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8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Fertility decline and family policies” at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, organized with support of the Journal of Population Economics.

After participating in the EBES 53 conference in Istanbul, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann traveled to Guangzhou, China, from July 5-11, 2025. As a Honorary Professor of IESR, Jinan University, he met with a larger number of researchers for academic exchange and research and co-organized a workshop event. IESR is a GLO partner institution and hosts an annual joint research workshop. The topic this year was “Fertility decline and family policies”, a topic where the Journal of Population Economics seeks high-quality submissions.

The intensive week started on July 7 with participating in a public lecture of Nobel Prize Laureate Joshua D. Angrist of MIT on “Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better: Rescuing Real-World Randomized Trials”. What an impressive and insightful talk!

Picture left (center): Klaus F. Zimmermann, Josh Angrist, Jinan University Rector Feng Xing, IESR Dean Shuaizhang Feng.
Picture right: Klaus F. Zimmermann, Josh Angrist

On July 8, Zimmermann gave a lecture to IESR junior faculty and students on “Publishing in International Research Journals” and interacted with IESR senior faculty including IESR Dean Shuaizhang Feng. On July 9 and 10 followed meetings with GLO Fellows Shu Cai, Qing Pei and Max Tani.

The 8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Fertility decline and family policies” took place on July 10-11, 2025, in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. It was organized in co-operation with the Journal of Population Economics and collected a selection of great research papers on the topic.

Final Program

Day 1, July 10
12:00-13:30 PM Lunch

13:30-13:45 PM Welcome
Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, JOPE Editor
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

13:45-14:30 PM
Title: The Economics of Fertility Decline
Author(s): Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin & GLO)

14:30-15:15 PM
Title: Migration Reform and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Rural China
Author(s): Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University of Technology & GLO)
         Wenchao Jin

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

15:45-16:30 PM
Title: Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India
Author(s): Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence & GLO)
Roopal Jain & Priyoma Mustafi

16:30-17:15 PM
Title: Automation and Fertility Transitions in China
Author(s): Yue Wang (Peking University and GLO)
Chen Kang (Tongji University) & Xiaobing Wang (Peking University)

17:30-19:30 PM Dinner

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

9:00-9:45 AM
Title: Background Risk and Fertility
Author(s): Massimiliano Tani Bertuol (School of Business, UNSW & GLO)

9:45-10:30 AM
Title: Sex Ratio, Commitment and Power Distribution Within the Household: An Empirical Investigation of China’s One Child Policy
Author(s): Xiao Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business)
Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University) & Yaohui Zhao (Wuhan University & Peking University)

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:45 AM
Title: Family Planning Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
Author(s): Rufei Guo (Wuhan University and GLO)
Jiawei Sheng (Wuhan University), Ying Wang (Wuhan University) & Jingyuan Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

11:45-12:30 PM
Title: Climate Change and Migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Author(s): Qing Pei (Hong Kong Polytechnic University & GLO)

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:

– Seventh Renmin University & GLO Annual Conference 2024 on Low Fertility & Population Aging. In collaboration with the Journal of Population Economics. LINK

Hart, R.K., Bergsvik, J., Fauske, A., Kim, W. (2024). Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.
https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_451-1

CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection Understanding Fertility Decline of the Journal of Population Economics. Details. See more related papers there.

– Costanzo, C. Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. Journal of Population Economics 38, 51 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01105-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubHU
– Huang, W., Wang, Y., Wu, H. et al. The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study. Journal of Population Economics 38, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01078-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJs
– Li, H., Shi, X. The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences. Journal of Population Economics 38, 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01061-y. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJ4
– Luo, W., Zou, X. Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility. Journal of Population Economics 37, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01040-9. Free to read. https://rdcu.be/eubKD

– Victoria Vernon and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2021), “Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics”, in: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P. and Partridge, M., The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, Springer, Heidelberg et al., pp. 33-54; GLO Discussion Paper No. 33o, 2019. Pre-publication version. Published. More info on book.

Call for Papers : 53rd EBES Conference in Madrid on October 16-18, 2025

The 53rd EBES Conference takes place in Madrid/Spain on October 16-18, 2025 hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad Complutense, with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association. Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities to present new research, exchange information, and discuss current issues. Although the focus is on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. The conference will be held as a hybrid event, allowing participants to present via the Zoom platform and in person.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is September 16, 2025.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than September 16, 2025.

For submission, please visit the website at
https://ebesweb.org/53rd-ebes-conference-madrid/53rd-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: October 16-18, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 16, 2025
Reply-by: September 19, 2025*
Registration Deadline: September 23, 2025
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: September 23, 2025
Announcement of the Program: September 28, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): September 24, 2025**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: December 15, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before September 16, 2025, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by September 24, 2025.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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EBES 52 in Istanbul July 3-5, 2025

The 52nd EBES Conference – Istanbul takes place on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Event & Program Link. Highlights of the conference include:

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8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on Fertility Decline and Family Policies (July 10-11, 2025). In co-operation with the Journal of Population Economics.

 The 8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Fertility decline and family policies” takes place on July 10-11, 2025, in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. It is organized in co-operation with the Journal of Population Economics. Attendence is on invitation only.

Program

Day 1, July 10
12:00-13:30 PM Lunch

13:30-13:45 PM Welcome
Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, JOPE Editor
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

13:45-14:30 PM
Title: The Economics of Fertility Decline
Author(s): Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin & GLO)

14:30-15:15 PM
Title: Migration Reform and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Rural China
Author(s): Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University of Technology & GLO)
         Wenchao Jin

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

15:45-16:30 PM
Title: Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India
Author(s): Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)
Roopal Jain & Priyoma Mustafi

16:30-17:15 PM
Title: Climate Change and Migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Author(s): Qing Pei (Education University of Hong Kong & GLO)

18:30-20:30 PM Dinner (By invitation)

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

9:00-9:45 AM
Title: Background Risk and Fertility
Author(s): Massimiliano Tani Bertuol (School of Business, UNSW, & GLO)

9:45-10:30 AM
Title: Sex Ratio, Commitment and Power Distribution Within the Household: An Empirical Investigation of China’s One Child Policy
Author(s): Xiao Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business)

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:45 AM
Title: Family Planning Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
Author(s): Rufei Guo (Wuhan University and GLO)

11:45-12:30 PM
Title: Automation and Fertility Transitions in China
Author(s): Yue Wang (Peking University and GLO)
Chen Kang (Tongji University) & Xiaobing Wang (Peking University)

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:
– Seventh Renmin University & GLO Annual Conference 2024 on Low Fertility & Population Aging. In collaboration with the Journal of Population Economics. LINK
Hart, R.K., Bergsvik, J., Fauske, A., Kim, W. (2024). Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_451-1
CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection Understanding Fertility Decline of the Journal of Population Economics. Details. See more related papers there.
– Costanzo, C. Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. Journal of Population Economics 38, 51 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01105-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubHU
– Huang, W., Wang, Y., Wu, H. et al. The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study. Journal of Population Economics 38, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01078-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJs
– Li, H., Shi, X. The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences. Journal of Population Economics 38, 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01061-y. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJ4
– Luo, W., Zou, X. Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility. Journal of Population Economics 37, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01040-9. Free to read. https://rdcu.be/eubKD

New GLO Discussion Papers of June 2025: Free to Access

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Seven discussion papers from June 2025 on social origins, healthcare utilization of refugees, education and earnings, indirect taxation and in-kind benefits in the EU, life satisfaction in Eastern Europe, smog and suicidal ideation among kids in school, policy threats and gains for recipients.

New GLO Research DPs June 2025

1623 Social Origins and Field of Study Download PDF
by Scervini, Francesco & Volponi, Laura

1622 The Effect of Initial Location Assignment on Healthcare Utilization of Refugees  Download PDF
by Kulshreshtha, Shobhit

1621  Education and Earnings in Arkansas  Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Rivera, Angelica

1620 Net Fiscal Contributions in the EU – The role of indirect taxation and in-kind benefits  Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & Köppl-Turyna, Monika

1619 Are We Happy Yet? Revisiting Life Satisfaction in Eastern Europe  Download PDF
by Mladjan, Mrdjan & Nikolova, Elena

1618 Blowin’ in the Wind: Smog and Suicidal Ideation among School-Age Children  Download PDF
by Zhang, Xin & Chen, Xi & Sun, Hong & Yang, Yuanjian

1617 DACA’s Uncertain Path: How Policy Threats Reshape Economic and Social Gains for Recipients  Download PDF
by Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina & Wang, Chunbei

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New GLO Discussion Papers of May 2025: Free to Access

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Eleven discussion papers from May 2025 on state dependence in social assistance, workweek reform, Mariel Boatlift and women, wellbeing and compliance, unlocking global markets, monetary roots of exploitation, abortion policies and fertility, community-living older persons, physician-patient gender match, work permits in Colombia, and nudging eyeglass use among children.

New GLO Research DPs May 2025

1615 Structural State Dependence in Social Assistance through the Lens of Couples’ Ethnic Composition. Evidence from Swedish Panel Data  Download PDF
by Andrén, Daniela & Andrén, Thomas & Kahanec, Martin

1614 Working 37.5 hours per week: Who Truly Gains from Spain’s new Workweek reform?  Download PDF
by Narazani, Edlira

1613 Evaluating the Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes: A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Analysis  Download PDF
by Wang, Yifan & Wang, Chunbei & Holmes, Chanita

1612 Experienced well-being and compliance behaviour: new applications of Quality of Life theories, using AI and real-time data  Download PDF
by Rossouw, Stephanié & Greyling, Talita

1611 Unlocking Global Markets: The Impact of International Standards Certification on Pakistani Firms’ Export Performance  Download PDF
by Wadho, Waqar & Chaudhry, Azam

1610 An Essay on the Monetary Roots of Exploitation  Download PDF
by Andini, Corrado

1609 The Effect of Abortion Policies on Fertility and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa  Download PDF
by Dimico, Arcangelo

1608 Absence of Care Among Community-Living Older Persons with Dementia and Disabilities: A Cross-National Analysis of Population Survey from 22 Countries  Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Qian, Yuting & Gill, Thomas M. & Hou, Xiaohui & Allore, Heather & Chen, Shanquan & Chen, Xi

1607 The Impact of Physician-Patient Gender Match on Healthcare Quality: An Experiment in China  Download PDF
by Si, Yafei & Chen, Gang & Zhou, Zhongliang & Yip, Winnie & Chen, Xi

1606 From Exodus to Employment: Labor Market Transitions and the Role of Work Permits in Colombia  Download PDF
by García-Suaza, Andres & Mondragón-Mayo, Angie & Sarango-Iturralde, Alexander

1605 Nudging Eyeglass Use Among Children: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Vietnam  Download PDF
by Cuong Viet Nguyen & Quynh Thien Thi Pham & Tung Duc Phung

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CiteScore 2024 out – Journal of Population Economics stabilizes position as top field journal

As of June 2025, the CiteScore 2024 (Scopus) numbers are out. In this ranking system, the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) has stabilized and strengthened its leading position as a top field journal.

CiteScore 2024 counts the citations received in 2021-2024 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2021-2024, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2021-2024.

The JOPE CiteScore 2024 (Scopus)  is 8.7.

Similar to many other journals, the JOPE CiteScore is lower in 2024 (8.7) than in 2023 (9.6), but JOPE is now number 2 out of 140 journals ranked in Demography and number 72 out of 732 journals ranked in Economics and Econometrics. 
 
Other top field journals include:
Demography: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (CiteScore 7.5/rank #4); Population and Development Review (6.5/8), Demography (6.0/11), International Migration Review (5.7/15). The journal European Societies (16.8/1) ranked before JOPE is not a common demography journal.
Economics and Econometrics: Journal of Development Economics (CiteScore 8.9/rank 67), Review of Economics of the Household (8.7/74), China Economic Review (8.2/85), Journal of Human Resources (8.1/89), Journal of Labor Economics (7.3/104). There are many non-standard journals ranked higher than JOPE. 
 
SEE ALSO: Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 for GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann & the Journal of Population Economics.

2025-26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS). Deadline for Applications: August 15, 2025.

Global Labor Organization (GLO) invites interested young scholars to apply for participation in the 2025-26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS). This is the seventh cohort of the successful GLO venture to support career developments of young researchers. It also provides a unique opportunity to interact with the large and very active GLO global research network.

The application deadline is August 15, 2025, 5 PM GMT.
For general information see GLO VirtYS Website.

DETAILS – Abstract

The 2025–26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS) is a 10-month international research and mentoring initiative designed for early-career scholars committed to producing policy-relevant, high-quality academic work. Starting on October 1, 2025, selected participants will join a global cohort as GLO Affiliate and receive individual guidance from thematic cluster advisors, structured feedback on their research, and opportunities to present their findings within the GLO community. Upon successful completion by July 30, 2026, scholars will have the opportunity to submit their work to the GLO Discussion Paper Series and may be considered for appointment as a GLO Fellow.

DETAILS – Call

2025-26 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)

About GLO: The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is a global, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that has no institutional position. The GLO functions as an international network and virtual platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the general public interested in scientific research and its policy and societal implications on global labor markets, demographic challenges and human resources. These topics are defined broadly in line with its Mission to embrace the global diversity of labor markets, institutions, and policy challenges, covering advanced economies as well as transition and less developed countries.

Program’s Goal: In the spirit of the GLO Mission, the GLO VirtYS program’s goal is to contribute to the development of the future generation of researchers, who are committed to the creation of policy-relevant research, are well equipped to work in collaboration with policy makers and other stakeholders, and adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. This goal is achieved through the process of working on a specific research paper within the duration of the program, which is 10 months starting from October 1, 2025.

Program’s Advisory Board:

  • Jan van Ours, Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam, Netherlands, & Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Marie Claire Villeval, Research Professor, CNRS GATE, France
  • Marco Vivarelli, Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Director of the Department of Economic Policy, Italy
  • Le Wang, David M. Kohl Chair and Professor, Director of the Kohl Centre, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus, Bonn University, Free University Berlin, UNU-MERIT & President of GLO

Program’s Activities:

  • Virtual kick-off meeting of all the participants and Thematic Cluster advisors, who will be appointed by the participating Cluster leads to match closely participants’ research interests.
  • One-to-one activities with the Thematic Cluster Advisor will be agreed upon at the beginning of the scholarship period in an Individual Research Plan. These activities at a minimum shall include 2-3 virtual consultations, 1 review round of the completed research work and a discussion of the amendments (if needed) to follow up.
  • Provide a virtual platform for the GLO VirtYS program participants to present their findings and receive feedback from their peers and the GLO wider community.
  • The scholarship will conclude in July 2026 followed by the presentations by the scholars within the GLO-wide seminar series in September 2026, after which the GLO Management Board will make a decision on whether to extend an invitation to the graduate of the GLO Virtual Scholar Program to join the organization as a GLO Fellow, based on the recommendation from their Thematic Cluster Advisors and evaluation of the GLO VirtYS Advisory Board.

Research proposals are invited related to any of the GLO Research and Policy Clusters: see Thematic Clusters I and Thematic Clusters II

Benefits to the GLO VYSP Scholars:

  • All GLO VirtYS program participants will become GLO Affiliates, if they are not already, and receive a GLO Bio page.
  • GLO VirtYS program participants will be listed on the www.glabor.org website of the program.
  • Feedback on their research from leading researchers in the area of their interest.
  • Networking opportunities with researchers from other countries within the same area and beyond
  • (Priority) access to GLO activities.
  • Interactions with the scholars of the cohort, program’s alumni, and the future cohorts.
  • Opportunity to promote own research via GLO channels.
  • Completed research paper ready for submission to the GLO Discussion Paper series.
  • Possibility of promotion to GLO Fellow after exceptional performance.

Eligibility criteria:

  • Applicant must be either currently enrolled in a doctoral program or be within 2 years after graduation as evidenced by the letter from the degree awarding institution or a degree certificate.
  • Applicant must be at an advanced stage of the analysis of a specific research question within the corresponding GLO Thematic Cluster to which he/she is applying as evidenced by the submitted draft.
  • Applicant must be supported by a letter of endorsement from either one of the GLO Fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions.

How to apply: all application materials have to be submitted online. If there are any questions, please write to o.nizalova@kent.ac.uk.

Selection procedure:

The GLO Virtual Young Scholars will be selected by a Scientific Selection Committee consisting of the GLO VirtYS Program Director, GLO thematic cluster leads participating in the current year, and a member of the GLO Management Board.

The results of the selection will be posted on the GLO site www.glabor.org by September 22, 2025. Scholars will be notified via email. In the 2025-26 academic year we expect to select 5-7 scholars.

The final research paper should be submitted by July 30, 2026, by 5 pm GMT.

Upon completion of the program and based on the quality of the produced research paper, some of the GLO VirtYS programme graduates may be invited to become GLO Fellows and their paper accepted as a GLO Discussion Paper.

Evaluation criteria for applications:

  1. Research excellence (50 points)
  2. Policy relevance of the research question in a local and/or global context (25 points)
  3. Potential for capacity development (25 points) (preference will be given to the applicants for which the GLO Young Scholars Program can bring the highest capacity development, compared to what the applicant would have achieved without being a GLO Young Scholar)

Application procedure:

Many applicants apply in the last days before the submission deadline. To avoid last minute problems, we ask applicants to apply in advance. Applications received after the deadline or applications that do not meet the requirements set out below will not be accepted.

To apply please complete the online application form with three attachments:

1. Research proposal (maximum 2 pages including references, single-spaced, font size 12) should include the following information:

• Formulation of the problem/ research question.
• Research methodology (data and empirical approach).
• (Potential) Practical/Policy implications.
• Reference list.

2. 2-page CV

3. Transcript from the doctoral program or doctoral degree certificate

4. Letter of endorsement for the candidate and the research proposal from either one of the GLO fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions reflecting on the potential of the candidate to benefit from the Program and the merits of the research proposal.

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Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 for GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann & the Journal of Population Economics.

“Dear Klaus F. Zimmermann,

At Springer Nature, we are thrilled to celebrate our exceptional editors like you, whose dedication to your journals and research communities is truly inspiring. Your tireless efforts in developing your journal’s community, supporting your authors and advocating for your communities are invaluable in advancing discovery.

We are proud to honour this remarkable work through the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards, and are delighted to announce that you’ve been selected to receive the following awards:

The Editorial Contribution Award for your contributions to Journal of Population Economics.
The Author Service Award for your contributions to Journal of Population Economics.

The Editor of Distinction awards recognise the outstanding contributions of our editorial community in the following key categories:  

Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award  – This award recognises your meticulous assessment of submissions and rigorous management of the peer review process, safeguarding the scientific accuracy of the published record.

Springer Nature Author Service Award  – This award recognises your exceptional service in improving the author experience and ensuring the peer review process is efficient, constructive and fair.

By rewarding you, we recognise the vital role you play in managing the peer review process and demonstrate our commitment to showcasing these activities. We greatly appreciate the time and expertise you dedicate to helping authors improve their manuscripts and are proud to work with you to build successful journals.

Congratulations and thank you for your dedication to your authors and advancing discovery!

Kind Regards, 
Ritu Dhand Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer”

GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec joins the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the College of European Commissioners

GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec has been appointed Member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the College of European Commissioners together with six other European scientists across disciplines. For details see LINK. Martin is also a member of the GLO Advisory Board and a long-term research partner of the GLO President, Klaus F. Zimmermann. Congratulations!

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New GLO Discussion Papers of April 2025: Free to Access

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Twenty-four discussion papers from April 2025 on AI & the labor market, youth mental health in a developing country, Jewish occupational attainment, bankruptcies during Covid, gender-specific application, intimate partner violence, Chinese internal migration policies, spatial dependence in Okun’s law, assimilation in the US, arduous jobs & migrants, telecare & elderly mortality, working longer hours, fiscal policies in the eurozone, Ukrainian refugees, childhood maltreatment, regional disparities, compulsory schooling laws, fertility in India, business visits and R&D, endogenous depopulation, informality, interaction effects with panel data, trust & sexual behavior, immigration & partnership dynamics.

New GLO Research DPs April 2025

1604 Unequal Impacts of AI on Colombia’s Labor Market: An Analysis of AI Exposure, Wages, and Job Dynamics  Download PDF
by Garcia-Suaza, Andrés & Sarango-Iturralde, Alexander & Caiza-Guamán, Pamela & Gil Díaz, Mateo & Acosta Castillo, Dana

1603 Breaking the Scroll (BTS): A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health in the Context of a Developing Economy  Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

1602 Jewish occupational attainment in the antebellum United States: Filling a gap in the literature  Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn H.

1601 Bankruptcies during Covid-19 in Italy: An interrupted time-series analysis  Download PDF
by Ferri, Valentina & Gallo, Giovanni & Scicchitano, Sergio

1600 Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap  Download PDF
by Lochner, Benjamin & Merkl, Christian

1599 The Double-Edged Sword: How Women’s Financial Inclusion Affects Intimate Partner Violence in India  Download PDF
by Shreemoyee, Shreemoyee & Roychowdhury, Punarjit & Dhamija, Gaurav

1598 The Health Impacts of Relaxing Internal Migration Policies: Quasi-experimental Evidence from China  Download PDF
by Wu, Fengyu & Wang, Julia Shu-Huah & You, Jing & Teitler, Julien

1597 Heterogeneity and spatial dependence in Okun’s law: a global view  Download PDF
by Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel & Martín-Román, Ángel & Porras-Arena, Sylvina

1596 A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S  Download PDF
by Duleep, Harriet & Dowhan, Dan & Liu, Xingfei & Regets, Mark & Gesumaria, Robert

1595 In Europe, Arduous Jobs Fall On First-Generation Migrants. But Later Generations Benefit From Improved Opportunities  Download PDF
by Vandenberghe, Vincent

1594 Telecare and Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Italian Municipalities  Download PDF
by Matteucci, Nicola & Picchio, Matteo & Santolini, Raffaella & Yebetchou Tchounkeu, Rostand Arland

1593 Who Works Longer Hours in Smart Cities?  Download PDF
by Cai, Zhengyu

1592 Austerity and asymmetries in the fiscal policies of the eurozone  Download PDF
by Bajo-Rubio, Oscar & Gómez-Plana, Antonio G.

1591 Self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium  Download PDF
by Berlinschi, Ruxanda & Verhaest, Dieter & Poelmans, Eline & Adriaenssens, Stef

1590 Beyond Higher Education: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment  Download PDF
by Li, Yanjun & Liu, Xinyan & Tanaka, Ryuichi

1589 Fade into the Shadows: Adjustments in Administrative Divisions and Regional Disparities  Download PDF
by Jie, Yangyang & Zhang, Peikang & Shen, Tiyan

1588 Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Affect Fertility Behaviors and Marriages? Evidence from India  Download PDF
by Bhattacharjee, Sandipa

1587 COVID-19 Lockdowns and Childbirth Delivery Care in India  Download PDF
by Bhattacharjee, Sandipa & Alam, Shamma Adeeb & Bose, Bijetri

1586 The role of business visits in fostering R&D investment  Download PDF
by Vivarelli, Marco & Piva, Mariacristina & Tani, Massimiliano

1585 Endogenous Depopulation And Economic Growth  Download PDF
by Bucci, Alberto & Prettner, Klaus

1584 Marginalized Agency or Agency at the Margins: Domestic Workers and Informality  Download PDF
by Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi & Lavee, Einat

1583 Estimating interaction effects with panel data  Download PDF
by Muris, Chris & Wacker, Konstantin M.

1582 Trust behaviour of sexual minorities: Evidence from a large-scale trust game experiment  Download PDF
by Berlingieri, Francesco & Kovacic, Matija & Stepanova, Elena

1581 Immigration, Partnership Dynamics and Welfare Persistence  Download PDF
by Andrén, Daniela & Andrén, Thomas & Kahanec, Martin

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Free Access to new articles 2025 in the Journal of Population Economics

The following recent 2025 articles in the Journal of Population Economics are FREE ACCESS within period April 1 – May 31, 2025:

Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences Jianxun Lyu

Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India Gaurav Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury, Binay Shankar

Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types? Christine Ho, Kathleen McGarry

High-speed internet and socioemotional wellbeing in adolescence and youth Karina Colombo, Elisa Failache, Martina Querejeta

Pension reforms, longer working horizons, and absence from work Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Lorenzo Rocco

The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men: 1970–2019  Ioannis Kospentaris, Leslie S. Stratton

The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences  Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi

 

Issue 1 March 2025 Issue 2 June 2025 Journal of Population Economics

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New GLO Discussion Papers of March 2025: Free to Access

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Nine discussion papers from March 2025 on the learning crisis in the United States, digital technologies, lasting effects of early-life adverse conditions, reproduction in Ming-Qing Chinese families, dental visits among eligible children, herding and the intention to vaccinate, geography of tourism firm spending, earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants, and internet and immigrants’ well-being.

New GLO Research DPs March 2025

1580 A Twin Transition or a policy flagship? Emergent constellations and dominant blocks in green and digital technologies  Download PDF
by Nelli, Linnea & Virgillito, Maria Enrica & Vivarelli, Marco

1579 Origins and developmental paths of medical conditions from mid-childhood to mid-adolescence in Australia: The early-life adverse conditions and lasting effects  Download PDF
by Lan Nguyen & Connelly, Luke B. & Birch, Stephen & Nguyen, Ha Trong

1578 Herding and the intention to vaccinate against COVID-19  Download PDF
by Epstein, Gil S. & Heizler, Odelia & Israeli, Osnat

1577 The hidden geography of tourism firm spending: tracking economic leakages with firm-to-firm transactions  Download PDF
by Srhoj, Stjepan & Mikulić, Josip

1576 Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data  Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Zajac, Tomasz & Tomaszewski, Wojtek & Mitrou, Francis

1575 Change in Dental Visits among Eligible Children under the Impact of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule in Australia  Download PDF
by Lan Nguyen & Connelly, Luke B. & Birch, Stephen & Ha Trong Nguyen

1574 The Learning Crisis in the United States Three Years After Covid-19  Download PDF
by Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Jakubowski, Maciej & Gajderowicz, Tomasz

1573 Home-country Internet and Immigrants’ Well-being  Download PDF
by Yarkin, Alexander

1572 Celebrating legacy: The intergenerational transmission of reproduction and human capital in Ming-Qing Chinese families  Download PDF
by Hu, Sijie

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New GLO Discussion Papers of February 2025: Free to Access

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Seventeen discussion papers from February 2025 on democracy in Africa, workplace democracy, assortative mating, violence and markets in the 14th century, math exposure and university performance, new technologies and employment, career break around childbirth, gender and household labor, immigrant labor, self-promotion, climate change and morbidity, health effects of nuclear tests, measuring climate risks, free trade and employment, learning about AI, and occupational skills and the gender wage gap in a developing economy.

New GLO Research DPs February 2025

1571 Internet Use and understanding democracy in Africa  Download PDF
by Maurel, Mathilde & Pernet, Thomas

1570 The impact of Next-Generation Broadband: Marriage rates and Assortative mating  Download PDF
by Marcén, Miriam & Morales, Marina

1569 Murder in the Marketplace  Download PDF
by Biagi, Victoria & Cardazzi, Alexander & Porreca, Zachary

1568 Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?  Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe

1567 Math Exposure And University Performance: Causal Evidence From Twins  Download PDF
by Bertocchi,Graziella & Bonacini, Luca & Joxhe, Majlinda & Pignataro, Giuseppe

1566 Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger effect: composite measures and heterogeneity by gender  Download PDF
by Adamecz, Anna & Ilieva, Radina & Shure, Nikki

1565 New technologies and employment: the state of the art  Download PDF
by Vivarelli, Marco & Arenas Díaz, Guillermo

1564 Career break around childbirth: the role of individual preferences and social norms  Download PDF
by Di Gioacchino, Debora & Ghignoni, Emanuela & Verashchagina, Alina

1563 The post-COVID-19 gender gap in the division of household labor  Download PDF
by Marcén, Miriam & Morales, Marina

1562 Under Pressure: Trade Competition from Low-Wage Countries and Demand for Immigrant Labor in Italy  Download PDF
by Caselli, Mauro & Traverso, Silvio

1561 Big-up yourself! The Return to Self-Promotion  Download PDF
by Mavisakalyan, Astghik & Palmer, Michael & Salazar, Silvia

1560 Heterogenous impacts of climate change on morbidity  Download PDF
by Hajdu, Tamás

1559 Long-Term Health Effects of Nuclear Tests: The Semipalatinsk Case  Download PDF
by Kuralbayeva, Karlygash & Rienzo, Cinzia & Wong, Po Yin & Guerrero-Serdan, Gaby

1558 Measuring Climate Risks: A New Multidimensional Index for Global Vulnerability and Resilience  Download PDF
by Edmonds, Heidi & Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna & Lovell, Julie & Lovell, C.A. Knox

1557 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Employment  Download PDF
by Chowdhury, Sumit & Marjit, Sugata & Das, Gouranga

1556 The Impact of Learning about AI Advancements on Trust  Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena & Angrisani, Marco

1555 Can occupational skills explain the gender wage gap in a developing economy? An unconditional quintile regression approach  Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

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Call for contributions: 51th EBES Conference – Rome, April 11-13, 2025. Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025.

The 51st EBES Conference – Rome will take place on April 11th, 12th, and 13th, 2025 in Rome, Italy. The conference will be hosted by John Cabot University with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities for presenting new research, exchanging information, and discussing current issues. Although we focus on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. 

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is March 10, 2025.

Featured image: david-kohler-VFRTXGw1VjU-unsplash

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than March 10, 2025.

For submission, please visit our website at
at https://ebesweb.org/51st-ebes-conference-rome/51st-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: April 11-13, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025
Reply-by: March 15, 2025 *
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2025
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: March 21, 2025
Announcement of the Program: March 27, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): March 21, 2025**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: July 15, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before March 10, 2025, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by March 21, 2025.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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January 2025: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

Eight Discussion Papers from January 2025 on service market liberalization, retirement decisions, wage subsidies for low-paid workers, loneliness, unions in Sub-Saharan Africa, labor adjustment costs, family-owned business, and economic literacy.

New GLO Research DPs January 2025

1554 Deregulation Derailed: Evidence from Services Markets Liberalization in Croatia  Download PDF
by Grajzl, Peter & Ćorić, Bruno & Srhoj, Stjepan

1553 Retirement Decisions in the Age of COVID-19 pandemic: Are Older Employees in Digital Occupations Working Longer?  Download PDF
by Gallo, Giovanni & Nagore García, Amparo

1552 Bridging the wage gap: A discussion of wage subsidies to low-paid workers and their costs in Italy  Download PDF
by Bonatti, Luigi & Lorenzetti, Lorenza Alexandra & Traverso, Silvio

1551 Social media use, loneliness and emotional distress among young people in Europe  Download PDF
by Cabeza Martínez, Begoña & D’Hombres, Beatrice & Kovacic, Matija

1550 Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies  Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe

1549 Productivity Labour Adjustment Costs. How do new hires and leavers (incl. retirees) compare?  Download PDF
by Vandenberghe, Vincent

1548 How Credit Constrained are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?  Download PDF
by Gourène, Grakolet & Brixiova Schwidrowski, Zuzana & Balcar, Jiří & Johnson Filipova, Lenka

1547 Enhancing Economic Literacy through Causal Diagrams  Download PDF
by Pavlov, Oleg V. & Smirnova, Natalia V. & Smirnova, Elena V.

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GLO Virtual Young Scholar (VirtYS) program session: Part II of 2023-24 Cohort final presentations on January 23, 2025, 1-2pm London time

GLO Virtual Young Scholar (VirtYS) program session: Part II of the 2023-24 Cohort final presentations on January 23, 2025, 1-2 pm London/UK time

To register asap for the Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vTP3qExMS9GlbbggasrPmw
You will receive a code for logging in after registration. 

Program

Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A.

  • Vincent Jerald Ramos (University of Southampton & GLO): Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves and Workers’ Bargaining Response
    Cluster lead & VirtYS Advisor: Prof. Uwe Jirjahn (Labor-management relations and quality of work)
  • Xinyan Liu (University of Tokyo & GLO): Institution Matters: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment
    Cluster lead: Prof. Niaz Assadullah (South-east Asia); VirtYS Advisor: Prof. Astghik Mavisakalyan 
  • Robina Kouser (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, & GLO): A New Insight into The Measurement of Household Well-Being for Vulnerable Economies: Evidence Using Pakistan’s Labor and Diet Data
    Cluster lead: Kompal Sinha (Development, Health, Inequality and Behavior); VirtYS Advisor: Suresh Chandra Babu

Note: Featured image Unsplash

Background information

Vincent Jerald Ramos

He is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, working on the demographic consequences of employment uncertainty. Concurrently, he is leading projects on concentration, representation, and bargaining in Philippine labor markets and the consequences of restrictive covenants in employment contracts. His work has been published in Work, Employment and Society, European Journal of Population, and Industrial Relations Journal, among others. He holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Hertie School Berlin and his current areas of interests are labor and economic demography and labor market institutions

Personal website: https://vincentrramos.github.io/

Presentation title: Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves and Workers’ Bargaining Response

Abstract: When statutory work and family entitlements are deemed insufficient, how do workers respond and compensate? Looking at some advanced economies points us to an idea – unionization may secure better conditions and higher benefit entitlements than what is statutorily guaranteed. However, the universality of this “success story” is far from established, particularly in contexts where unions play a less salient role and parental leave laws are perceived as weakly enforced, as is the case in many developing countries. In this paper, we construct a novel dataset of all private sector collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the Philippines from 2016-2021 to: (i) descriptively show the prevalence of paid parental leaves (PPLs) in CBAs; (ii) assess whether wage increase provisions crowd-out PPLs in CBAs; and (iii) analyze the causal effect of a 2019 maternity leave reform, which increased leave entitlement from 8 to 15 weeks, on the inclusion of PPLs in CBAs using two quasi-experimental identification strategies. Results suggest that around 65% of CBAs contain reinforcing provisions that merely restate statutory leave entitlements, while only 5% contain augmenting provisions that secure more leaves. Meanwhile, we find no evidence that either the inclusion of wage increase provisions or the 2019 reform has crowded out PPL provisions. On the contrary, we find a crowding-in pattern – wage increase provisions at the extensive and intensive margin are associated with a higher probability of PPL inclusion. Unpacking potential mechanisms, semi-structured interviews with union leaders and negotiators lend support to a bounded augmentation hypothesis such that where compliance and enforcement of family policy laws are perceived as weak, redundancy is as much of an objective as augmentation is in collective bargaining.

Xinyan Liu

She is a research associate at the University of Tokyo.  She is a GLO Virtual Young Scholar in the 2023-24 cohort. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. 

Her research interests span the fields of labor economics, education economics and crime economics. In particular, she focuses on three key areas: the influence of governmental policies on labor markets, education, and crime outcomes; the long-term effects of early childhood development; and the impact of policies on gender violence and its consequences. 

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/liuxinyan/home

Presentation title: Institution Matters: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment

Abstract: The prevalence of violence against children is a global concern, and addressing this urgent issue requires serious consideration. Based on the evidence from child trafficking, which is recognized as one of the most severe forms of childhood maltreatment, this paper proposes that the establishment of nearby educational institutions could have a substantial impact on reducing violence against children. Exploiting a quasi-experiment in China that exogenously led to the establishment of more campuses in 1999, this study investigates that the university establishments can lead to a decrease in the number of missing children. Our mechanism demonstrates that the university’s establishment leads to improved economic development, increased public safety, and changes in family behavior, resulting in a reduction in criminal activities. Our findings reveal the unintended effects on children following the implementation of social facilities, which can serve as a hidden means to combat violence against them.

Robina Kouser

She is a PhD scholar at the National University of Sciences and Technology. She is a GLO Virtual Young Scholar in the 2022-23 cohort. She is entitled to an AAEA Uma LELE mentor fellowship in 2023. Recently, she has been visiting Texas A&M University USA, as a visiting research fellow. She is working on food insecurity and the labor market in the context of households with persons with disability (PWD). Her areas of interest are the economics of inequality, labor market, and development economics.

Presentation Title: A New Insight into the Measurement of Household Well-Being for Vulnerable Economies: Evidence Using Pakistan’s Labor and Diet Data.

Abstract: Well-being is a multidimensional concept that includes various aspects of life, such as physical, emotional, and social well-being. Indexes like the Human Development Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index are popular global measures of well-being that use indicators like education, health, and living standards. Food insecurity and lack of decent work are two key factors that significantly contribute to the deprivation of household well-being. Lack of decent work leads to low wages, long working hours, unsafe work environments, and other factors that can negatively impact the workers’ physical and mental health. Similarly, food insecurity is associated with malnutrition, poor health outcomes, and a reduced quality of life. We construct a novel index to incorporate the dimensions of labor and diets. Using the nationally representative PSLM/HIES (2018–19) data, we build a multi-dimensional well-being index (MWBI) for different occupational groups in Pakistan. We use the Alkire and Foster methodology to find the deprivation of well-being across regions, provinces, sectors, PSCO-major classes, skill levels, and industries. Our findings reveal that 26 percent of the households perform poorly on multi-dimensional well-being. Rural areas are twice as deprived as urban areas. KPK province is the most deprived, while Punjab is the least. Female-headed households are worse off than male-headed households. Household heads employed in the agriculture sector, working in PSCO-class ‘elementary occupations,’ possessing skill level 1, or in the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry are the worst performers. Household heads employed in the non-agriculture sector (0.23), PSCO major group of clerical support workers (0.08), possessing skill level 4 (0.11), or in the industry of real estate are the least deprived. Our policy recommendations are to ensure wages exceed the minimum wage and promote skilled work. Focusing on the interplay of labor and diet is pivotal to promoting well-being in vulnerable economies.

In Memoriam Richard A. Easterlin, the giant scientist of population economics

GLO Fellow Richard A. Easterlin (University of Southern California), the intellectual giant of population economics, passed away at the age of 98 on December 16, 2024. Population economists will miss his spirit, inspiration, support, and friendship.

The Easterlin hypothesis is a theory of fertility preference formation, which suggests that fertility cycles depend on the changing aspirations of young people and intergenerational relative income across cohorts. The economic and social outcomes of a cohort are inversely correlated to its size. Easterlin attributes this to material aspirations formed during adolescence using parents’ economic outcomes as a benchmark. Large cohorts growing up in prosperous times develop high income aspirations, facing poorer prospects due to crowding in family, education, and labor markets. Larger cohorts often result in more siblings, thus diluting parental time and resources. Entry of large cohorts into the labor market leads to lower relative wages and higher unemployment. Consequently, such cohorts feel deprived and may exhibit lower birth rates, leading to smaller succeeding cohorts with lower material aspirations. This cohort size effect generates long-term fertility trends and shifts in labor and goods markets.

The Easterlin paradox explains why, contrary to expectations, happiness at the national level does not necessarily increase with income over time. While cross-sectional analyses within countries show that higher income correlates with greater happiness, time-series analyses reveal that economic growth does not necessarily increase happiness. Comparatively, when basic needs, such as clothing, nutrition, and housing are met, national income has little impact on happiness. Easterlin suggested that relative income and aspiration processes explain this paradox. Once basic needs are satisfied, further increases in absolute income do not enhance well-being, unless they improve one’s relative societal position. Additionally, a higher income often raises income and consumption aspirations.

Dick Easterlin has been an author (see (9) below) and long-term Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He has been the only person in the history of the journal who was honored by an interview (see (8) below with free PDF access). Over the decades, a huge amount of research related to his work has been published in the journal (see (6) and (7) as examples below).

Research by Richard Easterlin and Gary Becker were the major sources in my population economics class in my time as Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.

During my tenure as Founding Director of IZA, I was chairing the IZA award committee deciding to honor Easterlin with the IZA Prize in 2009 and was co-editing his Oxford University Press prize book (see (4) and (5) below). The official 2009 IZA Prize Ceremony took place on October 22 in Washington, DC, where I met him last time in person. I remember the moving celebrations well.

The Journal of Population Economics has established a special collection of work on Wellbeing and Happiness and the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics has an own section on Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness to publish work in his tradition (see (2) and (3) below).

In 2022, Dick Easterlin co-authored a chapter on The Easterlin Paradox in  the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (see (1) below with free PDF access). This paper was GLO Discussion Paper No. 743, 2020.  

With tremendous respect, we will always remember his path-breaking work and great personality.

Klaus F. Zimmermann

References:

Source: Richard Easterlin receives IZA Prize in Labor Economics. Journal of Population Economics (2010) 23:411–414. DOI 10.1007/s00148-009-0301-4, p. 411.

December 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

13 Discussion Papers from December 2024 on the learning crisis after Covid, sick leave, public higher education, business surveys, monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals, the value of safety, the quality of primary care, inequality in the economics profession, motherhood and leadership, Venezuelan refugees, minimum wages, locus of control, adverse childhood experiences, among others. 

New GLO Research DPs December 2024

1543 The Learning Crisis: Three Years After Covid-19  Download PDF
by Gajderowicz, Tomasz & Jakubowski, Maciej & Kennedy, Alec & Christrup Kjeldsen, Christian & Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Strietholt, Rolf

1542 Gender Differences in the Duration of Sick Leave: Economics or Biology  Download PDF
by Martín-Román, Ángel L. & Moral, Alfonso & Pinillos-Franco, Sara

1541 Patterns in State Funding of Public Higher Education: Demography, Ideology, Educational Attainment, and Trends  Download PDF
by Glomm, Gerhard & Raghav, Manu

1540 Invitation Messages for Business Surveys: A Multi-Armed Bandit Experiment  Download PDF
by Gaul, Johannes J. & Keusch, Florian & Rostam-Afschar, Davud & Simon, Thomas

1539 Better tracking SDG progress with fewer resources? A call for more innovative data uses  Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh & Carletto, Calogero & Jolliffe, Dean

1538 The value of safety or the value of the good?  Download PDF
by Järnberg, Linda Andersson & Andrén, Daniela & Börjesson, Maria & Hultkrantz, Lars & Rutström, Eva E. & Vimefall, Elin

1537 Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care  Download PDF
by Brüll, Eduard & Rostam-Afschar, Davud & Schlenker, Oliver

1536 Inequality in the Economics Profession  Download PDF
by Singhal, Karan & Sierminska, Eva
presented by Eva Sierminska in the GLO Virtual Seminar on December 5, 2024.

1535 Motherhood and Leadership: Exploring Employee Perceptions of Female Leaders in the Workplace  Download PDF
by Magnanelli, Barbara Sveva & Nasta, Luigi & Scicchitano, Sergio

1534 Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia  Download PDF
by Sarr, Ibrahima & Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Guzman Gutierrez, Carlos Santiago & Beltramo, Theresa & Verme, Paolo

1533 New answers to old questions: The effects of the minimum wage hike in Spain in 2019  Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & Cubells Enguídanos, Andrea & di Pietro, Filippo

1532 The (in)stability of locus of control: New insights from distributional effects of major life events  Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Schurer, Stefanie & Mitrou, Francis

1531 Adverse childhood experiences and social media use in adulthood. Evidence from a novel EU survey  Download PDF
by Kovacic, Matija & Orso, Cristina Elisa

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GLO: Happy Holidays 2024 & Season’s Greetings!

Best wishes and many thanks for all the support we have received in 2024! GLO

Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings!

Hotel Kempinski Corvinus Budapest Dec. 20, 2024

Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7. How to register & participate online

Register for the Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7. All program and registration details are here:

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2024-december-4-7-2024/

What to expect?

  • Dec 4: papers on robots, emerging technologies, the Gig economy, the Ukraine, migration & development. Online access to in-person meeting at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht.
  • Dec 5:
    – Term papers of the VirtYS Young Scholar Cohort 2023-2024;
    – The December GLO Virtual Seminar: Eva Sierminska on “Inequality in Economics as a Profession”.
    – The 2025 Kuznets Prize: Peter Eibich and Emma Xianhua Zai for
    Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision
    Journal of Population Economics JOPE (2024), 37, article 71. Peter Eibich will introduce this paper.
    – Highlights of JOPE articles 2024
    – Job Market Session
  • Dec 6:
    – Highlights of JOPE articles 2024
    – Job Market Sessions
  • Dec 7: Job Market Sessions

Looking forward to meeting you at the event.

November 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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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2025 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Peter Eibich and Xianhua Zai on the health consequences of grandparental childcare provision

Peter Eibich (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL & GLO) and Emma Xianhua Zai (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & GLO) receive the 2025 Kuznets Prize for their OPEN ACCESS article “Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision“, which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2024), 37, article 71. The annual prize of a year honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics in the previous year. 

The prize will be awarded in a public online event during the 2024 GLO – JOPE Global Conference on December 5, 2024 on 15:00 – 16.00 (3-4pm) CET Berlin. For the program and to register for the event see LINK.

More information about the Kuznets Prize & previous prize winners.


Biographical Abstracts

Peter Eibich is professor of economics at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. His research interests include the economics of aging and retirement, preventive care, and family economics. He has conducted substantial work on examining how the transition into retirement affects the lives of older adults, and how family ties affect health and labour market outcomes across generations. He has also extensively collaborated with researchers across the health and social sciences. Prof. Eibich holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg and has previously worked
at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research.

Xianhua Zai (Emma) is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health. Her research focuses on the intersections of aging, long-term care, health disparities, and health policy, with a strong emphasis on improving overall well-being. She utilizes large-scale secondary, registry, and administrative datasets to address critical questions that inform health policies and promote equitable care solutions. Her work spans areas such as aging and health, the design and impact of long-term care systems, and the social determinants of health. Dr. Zai holds a Ph.D from the Ohio State University.

Paper Abstract

This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents’ health in the United States. We use the sex ratio among older adults’ children as an instrument for grandparental childcare provision. Our instrument exploits that parents of daughters transition to grandparenthood earlier and invest more in their grandchildren than parents of sons. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that providing childcare is detrimental to grandparents’ physical functioning and subjective health. We show that these effects increase with the intensity of grandchild care provision, and the effects are driven primarily by grandmothers.

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October 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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

Daylight Saving Time Policies: Diversity and Impact

Europe decided to abolish daylight saving time in 2021, since the save energy impact is debatable; but so far concrete actions remained elusive. Here is some scientific evidence.

  • Balia, S., Depalo, D., Robone, S. (2023). Daylight Saving Time Policies Around the World: Diversity and Impact. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_404-1

Abstract: This chapter describes the regulations on daylight saving time (DST) in Europe and the United States, with an emphasis on their historical evolution, current policies, and possible future changes, namely the abolition of the two-phase time arrangement. The chapter also documents the highly heterogeneous perception of the policy among citizens, which is often supported more by individual beliefs than by scientific evidence. The scientific evidence on the causal impact of DST on various outcomes, such as energy consumption, human health, well-being, risky behaviors, and economic performance, is examined. The variability in results reported in the literature may be attributed to differences in the population of interest, the outcome under consideration, and the identification strategy adopted. The chapter concludes by suggesting possible extensions to the literature.

Daylight saving is under debate. What are the health and crime implications?

Based on natural experiments: Stratified demographic analyses for Indiana/USA indicate that daylight saving time had reduced mortality among males, females, and whites, but only among those aged 65 years and older. For Montevideo/Uruguay research identified a strong and statistically significant decrease in robbery. Two articles in the Journal of Population Economics, issue 3/2022, present these research findings.

  • Adam Cook
    Saving lives: the 2006 expansion of daylight saving in Indiana
    Readlink: https://rdcu.be/cQIFg

    Abstract: Using data provided by the Indiana State Department of Vital Statistics, this study examines the mortality effects of daylight saving time observance using the April 2006 expansion of daylight saving time in Indiana as a natural experiment. The expansion of daylight saving time to all Indiana counties lowered the average mortality rate in the treatment counties during the months in which daylight saving time was observed. Stratified demographic analyses indicate that daylight saving time reduced mortality among males, females, and whites, but only among those aged 65 years and older. Specific-cause analysis indicates that daylight saving time lowered mortality primarily via reduced cancer mortality. The results of this study suggest a novel solar UVB-vitamin D mechanism could be responsible for the reduction in treatment county mortality following the expansion of daylight saving time in Indiana.

  • Emiliano Tealde
    The unequal impact of natural light on crime
    Readlink: https://rdcu.be/cQIF9

    This paper studies the relationship between ambient light and criminal activity. I develop a Becker-style crime model that shows that a sudden increase in ambient light produces a larger reduction in crime in areas with less public lighting. Daylight savings time (DST), the natural experiment used, induces a sharp increase in natural light during crime-intense hours. Using geolocated data on crime and public lighting for the city of Montevideo in Uruguay, regression discontinuity estimates identify a strong and statistically significant decrease in robbery of 17%. The decrease is larger in poorly lit areas. Computing the level of public lighting at which DST has no effect on crime reduction, I identify the minimum level of public lighting that an area should target.

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Math Stereotypes of Parents Cause Student Misery! “Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Well-Being in China”: Paper now published OPEN ACCESS Online First in Kyklos

GLO Discussion Paper No 717 now published substantially revised in the academic journal Kyklos. International Review for Social Sciences:

Across the world, a well-known gender stereotype suggests that boys are better at learning mathematics than girls. Using rich data on Chinese school kids, the study demonstrates that this parental stereotype has a very strong and robust negative impact on BOTH girl and boy student wellbeing. The data also reveal that the stereotype is wrong.

Shuai Chu, Xiangquan Zeng & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2024), “Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China”,  OPEN ACCESS Online First: Kyklos. Online Version 25 October 2024. PDF. Free to access.

ABSTRACT

A prominent gender stereotype claims that “boys are better at learning mathematics than girls.” Confronted with such a parental attitude, how does this affect the well-being of 11- to 18-year-old students in Chinese middle schools? Although well-being has often been shown to be not much gender-diverse, the intergenerational consequences of such stereotypes are not well studied. Expecting too much from boys and too little from girls might damage self-esteem among school kids. Using large survey data covering districts all over China reveals that one-quarter of the parents agree with the math stereotype. It is shown that this has strong detrimental consequences for the offspring’s well-being. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not enjoying life, and sad with no male–female differences, whereas parental education does not matter for this transfer. Various robustness tests including other than math stereotypes and an IV analysis confirm the findings. Moderating such effects, which is in line with societal objectives in many countries, not only supports gender equality but also strengthens the mental health of children.

Call for Submissions: GLO Annual Online Conference Job Market Sessions (December 5-7, 2024) for North America and China

Planning to enter the job markets in North America or China in this season as a PhD student or postdoc? Why not present your work to advertise for you in special sessions organized during the forthcoming GLO Annual Online Conference ? (You can be currently based anywhere.)

NOTE: Program now available and accessable ONLINE on December 5-7, 2024: 36 job market candidates present their papers in 6 sessions. Register for the event for free here: GLO Annual Online Conference

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual online conference, which will be held from December 5-7, 2024. GLO Young Scholars Program invites job market candidates (PhD students or postdocs currently on the market in North America or China) to submit their research for presentation in dedicated job market sessions. This is a valuable opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure in a supportive and high-profile environment. A special Q&A mentoring session for the selected presenters will take place after the presentations.

Session Focus: The job market sessions will focus on research related to labor, demography, health, or human resources broadly defined. We welcome submissions from candidates in all related disciplines.

Submission Requirements: Proposals must include:

  • A paper or extended abstract of one’s Job Market Paper
  • A CV

Submissions can be made either via link or as an attachment.

Session Regions Preferences: The job market sessions will also be organized by region based on their preferences for the timing of their presentations and the market of potential employers:

  • North America
  • China

Please indicate your session preference in your submission. Presentations will be in English.

Submission Deadline: All submissions must be received by November 15th, 2024. Notification of decision will be sent on November 25th, 2024

Submission Process: Please click on the link below (or scan the QR code below) to submit your information and the required documents. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, feel free to contact Dr. Le Wang, Director of GLO Young Scholars Program.

https://shsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9M2nYtcv7A61t7U

Benefits of Being Selected as a Presenter:

  • Presenters are invited to provide a link to their personal websites which will be featured on the GLO website in the conference program, enhancing their portfolio’s visibility within the global research community.
  • Presenters will have access to a special Q&A mentoring session focused on the job market experience, where committee members and peers share insights and advice.
  • The online format minimizes costs, making participation accessible to candidates with limited financial resources. This encourages a diverse set of institutions to be represented.
  • Gain valuable experience presenting your research in a highly supportive environment, helping you refine your job market pitch and assess the progress of your work.
  • Presenters will be eligible for an invitation to join the prestigious GLO network as a research affiliate, providing further opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.

We look forward to your participation and to supporting the next generation of scholars in labor and related fields. Please complete the following form to submit your information and the required documents. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, feel free to contact Dr. Le Wang, Director of GLO Young Scholars Program.

Organizing Committee:

Le Wang (Chair) Virginia Tech

North America: Chanita Holmes (Virginia Tech), Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State), Fan Wang (Houston), Bingxiao Wu (Rugters)

China: Shihe Fu (Wuhan University), Xincheng Qiu (Peking University), LIqiu Zhao (Renmin University)

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The 49th EBES Conference – University of Piraeus Athens, Greece, October 16-18, 2024 has started.

The 49th EBES Conference – Athens takes place on October 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2024 in Athens, Greece. The conference is hosted by the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). GLO & EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann provides welcome remarks and moderates a session on publishing in research journals. Conference Program.

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Call for contributions: 50th EBES Conference – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, January 8-10, 2025. Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024.

The 50th EBES Conference – Lisbon will take place on January 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will be hosted by ISCTE-IUL Instituto Universitário de Lisboa with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities for presenting new research, exchanging information, and discussing current issues. Although we focus on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. 

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is November 30, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than November 30, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at
https://ebesweb.org/50th-ebes-conference-lisbon/50th-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS. 2023 Citescores of EAER and EABR are 6.9 (Q1) and 6.0 (Q1), respectively. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences. EABR’s 2023 Impact Factor is 4.0 (Q1) and EAER’s 2023 IF is 2.5 (Q2). Furthermore, the qualified papers from the conference will be published in the regular issues of Singapore Economic Review (SSCI & Scopus) after a fast-track review.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fee) after a fast peer review process. This is indexed by Scopus. This will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in its Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29th (Vol. 1), 30th, 33rd, and 34th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Subsequent conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: January 8-10, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024
Reply-by: December 10, 2024*
Registration Deadline: December 15, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: December 16, 2024
Announcement of the Program: December 22, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): December 20, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: March 16, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before November 30, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by December 20, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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Call for Papers: The Australian Gender Economics Workshop (6‒7 February 2025), Wollongong, Australia. Submission deadline is 7 October 2024!

Call for PapersAustralian Gender Economics Workshop AGEW 2025 | 6‒7 February 2025 | Wollongong, Australia.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR PAPERS & ABSTRACTS IS 7 October 2024!
To register: 
https://uow.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNHfcZUBMWLVIhM

The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.

#AGEW2025 is accepting papers for consideration. The workshop has a broad understanding of “gender economics”. Full papers or extended abstracts (about 2000 words) are acceptable.

NOTE: From 2025, AGEW will feature special sessions on the Economics of Violence Against Women in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). The CEVAW-GLO-JOPE sessions are organised in the context of the “Sexual and Domestic Violence” collection of articles in the Journal of Population Economics. Please indicate in your submission if you would like your paper to be considered for presentation in these special sessions as part of the workshop, noting that submission to the “Sexual and Domestic Violence” collection of articles in the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) post-workshop is optional and papers that are submitted to the collection will undergo a regular refereeing process of the journal. For questions on CEVAW-GLO-JOPE sessions, please email JOPE Associate Editor Astghik Mavisakalyan at astghik.mavisakalyan@curtin.edu.au.

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September 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

14 Discussion Papers from September 2024 on employee representation, Chinagender 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

Journal of Population Economics appoints four new Associate Editors.

With immediate effect, the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) has appointed four new Associate Editors:

Emma Aguila, University of Southern California, USA
Viola Angelini, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 
Janice Compton, University of Manitoba, Canada
Olga Malkova, University of California, Irvine, USA

The four new JOPE Editors will support editorial decisions in areas like healthy ageing, grand-parenting, wellbeing, gender and family issues, among many other topics. Welcome in the team!

August 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.


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

Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden. GLO DP published & available free access.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 1400 now published Open Access:

Christopher F. Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2024), “Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden”. 
Industrial and Labor Relations ReviewPDF of published version.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00197939241261640

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Abstract:

This article examines the wage earnings of refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer–employee data from 1990 onward, approximately 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum are compared to a matched sample of native-born workers. Employing recentered influence function (RIF) quantile regressions to wage earnings for the period 2011–2015, the occupational-task-based Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach shows that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This overperformance is attributable to female refugee immigrants. Given their characteristics, refugee immigrant females perform better than native females across all occupational tasks studied, including non-routine cognitive tasks. A notable similarity of the wage premium exists among various refugee groups, suggesting that cultural differences and the length of time spent in the host country do not have a major impact.

Keywords: #refugees, wage earnings gap, #occupations, #gender, #employer–employee data, #job-tasks, recentered influence function (#RIF) quantile regressions

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Media coverage:

Swedish daily news magazine Dagens Nyheter & and the economics magazine Ekonomisk Debatt:
https://www.dn.se/debatt/flyktingars-hogre-loner-visar-integrationens-kraft/
https://www.nationalekonomi.se/artikel/hur-konkurrenskraftiga-ar-flyktingar-pa-svensk-arbetsmarknad/

July 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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

2024-25 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS). Deadline for Applications: September 16, 2024.

Global Labor Organization (GLO) invites interested young scholars to apply for participation in the 2024-25 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS). This is the sixth cohort of the successful GLO venture to support career developments of young researchers. It also provides a unique opportunity to interact with the large and very active GLO global research network.

Application deadline: September, 2024, 5 pm GMT.
For general information see GLO VirtYS Website.

2024-25 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)

About GLO: The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is a global, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that has no institutional position. The GLO functions as an international network and virtual platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the general public interested in scientific research and its policy and societal implications on global labor markets, demographic challenges and human resources. These topics are defined broadly in line with its Mission to embrace the global diversity of labor markets, institutions, and policy challenges, covering advanced economies as well as transition and less developed countries.

Program’s Goal: In the spirit of the GLO Mission, the GLO VirtYS program’s goal is to contribute to the development of the future generation of researchers, who are committed to the creation of policy-relevant research, are well equipped to work in collaboration with policy makers and other stakeholders, and adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. This goal is achieved through the process of working on a specific research paper within the duration of the program, which is 10 months starting from October 14, 2024.

Program’s Advisory Board:

  • Jan van Ours, Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam, Netherlands, & Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Marie Claire Villeval, Research Professor, CNRS GATE, France
  • Marco Vivarelli, Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Director of the Department of Economic Policy
  • Le Wang, Chong K. Liew Chair and Professor & President’s Associates Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus, Bonn University, UNU-MERIT & President of GLO

Program’s Activities:

  • Virtual kick-off meeting of all the participants and Thematic Cluster advisors, who will be appointed by the participating Cluster leads to match closely participants’ research interests.
  • One-to-one activities with the Thematic Cluster Advisor will be agreed upon at the beginning of the scholarship period in an Individual Research Plan. These activities at a minimum shall include 2-3 virtual consultations, 1 review round of the completed research work and a discussion of the amendments (if needed) to follow up.
  • Provide a virtual platform for the GLO VirtYS program participants to present their findings and receive feedback from their peers and the GLO wider community.
  • The scholarship will conclude in June 2024 followed by the presentations by the scholars within the GLO-wide seminar series in September 2024, after which the GLO Management Board will make a decision on whether to extend an invitation to the graduate of the GLO Virtual Scholar Program to join the organization as a GLO Fellow, based on the recommendation from their Thematic Cluster Advisors and evaluation of the GLO VirtYS Advisory Board.

Research proposals are invited related to any of the GLO Research and Policy Clusters: see Thematic Clusters I and Thematic Clusters II

Benefits to the GLO VYSP Scholars:

  • No fees: Participation is free for the scholars.
  • All GLO VirtYS program participants will become GLO Affiliates, if they are not already, and receive a GLO Bio page.
  • GLO VirtYS program participants will be listed on the www.glabor.org website of the program.
  • Feedback on their research from leading researchers in the area of their interest.
  • Networking opportunities with researchers from other countries within the same area and beyond
  • (Priority) access to GLO activities.
  • Interactions with the scholars of the cohort, program’s alumni, and the future cohorts.
  • Opportunity to promote own research via GLO channels.
  • Completed research paper ready for submission to the GLO Discussion Paper series.
  • Possibility of promotion to GLO Fellow after exceptional performance.

Eligibility criteria:

  • Applicant must be either currently enrolled in a doctoral program or be within 2 years after graduation as evidenced by the letter from the degree awarding institution or a degree certificate.
  • Applicant must be at an advanced stage of the analysis of a specific research question within the corresponding GLO Thematic Cluster to which he/she is applying as evidenced by the submitted draft.
  • Applicant must be supported by a letter of endorsement from either one of the GLO Fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions.

How to apply: all application materials have to be submitted online. If there are any questions, please write to o.nizalova@kent.ac.uk.

Selection procedure:

The GLO Virtual Young Scholars will be selected by a Scientific Selection Committee consisting of the GLO VirtYS Program Director, GLO thematic cluster leads participating in the current year, and a member of the GLO Management Board.

The results of the selection will be posted on the GLO site www.glabor.org by October 1, 2024. Scholars will be notified via email. In the 2024-25 academic year we expect to select 5-7 scholars.

The final research paper should be submitted by August 15, 2025, by 5 pm GMT.

Upon completion of the program and based on the quality of the produced research paper, some of the GLO VirtYS programme graduates may be invited to become GLO Fellows and their paper accepted as a GLO Discussion Paper.

Evaluation criteria for applications:

  1. Research excellence (50 points)
  2. Policy relevance of the research question in a local and/or global context (25 points)
  3. Potential for capacity development (25 points) (preference will be given to the applicants for which the GLO Young Scholars Program can bring the highest capacity development, compared to what the applicant would have achieved without being a GLO Young Scholar)

Application procedure:

Many applicants apply in the last days before the submission deadline. To avoid last minute problems, we ask applicants to apply in advance. Applications received after the deadline or applications that do not meet the requirements set out below will not be accepted.

To apply please complete the online application form with three attachments:

1. Research proposal (maximum 2 pages including references, single-spaced, font size 12) should include the following information:

• Formulation of the problem/ research question.
• Research methodology (data and empirical approach).
• (Potential) Practical/Policy implications.
• Reference list.

2. 2-page CV

3. Transcript from the doctoral program or doctoral degree certificate

4. Letter of endorsement for the candidate and the research proposal from either one of the GLO fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions reflecting on the potential of the candidate to benefit from the Program and the merits of the research proposal.

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Call for contributions: 49th EBES Conference – University of Piraeus Athens, Greece. October 16-18, 2024. Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024.

The 49th EBES Conference – Athens will take place on October 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2024 in Athens, Greece. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is September 16, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than September 8, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at
https://ebesweb.org/49th-ebes-conference-athens/49th-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: October 16-18, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 8, 2024
Reply-by: September 15, 2024*
Registration Deadline: September 19, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: September 19, 2024
Announcement of the Program: September 26, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): December 9, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: September 19, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before September 8, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by September 19, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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June 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 13 Discussion Papers on unemployed youth, performance pay, minority stereotype, eroding locus of control, religion, eye of the cyclone, racial disparities, Covid-19 in Iran and poverty, among other issues.

New Research DPs June 2024

1451 Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market  Download PDF
by Dejemeppe, Muriel & Delpierre, Matthieu & Pourtois, Mathilde

1450 Variable Pay and Work Hours: Does Performance Pay Reduce the Gender Time Gap?  Download PDF
by Baktash, Mehrzad B. & Heywood, John S. & Jirjahn, Uwe

1449 Do beliefs in the model minority stereotype reduce attention to inequality that adversely affects Asian Americans?  Download PDF
by Chen, Shuai & Powdthavee, Nattavudh & Wiese, Juliane

1448 Natural disasters, home damage, and the eroding locus of control  Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Mitrou, Francis

1447 Religion and institutions  Download PDF
by Mladjan, Mrdjan M. & Nikolova, Elena & Ponomarenko, Olga

1446 Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction  Download PDF
by Ha Trong Nguyen & Mitrou, Francis

1445 Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda  Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh & Carletto, Calogero & Gourlay, Sydney & Abanokova, Kseniya

1444 Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence  Download PDF
by Veselov, Dmitry & Yarkin, Alexander

1443 Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan  Download PDF
by Wadho, Waqar & Chaudhry, Azam

1442 Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition for Older Americans: The Importance of Educational Quality and Experiences  Download PDF
by Lin, Zhuoer & Ye, Justin & Allore, Heather & Gill, Thomas M. & Chen, Xi

1441 Effects of Individual Incentive Reforms in the Public Sector: The Case of Teachers  Download PDF
by Martins, Pedro S. & Ferreira, João R.

1440 The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran  Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad & Do, Minh N. N.

1439 Consumer Debt and Poverty: the Default Risk Gap  Download PDF
by Bertoletti, Lucía & Borraz, Fernando & Sanroman, Graciela

Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap. New paper open access in the Journal of Population Economics.

Newly published in the Journal of Population Economics. Video of paper presentation now available.

Kritikos, A.S., Maliranta, M., Nippala, V. , Nurmi, S.  
Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap. 
Journal of Population Economics 37, 52 (2024).
OPEN ACCESS. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01030-x

Video of paper presentation by Alexander Kritikos in the GLO Virtual Seminar on June 6, 2024.

WATCH THE VIDEO
Video of the event

ABSTRACT

We examine how the gender of business owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is—starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12%—two to three percentage points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in male-owned firms. Results are robust to how the wage is measured, as well as to various further robustness checks. More importantly, we find substantial differences between industries. While, for instance, in the manufacturing sector, the gender of the owner plays no role in the gender pay gap, in several service sector industries, like ICT or business services, no or a negligible gender pay gap can be found, but only when firms are led by female business owners. Businesses with male ownership maintain a gender pay gap of around 10% also in the latter industries. With increasing firm size, the influence of the gender of the owner, however, fades. In large firms, it seems that others—firm managers—determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms.

June is Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ Community. Economic Research on the Topic.

June is Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community.

The Journal of Population Economics promotes a related research topic for academic studies in its “Sexuality & LGBT Issues” article collection. Zimmermann, K. (ed) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, provides a number of research review chapters on the topic (see also).

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Recent Journal of Population Economics articles include:

Recent Handbook articles include:

  • Marcén, M., Morales, M. (2022). Same-sex Marriage/Partnership. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_267-1
  • Martell, M.E., Roncolato, L. (2022). Progress in Understanding the Economics of Same-Sex Households and the Promise of Inclusivity. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_273-1
  • Weichselbaumer, D. (2022). Discrimination Due to Sexual Orientation. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_301-1
  • Drydakis, N. (2020). Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life, and Job Satisfaction. In: Zimmermann, K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_33-1
  • Harvey, B. (2020). Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Later Life. In: Zimmermann, K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_38-1
  • Leppel, K. (2020). Labor Force Status of Transgender Individuals. In: Zimmermann, K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_83-2
  • Meads, C. (2020). Health and Well-being Among Sexual Minority People. In: Zimmermann, K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_36-1

May 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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

Naples-Italy. Global SITES-GLO Conference on September 11-13, 2024. Call for Contributions. Deadline May 31.

The IX Annual SITES Conference of the Italian Association of Development Economists is organized jointly with GLO, and in collaboration with the CRISEI Institute (Department of Business and Economics, University of Naples Parthenope) in Naples, Italy. The conference is hosted by the University of Naples Parthenope on 11-13 September 2024. Submission deadline: May 31, 2024. Conference Website. Program available.

Conference topic:
Social Inclusion, Migration, and Global Inequalities

The conference aims to provide a forum for development and labor economists to identify the roots of social exclusion and discrimination and to discuss policies to sustain inclusive growth and reduce global inequalities.

The international SITES-GLO conference 2024 invites the submission of full papers, long abstracts, or complete sessions (three or four papers) related to the topics of the conference and the general themes of development and labor economics.

Submissions online (deadline May 31): https://www.conftool.net/sites-glo-2024/
More information and links: Conference Website.

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7th IESR-GLO Joint Workshop on Aging Societies 2024 Starts Today.

The Seventh IESR-GLO Joint Workshop takes place on May 16 – May 17, 2024 in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), the event investigates Aging Societies: Healthy Aging, Grandparenting, and Parent-Adult Offspring Relationships; topics JOPE is strongly interested to publish top research articles. The (in-person only) workshop intends to explore the research potentials.

For the full program, conference report and related literature see the GLO Website Workshop Page.

April 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 17 Discussion Papers on responses to cyclones, automation, teleworkable jobs, eating behaviors, female entrepreneurs, corporate social responsibility, migrants and the natives, migration and consumption, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, world inequality database, intimate partner abuse, and solar cycles, among other issues.

New Research DPs April 2024

1426 Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia  Download PDF
by Nguyen, Ha Trong & Mitrou, Francis

1425 Automation and flexible labor contracts: Firm-level evidence from Italy  Download PDF
by Traverso, Silvio & Vatiero, Massimiliano & Zaninotto, Enrico

1424 Assessing Long-Run Price Convergence in Retailing  Download PDF
by Borraz, Fernando & Zipitría, Leandro

1423 A neglected determinant of eating behaviors: Relative age  Download PDF
by Fumarco, Luca & Hartmann, Sven A. & Principe, Francesco

1422 Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap  Download PDF
by Kritikos, Alexander S. & Maliranta, Mika & Nippala, Veera & Nurmi, Satu

1421 Corporate Social Responsibility: A theory of the firm revisited with environmental issues  Download PDF
by Buccella, Domenico & Fanti, Luciano & Gori, Luca

1420 Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers’ origin  Download PDF
by Fays, Valentine & Mahy, Benoît & Rycx, François

1419 Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts  Download PDF
by Giuliano, Romina & Mahy, Benoît & Rycx, François & Vermeylen, Guillaume

1418 Labour Market Performance of Immigrants: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data  Download PDF
by Kaya, Ezgi

1417 Wealth Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from the World Inequality Database  Download PDF
by Steenbrink, Rachel & Skali, Ahmed

1416 Gini who? The relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction  Download PDF
by Marchesi, Daniele & Nikolova, Milena & Angelini, Viola

1415 Did COVID-19 (permanently) raise the demand for “teleworkable” jobs?  Download PDF
by Bratti, Massimiliano & Brunetti, Irene & Corvasce, Alessandro & Maida, Agata & Ricci, Andrea

1414 Does redistribution hurt growth? An Empirical Assessment of the Redistribution-Growth Relationship in the European Union  Download PDF
by Christl, Michael & De Poli, Silvia & Köppl-Turyna, Monika

1413 Intimate Partner Abuse and Child Health  Download PDF
by Bharati, Tushar & Mavisakalyan, Astghik & Vu, Loan

1412 Migration and Consumption  Download PDF
by Misuraca, Roberta & Zimmermann, Klaus F.

1411 Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward  Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Jolliffe, Dean & Serajuddin, Umar & Stacy, Brian

1410 Solar cycles and time allocation of children and adolescents  Download PDF
by Nguyen, Ha Trong & Zubrick, Stephen R. & Mitrou, Francis

Call for contributions: 48th EBES Conference – Istanbul/Turkey July 4-6, 2024. Submission deadline: June 4, 2024

The 48th EBES Conference – Istanbul will take place on July 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2024 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The conference will be hosted by the Istanbul Ticaret University with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is June 4, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than June 4, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at at
https://ebesweb.org/48th-ebes-conference-istanbul/48th-ebes-conference-istanbul/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: July 4-6, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 4, 2024
Reply-by: June 6, 2024*
Registration Deadline: June 14, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: June 15, 2024
Announcement of the Program: June 23, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): June 15, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: October 15, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before June 4, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by June 15, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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Starting today: April 18-20 EBES 47 & GLO Berlin 2024 at FOM University of Applied Sciences with support of the Journal of Population Economics.

Back to Berlin for EBES 47 and GLO Berlin 2024 to organize a strong academic conference in collaboration with FOM University of Applied Sciences and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) on April 18-20. For the final GLO – JOPE program see GLO Berlin 2024 and the full joint program see EBES 47 Berlin.

EBES & GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann, who is also Honorary Professor at the Free University Berlin.

March 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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.

February 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

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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January 2024: New GLO Discussion Papers. Free to Access.

New research from the GLO network free to access: 14 Discussion Papers on issues including gender gap, loneliness, poverty dynamics, premarital migration, involuntary part-time employment, Great Chinese Famine, school closures under Covid, corporate globalization, math and gender, gender quotas, intergenerational mobility, urbanization and political elites, among others.

1379 The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work  Download PDF
by Marcén, Miriam & Morales, Marina

1378 Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate  Download PDF
by Casabianca, Elizabeth & Kovacic, Matija

1377 Union structure and product quality differentiation  Download PDF
by Meccheri, Nicola & Vergari, Cecilia

1376 Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17  Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Raju, Dhushyanth & Tanaka, Tomomi & Abanokova, Kseniya

1375 Men’s premarital migration and marriage payments: Evidence from Indonesia  Download PDF
by Champeaux, Hugues & Gautrain, Elsa & Marazyan, Karine

1374 Navigating the Precarious Path: Understanding the Dualisation of the Italian Labour Market through the Lens of Involuntary Part-Time Employment  Download PDF
by Cuccu, Liliana & Royuela, Vicente & Scicchitano, Sergio

1373 Early Life Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) and the Health of Older Adults in China: A Meta-Analysis (2008-2023)  Download PDF
by Shen, Chi & Chen, Xi

1372 COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA  Download PDF
by Jakubowski, Maciej & Gajderowicz, Tomasz & Patrinos, Harry

1371 Digital Mobility of Financial Capital Across Different Time Zones, Factor Prices and Sectoral Composition  Download PDF
by Mandal, Biswajit

1370 Citizenship, math and gender: Exploring immigrant students’ choice of majors  Download PDF
by Murat, Marina

1369 Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation  Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe

1368 Gender Quotas, Board Diversity and Spillover Effects. Evidence from Italian Banks  Download PDF
by Del Prete, Silvia & Papini, Giulio & Tonello, Marco

1367 Intergenerational (im)mobility in Pakistan: Is the social elevator broken?  Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria & Sadiq, Maqsood & Scicchitano, Sergio

1366 Urbanization and the Change in Political Elites  Download PDF
by Franck, Raphaël & Gay, Victor

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.

Program GLO-JOPE Online Workshop February 26-27 2024

Since January 2024, the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) follows Continuous Article Publishing: accepted articles are published immediately and included in the current issue of the journal. The journal is committed to speed and high quality. JOPE continuously organizes workshops presenting fresh publications in online workshops. This is a unique opportunity to follow exciting new research and come into contact with the authors.

The GLO-JOPE Online Workshop on February 26-27, 2024 will follow this tradition. Please find below the papers to be presented and the links to register for the meeting. The papers are all in production and you will find links to access them freely (Open Access) or to read them online as soon as they are published.

Please register in advance as soon as possible. You will receive a confirmation afterwards; and a reminder with the link close to the meeting again. The entire workshop has three parts, and you will need to register for all 3 parts separately (links below next to the parts).

Time allocation is 15 min per paper, 10 min presentation, 5 min Q&A. So use your chances to interact with the authors.

All sessions will be recorded and the videos will be made available on the GLO website here.
All articles of Vol. 37, Issue 1, 2024 are here asa online published: Issue 1, 2024.

For abstracts of all papers currently in production see: LINK

Follow the evolution & ranking of JOPE papers within the JOPE Google Scholar Citations Ranking.

JOPE Editors present next to Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann:

PART I: Feb 26; 3-5 pm CET. Chair: Milena Nikolova (JOPE Editor)
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VIDEO OF PART I

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Happiness & Wellbeing

3:00-3:15 pm CET. David G Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
The Female Happiness Paradox
OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-00981-5

3:15-3:30 pm CET. Enghin Atalay
A Twenty-First Century of Solitude? Time Alone and Together in the United States
https://rdcu.be/dxVs6

3:30-3:45 pm CET. Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur, Carsten Schröder
Teleworking and Life Satisfaction in Germany during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
https://rdcu.be/dxMle

3:45-4:00 pm CET. Jeehoon Han, Caspar Kaiser
Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades
https://rdcu.be/dyoiv

4:15-4:30 pm CET. Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Eline Moens, Joey Wuyts, Eva Derous
I Won’t Make the Same Mistake Again: Burnout History and Job Preferences
https://rdcu.be/dw5Kg

Labor & Family

4:30-4:45 pm CET. Jiyoon Kim     
The Effects of Paid Family Leave – Does It Help Fathers’ Health, Too?

OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-00994-0

4:45-5:00 pm CET. Joanna Lahey, Roberto Mosquera
Age and Hiring for High School Graduate Hispanics in the United States
https://rdcu.be/dyMpO

5:00-5:15 pm CET. Stanislao Maldonado
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: Long-term evidence from a double matching design

https://rdcu.be/dxMkH

PART II: Feb 27; 9:00-10:30 am CET. Chair: Kompal Sinha (JOPE Editor)
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Migration (9:00-10:00 am CET)

9:00-9:15 am CET. Guanchun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu,Jinyu Yang, Yanren Zhang
Labor Contract Law and Inventor Mobility: Evidence from China

https://rdcu.be/dxMlp

9:15-9:30 am CET. Olivier Charlot, Claire Naiditch, Radu Vranceanu
Smuggling of Forced Migrants to Europe: A Matching Model
https://rdcu.be/dyMok

9:30-9:45 am CET. Federico Maggio, Carlo Caporali
The Impact of Police Violence on Migration: Evidence from Venezuela
https://rdcu.be/dzlzD

9:45 BREAK

Historical Demography (10:00-10:30 am CET)

10:00-10:15 am CET. Xuechao Qian 
Revolutionized Life: Long-term Effects of Childhood Exposure to Persecution on Human Capital and Marital Sorting

10:15-10:30 am CET. Nikos Benos, Stelios Karagiannis, Sofia Tsitou
Geography, Landownership Inequality and Literacy: Historical Evidence from Greek Regions
OPEN ACCESS.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-024-01002-1

PART III: Feb 27; 3-5 pm CET  Chair: Terra McKinnish (JOPE Editor)
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Elderly Care

3:00-3:15 pm CET. Julien Bergeot
Care for Elderly Parents: Do Children Cooperate?

https://rdcu.be/dxMls

Violence

3:15-3:30 pm CET. Veronica Grembi, Anna Rosso, Emilia Barili
Domestic Violence Perception and Gender Stereotypes
OPEN ACCESS: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-024-00986-0

3:30-3:45 pm CET. Riccardo Ciacci
Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden

Health

3:45-4:00 pm CET. Li Zhou; Zongzhi Liu; Xi Tian 
Threat Beyond the Border: Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Tests and China’s Rural Migration
https://rdcu.be/dw5J6

4:00-4:15 pm CET. Fabian Duarte, Valentina Paredes, Cristobal Bennett, Isabel Poblete
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health
https://rdcu.be/dxVts

4:15-4:30 pm CET. Davide Furceri, Pietro Pizzuto, Khatereh Yarveisi
The Effect of Pandemic Crises on Fertility

https://rdcu.be/dw5Kf

4:30-4:45 pm CET. Jose Ignacio García-Pérez, Manuel Serrano-Alarcon, Judit Vall-Castello
Long-term unemployment subsidies and middle-aged disadvantaged workers’ health
OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01000-3

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