middle-aged, lower-educated, and unmarried individuals, and for those living in rural areas. Uncertainty about the country’s economic performance and one’s own economic situation are the primary channels behind the associations we identify. These findings hold significant implications for policymakers, Central Banks, and public discourse, necessitating targeted strategies to alleviate the social consequences of inflation and unemployment.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper using a cross-sectional sample of more than 21,000 European establishments finds that establishments with employee representation are more likely to utilize digital monitoring technologies than establishments without.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1340, 2023

Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice – Download PDF
by Burdin, Gabriel & Dughera, Stefano & Landini, Fabio & Belloc, Filippo

GLO Fellows Gabriel Burdin, Fabio Landini & Ignacio Belloc

Author Abstract: Advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics have notably expanded employers’ monitoring and surveillance capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers about the productivity and broader welfare implications of digital monitoring (DM) technologies. In this context, many countries confer information, consultation and codetermination rights to (ER) bodies on matters related to workplace organization and the introduction of new technologies, which could potentially discourage employers from making DM investments. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 21000 European establishments, we find instead that establishments with ER are more likely to utilize DM technologies than establishments without ER. We also document a positive effect of ER on DM utilization in the context of a local-randomization regression discontinuity analysis that exploits size-contingent policy rules governing the operation of ER bodies in Europe. We rationalize this unexpected finding through the lens of a theoretical framework in which shared governance via ER create organizational safeguards that mitigate workers’ negative responses to monitoring and undermines the disciplining effect of DM technologies.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper develops a model to show how contraction in demand for IT-enabled works will determine how much of works to be completed in the US (home) and the remainder to be sourced out to say, India (abroad).

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1338, 2023

Where have all Tech Layoffs gone? A Model of Two Worker Types with Outsourcing – Download PDF
by Marjit, Sugata & Das, Gouranga G.

GLO Fellow Gouranga Das

Author Abstract: The flourishing of IT-sector and IT-enabled services has led to emergence of different activities by leaps and bounds thanks to proliferation of Virtual plattorm-based transactions, and E-commerce. However, massive layoffs started in 2022, as all tech giants encountered revenue declines amidst supply chain issues, inflation, Ukraine war, leading to deflation and fears of recession squeezing consumer and business spending. This has happened across the globe. In the context of the countries supplying low- wage labor (skilled wage in Indian Silicon Valley at Bengaluru is lower than that in the Californian Silicon Valley), similar episodes unfolded but to a different extent. The evidence suggests that layoffs in developing economies like India is much less than that in the US with limited impact on Indian industry despite severe global downturn. Jobs and hiring will move out of the developed markets to these emerging markets with cost advantages owing to lower salaries, as with low demand, drive to cutdown costs will induce firms to outsource some operations outside while focusing on core functions provided the cost of outsourcing is not too high. In this paper, we build a model to show how contraction in demand for IT-enabled works will determine how much of works to be completed in the US (home) and the remainder to be sourced out to say, India (abroad). We identify the conditions under which switching from pure domestic production to outsourcing using hired foreign workers will happen. We show that in both cases of perfectly competitive homogeneous product as well as in case of differentiated goods oligopoly scenarios that the hiring ceases drastically in the home while the outsourced workers will not suffer to a large extent. Home bears the burden of adjustment due to the sheer cost disadvantages of the home.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that the energy regulation has a positive impact on enterprise energy efficiency.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1339, 2023

The Impact of the Energy Conservation Law on Enterprise Energy Efficiency: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms – Download PDF
by Yu, Hongwei & Chen, Wenjin & Wang, Xinyi & Delina, Laurence & Cheng, Zhiming & Zhang, Le

GLO Fellow Zhiming Cheng

Author Abstract: We employ a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to investigate the causal effect of China’s Energy Conservation Law (ECL) on the energy efficiency of Chinese firms. Using data from the 2018 China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), we find that the energy regulation has a positive impact on enterprise energy efficiency. Furthermore, we observe that the effects of the regulation vary across industries, ownership types, and firm ages. We also find that energy management system (EnMS) and technological innovation are mechanisms through which the energy regulation helps improve enterprise energy efficiency. These findings underscore the importance of well-designed and effectively implemented energy regulations in fostering energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions in the industrial sector. They also highlight the need to consider the heterogeneity of the regulatory impact when designing energy-saving policies.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper reveals the determinants of child begging.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1337, 2023

Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

GLO Fellow Nick Drydakis

Author Abstract: The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the capital city of Greece, Athens, where beggar children are not a hard-to-reach group. Cross-sectional data were collected in 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2022, with 127 beggar children taking part in the study. The study adopted the Anti-Slavery International research toolkit, which sets methodological guidelines on researching child begging. A scale was developed to quantify forced child begging based on the International Labour Organization’s definition of forced labor. The study found that most beggar children were forced by others to beg, experienced threats of violence, physical and verbal harassment aimed at forcing them to beg, and difficulty in terms of being allowed by others to stop begging. It was found that forced child begging was positively associated with living with unknown people, hunger due to food unavailability the previous week, and negatively associated with native beggar children. It was discovered that forced child begging was negatively associated with health-related quality of life and mental health for beggar children. Child begging encompasses elements of coercion and the deprivation of human freedom. These factors collectively amount to instances of forced labor and/or modern slavery. Policies should ensure that beggar children are removed from harm’s way, and that those forcing children to beg are brought to justice.

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JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for India that if the decision to use contraceptives is solely taken by the woman, she is at a significantly higher risk of physical, sexual and emotional domestic violence.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1336, 2023

Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use and domestic violence – Download PDF
by Ojha, Manini & Babbar, Karan

GLO Fellow Manini Ojha

Author Abstract: Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women’s autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to use contraception and the occurrence of intimate partner violence. Utilizing newly available nationally representative data for India, we use an instrumental variable approach to estimate our causal effects. Using exogenous variation in the cluster average of women’s exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives is solely taken by the woman, she is at a significantly higher risk of physical, sexual and emotional domestic violence. We estimate bounds of our effects by assuming the IV to be plausibly exogenous where we relax the exogeneity condition. Our findings underscore the importance of reproductive health in initiatives that reduce domestic violence and targeted policies towards men’s understanding of family planning.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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– Abortions
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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The new GLO Discussion Paper provides an explanation for the absence of the Preston Curve in countries where old-age dependency is more acute.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1335, 2023

Life Expectancy, Income and Long-Term Care: The Preston Curve Reexamined – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory & Thibault, Emmanuel

GLO Fellows Gregory Ponthiere & Emmanuel Thibault

Author Abstract: The Preston Curve – the increasing relation between income per capita and life expectancy – cannot be observed in countries where old-age dependency is widespread (that is, where long-term care (LTC) spending per capita is high). The absence of the Preston Curve in countries with high old-age dependency can be related to two other stylized facts: (1) the inverted-U relation between LTC spending and life expectancy; (2) the inverted-U relation between LTC spending and preventive health investments. This paper develops a two-period OLG model where survival to the old age depends on preventive health spending chosen by individuals while anticipating (fixed) old-age LTC costs. In that model, anticipated LTC costs are shown to have a non-monotonic effect on preventive health investment, thus rationalizing stylized facts (1) and (2). This framework is shown to provide an explanation for the absence of the Preston Curve in countries where old-age dependency is more acute.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper suggests that U.S. immigration policy plays an important role in whether immigrants bring in a spouse. 

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1334, 2023

Finding Love Abroad: Who Marries a Migrant and What Do They Gain? – Download PDF
by Dziadula, Eva & Zavodny, Madeline

GLO Fellows Eva Dziadula & Madeline Zavodny

Author Abstract: This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U.S. residents “imported” a spouse instead of marrying someone already present in the country. Our findings indicate that U.S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a “marriage migrant” (someone who arrived in the U.S. the same year as the marriage occurred) are positively selected along some dimensions but negatively along others. The results also suggest that U.S. immigration policy plays an important role in whether immigrants bring in a spouse. We further investigate the trade-offs in spouse characteristics associated with having a marriage-migrant spouse. There appear to be several advantages to marrying a migrant, including that marriage-migrant spouses tend to be relatively younger and less likely to have been previously married. Immigrants’ gains to marrying a migrant are bigger among naturalized citizens, showcasing the desirability of someone who can easily sponsor a spouse for permanent residence.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that AI exposure has a positive impact on regional employment in Europe.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1333, 2023

Artificial Intelligence and Employment: A Look into the Crystal Ball – Download PDF
by Guarascio, Dario & Reljic, Jelena & Stöllinger, Roman

GLO Fellow Dario Guarascio & GLO Affiliate Jelena Reljic

Author Abstract: This study provides evidence of the employment impact of AI exposure in European regions, addressing one of the many gaps in the emerging literature on AI’s effects on employment in Europe. Building upon the occupation-based AI-exposure indicators proposed by Felten et al. (2018, 2019, 2021), which are mapped to the European occupational classification (ISCO), following Albanesi et al. (2023), we analyse the regional employment dynamics between 2011 and 2018. After controlling for a wide range of supply and demand factors, our findings indicate that, on average, AI exposure has a positive impact on regional employment. Put differently, European regions characterised by a relatively larger share of AI-exposed occupations display, all else being equal and once potential endogeneity concerns are mitigated, a more favourable employment tendency over the period 2011-2018. We also find evidence of a moderating effect of robot density on the AI-employment nexus, which however lacks a causal underpinning.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that youth entrepreneurship programs may steer some participants away from their comparative advantage.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1332, 2023

Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda – Download PDF
by Blimpo, Moussa P. & Pugatch, Todd

GLO Fellows Moussa P. Blimpo & Todd Pugatch

Author Abstract: The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda’s entrepreneurship education reform in secondary schools to evaluate its effect on student economic outcomes up to three years after graduation. Using a randomized controlled trial, we evaluated a three-year intensive training for entrepreneurship teachers, finding pedagogical changes as intended and increased entrepreneurial activity among students. In this paper, we tracked students following graduation and found that increased entrepreneurship persisted one year later, in 2019. Students from treated schools were six percentage points more likely to be entrepreneurs, an increase of 19 percent over the control mean. However, gains in entrepreneurship faded after three years, in 2021. Employment was six percentage points lower in the treatment group. By some measures, income and profits were lower in the treatment group, with no robust differences in these outcomes overall. Lower incomes and profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship programs may therefore steer some participants away from their comparative advantage. Nonetheless, the program increased university enrollment, suggesting the potential for higher long run returns.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper suggests that physical and human capital are less substitutable than Cobb-Douglas assumes.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1331, 2023

Human Capital Misallocation and Output per Worker Differences: Beyond Cobb-Douglas – Download PDF
by Trenczek, Jan & Wacker, Konstantin M.

GLO Fellow Konstantin M. Wacker

Author Abstract: Misallocation of human capital across sectors can have substantial negative implications for aggregate output. So far, the literature examining this type of labor misallocation has assumed a Cobb-Douglas production function. Our paper departs from this assumption and instead considers more exible CES production functions with different labor skill types as individual inputs. Our estimates from sectoral data of 39 countries suggest that physical and human capital are less substitutable than Cobb-Douglas assumes. Our counterfactual results indicate that human capital misallocation can explain approximately 15% of output per worker variation across countries, which is substantially less than under a Cobb-Douglas specification (21%).

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that reinforcing technological specialization may help mitigating strategic dependencies.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1330, 2023

Technological Sovereignty and Strategic Dependencies: The case of the Photovoltaic Supply Chain – Download PDF
by Caravella, Serenella & Crespi, Francesco & Cucignatto, Giacomo & Guarascio, Dario

GLO Fellow Dario Guarascio

Author Abstract: This work sheds new light on the Photovoltaic Supply Chain (PVSC), providing fresh evidence on strategic dependencies (SDs) and (asymmetrically distributed) technological capabilities. Bridging the perspectives of ‘technological sovereignty’ and ‘strategic autonomy’, a number of contributions are provided. First, we carry out a fine-grained mapping of the PVSC, combining trade and patent data. Second, we assess the long-term evolution of trade and technological hierarchies, documenting processes of polarization and growing SDs. Third, we zoom-in on critical PV areas (i.e. products and related technologies), providing a ‘strategic intelligence’ activity which may prove useful for tailoring trade, industrial and innovation policies. Fourth, we explore the relationship between technological specialization and productive capabilities showing that, in the upstream segment, reinforcing the former may help mitigating SDs.

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JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that higher exposure to protests in 1968 leads to higher dissatisfaction toward national governments and raises the probability of voting for populist parties. 

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1329, 2023

Protests, Long-term Preferences, and Populism. Evidence from 1968 in Europe – Download PDF
by Fazio, Andrea

GLO Fellow Andrea Fazio

Author Abstract: In 1968, young people grew up in an atmosphere of strong dissatisfaction and distrust against the status quo. We show that higher exposure to protests in 1968 leads to higher dissatisfaction toward national governments and raises the probability of voting for populist parties. Consistently with the impressionable years hypothesis, we find these effects valid only for those aged between 18 and 25 during 1968. Our results are robust to a series of placebo tests and to alternative definitions of our treatment and control groups. We find that our results are driven by individuals with a middle or low level of education. We also find suggestive evidence that the mechanisms driving our results can depend on individuals’ level of education: within our treated cohort people with an elementary level of education appear more attracted by the populist rhetoric, while people with a middle level of education are more likely to care about traditional values.

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JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

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JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
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– Lifecycle fertility models
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https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows by scenarios that global warming will substantially decrease sleep duration. 

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1328, 2023

Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys – Download PDF
by Hajdu, Tamás

GLO Fellow Tamás Hajdu

Author Abstract: The Earth’s climate is projected to warm significantly in the 21st century, and this will affect human societies in many ways. Since sleep is a basic human need and part of everyone’s life, the question of how temperature affects human sleep naturally arises. This paper examines the effect of daily mean temperature on sleep duration using nationally representative Hungarian time use surveys between 1976 and 2010. Compared to a mild temperature (5-10 °C), colder temperatures do not influence sleep duration. However, as daily mean temperatures rise, sleep duration starts to strongly decline. The effect of a hot (>25 °C) day is −12.4 minutes. The estimated sleep loss is especially large on weekends and public holidays, for older individuals, and for men. Combining the estimated effects with temperature projections of twenty-four climate models under four climate change scenarios shows that the warming climate will substantially decrease sleep duration. The projected impacts are especially large when taking into account of the effects of heatwave days. This study also shows that different groups in society are likely to be affected in significantly different ways by a warming climate.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1327, 2023

Overeducation, Performance Pay and Wages: Evidence from Germany – Download PDF
by Baktash, Mehrzad B.

GLO Affiliate Mehrzad B. Baktash

Author Abstract: Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. Yet, less consensus exists over the adjustment mechanisms to overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance pay moderates the wages of overeducated workers positively. It also holds in endogenous switching regressions accounting for the potential endogeneity of performance pay. Importantly, the positive role of performance pay is particularly larger for the wages of overeducated women.

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Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that relative to endogenous port ownership structures, state-owned ports appear as the most likely equilibrium result.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1326, 2023

GLO Fellow Nicola Meccheri

Unionised dockworkers and port ownership structure in an international oligopoly – Download PDF
by Meccheri, Nicola

Author Abstract: In an international duopoly with two markets and two ports, this paper investigates the role of dockworkers unionisation in affecting welfare outcomes under public and private ports, as well as in determining the endogenous choice by governments of port ownership structure. While private ports maximise profits, public ports maximise domestic welfare and face a budget constraint, which is binding when unions are sufficiently wage-oriented and shipping costs are not too high. Consumer surplus, total wage bill and domestic welfare are generally higher under public ownership, especially when unions are wage-oriented. The opposite holds true for firm profits, whilst privatisation always increases port profits. Moreover, relative to endogenous port ownership structures, state-owned ports appear as the most likely equilibrium result although all possible configurations may arise in equilibrium, including an asymmetric structure with a state-owned port and a private port.

Journal of Population Economics (JOPE)
JOPE (2022): CiteScore 9.2 (LINK) & Impact Factor 6.1; 524 K Downloads

JUST PUBLISHED
ONLINE FIRST: 32 articles forthcoming in Volume 36, Issue 4, 2023. Covered issues: Historical demography; fertility and marriage; migration and refugee issues; health, vaccinations, risky behaviors; education; retirement; gender issues and preferences

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOPE invites paper submissions for the following collections:
– Abortions
– Covid-19 and diseases
– Lifecycle fertility models
– Sexual and domestic violence
– Sexuality including LGBT issues
– Statistics & measurement of population economics
For more details and for examples of already published papers in these collections see: 
https://glabor.org/collections-journal-of-population-economics-invites-paper-submissions-in-six-research-areas/
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.

GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS,  EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs – downloadable for free.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, debate and collaboration.

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