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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Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings!

Hotel Kempinski Corvinus Budapest Dec. 20, 2024

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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.

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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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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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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

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• 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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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.

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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 15^th, 2024. Notification of decision will be sent on November 25^th, 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 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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#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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14 Discussion Papers from September 2024 on employee representation, China, gender issues, COVID-19, social vulnerability, intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills, real-time happiness index, health workforce performance, North-South convergence, women in Afghanistan, subjective well-being, network abroad and culture, workplace injuries, intimate partner violence, among other issues.

New GLO Research DPs September 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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!

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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

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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 Review. PDF 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/

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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.

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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:

• Deal, C., Greenberg, S. & Gonzales, G. Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services. J Popul Econ 37, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01031-w

• Ciacci, R., Sansone, D. The impact of sodomy law repeals on crime. J Popul Econ 36, 2519–2548 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00953-1

• Drydakis, N. Sexual orientation and earnings: a meta-analysis 2012–2020. J Popul Econ 35, 409–440 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00862-1

• Marcén, M., Morales, M. The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the USA. J Popul Econ 35, 441–469 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00842-5

• Chang, S. The sex ratio and global sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era. J Popul Econ 34, 401–430 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00773-7

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

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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

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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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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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK FOR PART I: CLOSED

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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VIDEO OF PART II

ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK FOR PART II: CLOSED

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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VIDEO OF PART III

ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK FOR PART III: CLOSED

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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Call for contributed papers or sessions for the GLO Berlin 2024 Conference on April 18-20. Contributions are invited to broadly defined labor, population, family, health, crime, conflict and other human resources issues.

The event is jointly organized with EBES 47 at FOM University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. GLO organizes a separate program with separate registration and paper call. Participants of EBES 47 Berlin and GLO Berlin 2024 will have access to all program parts of both conferences. All program parts can be followed either in-person or online.

The event is HYBRID: Presentations on the first two days will be in-person only, and on the last day only online. Online attendees can follow all the program parts of the conference on all three days.

“I invite you to visit lovely Berlin for a productive research conference! The city is a vibrant place offering many surprising features. For instance, it is known for its extensive waterways, including rivers, canals, and lakes.“

Submissions can be (i) individual contributions with abstract only or full papers with abstract, or (ii) full sessions with six contributions consisting of six abstracts and possibly papers. Providing full papers increases the chance of acceptance.

Individual contributions submitter have to decide whether they want to be considered for (i) a regular contributed session or (ii) a Journal of Population Economics Express Evaluation Session (JOPE-EES).

JOPE-EES: Submissions for this category require a full paper and abstract. Those rejected for this session will still be considered for regular contributed sessions. If accepted for JOPE-EES, authors have to register for the conference either for the in-person or online version of the conference; they also have to submit their paper to JOPE while registering to the conference after the acceptance decision. These submissions will pass the desk rejection phase of the journal and receive an express evaluation within six weeks after the conference. Topics related to JOPE’s collections are particularly welcome, see https://link.springer.com/journal/148/collections

Program Committee: Sergio Scicchitano (John Cabot University, Rome, Italy; Chair )
Guido Cozzi (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland); Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Syracuse University, USA); Andrea Fracasso (Trento University, Italy); Oded Galor (Brown University, USA); Hilary Ingham (Lancaster University, UK); Jungmin Lee (Seoul National University, South-Korea); Ilaria Mariotti (Polytechnic of Milan); Terra McKinnish (University of Colorado); Valentina Meliciani (Luiss University); Silvia Mendolia (Turin University, Italy); Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Matloob Piracha (University of Kent, UK); Vicente Royuela (University of Barcelona, Spain); Kompal Sinha (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia); Cristina Tealdi (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK); Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore– Piacenza, Italy); Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO, UNU-MERIT & FU Berlin, The Netherlands, Germany)

The Program (joint with EBES) will include an evening event, speeches and contributions by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin (Vice President, EBES & Istanbul Medeniyet University), Alessio Brown (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht), Martin Kahanec (Central European University), Christos Kollias (University of Thessaly), Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin & Potsdam University), Lucie Merkle (Berlin, Free State of Bavaria), Dorothea Schäfer (DIW Berlin and Jönköping University), Sergio Scicchitano (John Cabot University, Rome, Chair GLO Program), Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin, UNU-MERIT & GLO/EBES), Manuela Zipperling, (FOM University of Applied Sciences, Berlin)

Keynote speech: Martin Kahanec Rebuilding Ukraine in Higher Education

Submissions through:  https://editorialexpress.com/conference/GLOBerlin2024/
Submission open since January 24, 2024 – no submission fee
Deadline: March 6, 2024. CLOSED.
Open until midnight on US east coast time = midnight CET Berlin + 6 hours.

Decisions were communicated.
Conference registration see ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS below.

Participation fees: To be paid upon conference registration (see Organizational Details).

Regular: in-person € 500, online € 350
JOPE-EES: in-person € 600, online € 450
Fees for in-person participants include coffee breaks and lunch during the conference as well as the conference reception on April 18, 2024.

To participate with no paper please pay the regular fee (in-person € 500, online € 350) as explained in “Organizational Details” and send a registration email to Office@glabor.org with the subject “GLO-Berlin-2024-No-Paper”.

Fees for all participants provide access to the full joint program of EBES 47 & GLO Berlin 2024 either online or in person. JOPE-EES authors will receive the express journal service.

ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Conference venue: FOM University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Bismarckstraße 107, 10625 Berlin

Questions to Office@glabor.org

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Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper Submission is February 29, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin
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 February 29, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at at
https://ebesweb.org/47th-ebes-onference/berlin-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: April 18-20, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024
Reply-by: March 4, 2024*
Registration Deadline: March 15, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: March 16, 2024
Announcement of the Program: March 29, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): March 16, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: July 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 February 29, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by March 16, 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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1365 Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Effective since January 1, 2024, JOPE has transitioned to a Continuous Article Publishing (CAP) model. Under this new approach, all accepted articles will be directly published in the ongoing issue, bringing an end to the previous backlog policy. To facilitate this shift, JOPE published all available articles last year, successfully clearing the backlog. Notably, of the 90 articles included in JOPE issues in 2023, only 45 were accepted in the past year, and the other 45 were from previous years.

This policy change addresses the confusion surrounding the publication status of online articles, now widely recognized as published. When included in a journal issue with delay because of a backlog, this created two publication dates in the past practice.

Additionally, the policy change reflects JOPE’s commitment to expeditious publishing. The decision to organize the online GLO – JOPE workshops aligns with JOPE’s effective communication strategy, aimed at disseminating significant research findings in time to a broader audience within academia and society.

Articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Population Economics.

1. David G Blanchflower, Alex Bryson: The Female Happiness Paradox

Using data across countries and over time we show that women have worse mental health than men in negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used – anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger – and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives, such as democracy, the economy, the state of education and health services. They are also less satisfied in the moment in terms of peace and calm, cheerfulness, feeling active, vigorous, fresh and rested. However, prior evidence on gender differences in happiness and life satisfaction is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model specification and the inclusion of controls, especially marital status. We now find strong evidence that males have higher levels of both happiness and life satisfaction in recent years even before the onset of pandemic. As in the past women continue to have worse mental health. A detailed analysis of several data files, with various metrics, for the UK confirms that men now are happier than women and the size of the effect is not trivial.          

2. Jeehoon Han, Caspar Kaiser: Time Use and Happiness: US Evidence Across three Decades

We use diary data from representative samples from the United States to examine determinants and historical trends in time-weighted happiness. To do so, we combine fine-grained information on self-reported happiness at the activity level with data on individuals’ time use. We conceptually distinguish time-weighted happiness from evaluative measures of wellbeing and provide evidence of the validity and distinctiveness of this measure. Although timeweighted happiness is largely uncorrelated with economic variables like unemployment and income, it is predictive of several health outcomes, and shares many other determinants with evaluative wellbeing. We illustrate the potential use of time-weighted happiness by assessing historical trends in the gender wellbeing gap. For the largest part of the period between 1985 and 2021, women’s time-weighted happiness improved significantly relative to men’s. This is in stark contrast to prominent findings from previous work. However, our recent data from 2021 indicates that about half of women’s gains since the 1980s were lost during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hence, as previously shown for several other outcomes, women appear to have been disproportionally affected by the pandemic. Our results are replicable in UK data, and robust to alternative assumptions about respondents’ scale use.

3. Enghin Atalay: A Twenty-First Century of Solitude? Time Alone and Together in the United States

This paper explores trends in time alone and with others in the United States. Since 2003, Americans have increasingly spent their free time alone on leisure at home and have decreasingly spent their free time with individuals from other households. These trends are more pronounced for non-White individuals, for males, for the less educated, and for individuals from lower-income households. Survey respondents who spend a large fraction of their free time alone report lower subjective well-being. As a result, differential trends in time alone suggest that between-group subjective wellbeing inequality may be increasing more quickly than previous research has reported.

4. Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Eline Moens, Joey Wuyts, Eva Derous: I Won’t Make the Same Mistake Again: Burnout History and Job Preferences

The burnout literature has focused on the determinants of burnout, whereas its careers consequences remain understudied. Therefore, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. We link these differences in preferences with (1) perceptions of job demands and resources, as well as (2) the weighting of such perceptions. To this end, a sample of 582 employees varying in their history of burnout judged job offers with manipulated characteristics in terms of their willingness to apply as well as perceived job demands and resources. We find that recently burned-out employees appreciate possibilities to telework and fixed feedback relatively more, while being relatively less attracted to learning opportunities. These findings can be partially explained by differences in the jobs’ perceived resources.

5. 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

We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity, reflecting gender-role asymmetries: lower life satisfaction is found only for unmarried men and for women with school-age children. The negative effect for women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping strategies.

6. Davide Furceri, Pietro Pizzuto, Khatereh Yarveisi: The Effect of Pandemic Crises on Fertility

This paper examines the dynamic effects of pandemic crises on fertility rates for a large, unbalanced sample of 182 developed and developing countries during the period 1996-2019. We find that major pandemics are associated with significant and persistent declines in fertility rates of about 2 percent, on average. These effects are significantly larger for pandemics characterized by a very large number of confirmed cases relative to the population (up to 6½ percent) and by deep recessions (up to 5 percent). In addition, the effects are larger in advanced economies (up to 5 percent) and for younger women, on average.

7. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Chunbei Wang: Asian Entrepreneurship in the Coronavirus Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a deleterious impact on the world economy. Studies have documented the disproportional impact of the pandemic on minorities, immigrants, and business owners in the United States. In this study, we use Current Population Survey monthly data spanning from January 2014 through December 2021 to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Asian entrepreneurship. We show that the pandemic disproportionally hurt Asian entrepreneurship, particularly among immigrants, up until the end of 2020. A detailed analysis of Asian business dynamics reveals a substantial increase in self-employment exits during the first year of the pandemic. We fail to find convincing evidence of differential industry/job-type concentration, individual preferences, majority-minority disparities, narrower clientele, or differential access to government support as primary drivers for such patterns. Instead, we find suggestive evidence of discrimination playing a non-negligible role that subsided in 2021, coinciding with the rollout of vaccines.

8. Riccardo Ciacci: Banning the Purchase of Sex Increases Cases of Rape: Evidence from Sweden

This paper leverages the timing of a ban on the purchase of sex to assess its impact on rape offenses. Relying on Swedish high-frequency data from 1997 to 2014, I find that the ban increases the number of rapes by around 44%–62%. The results are robust to several econometric specifications that exploit different identification assumptions. The increase reflects a boost in completed rapes both in the short- and long run. However, it is not accompanied by a decrease in the number of pimps. Taken together, the empirical evidence hints at the notion that the rise in rapes is not connected to the supply of prostitution but rather to changes in the demand for prostitution due to the ban. The results here have the opposite sign but larger magnitudes in absolute value than results in the literature on the decriminalization of prostitution.

9. Veronica Grembi, Anna Rosso, Emilia Barili: Domestic Violence Perception and Gender Stereotypes

Using a survey of more than 4,500 Italian women, we address the link between gender stereotypes and perceptions of domestic violence. We define a new measure of stereotypes at the individual level and show that women with stronger stereotypes are less likely to state that violence is common in their area of residence and are more likely to classify physical violence as less severe than privacy breaches. This ranking is associated with a victim-blaming mindset among respondents with stronger stereotypes, who are also more li(e.g., economic distress) than to personal characteristics of abusers (e.g., psychological issues) and to advise a hypothetical victim not to react to violence.

10. Stanislao Maldonado: Empowering Women through Multifaceted Interventions: Long-term Evidence from a Double Matching Design

Empowering women is a policy goal that has received a lot of interest from policy-makers in the developing world in recent years, yet little is known about effective ways to promote it sustainably. Most existing interventions fail to address the multidimensional nature of empowerment. Using a double matching design to construct the sampling frame and to estimate causal effects, I evaluate the long-term impact of a multifaceted policy intervention designed to improve women’s empowerment in the Atlantic region in Colombia. This intervention provided information about women’s rights, soft skills and vocational training, seed capital, and mentoring simultaneously. I find that this intervention has mixed results: there are improvements in incomes and other economic dimensions along with large political and social capital effects, but limited or null impacts on women’s rights knowledge and control over one’s body. Using a list experiment, I even find an increase in the likelihood of intra-household violence. The results highlight the importance of addressing the multidimensional nature of women’s empowerment in policy innovations designed to foster it and incorporating men in these efforts.

11. Jinglin Wen: Female Chief Officers and Crime: Evidence from England and Wales

I study the impact of the appointment of female chief police officers on crimes typically committed against females: sexual and rape offenses. Evidence suggests that adding more female chief officers leads to a statistically significant increase in documented sexual crimes in England and Wales. Yet, this rise is good news because it is due not to a rise in actual crimes committed or improved police recording practices but, rather, to more reporting of sexual crimes. I also find that appointing a female chief officer is associated with a reduction of around 1.1 homicides against women, which is equivalent to 21 percent of the mean value. Exploration of mechanisms suggests that the reduction may reflect an increase in policing resources devoted to women’s protection.

12. Li Zhou; Zongzhi Liu; Xi Tian: Threat Beyond the Border: Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Tests and China’s Rural Migration

Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six nuclear weapons tests near its border with China, which clearly posed an existential threat to China. Utilizing data from a representative sample of rural households and adopting a quasi-experimental framework, this study analyzes the effects of human-made nuclear threats on the coping strategies of China’s rural households living on the border with North Korea. Our results show that nuclear tests have sizable causal effects on different aspects of non-farm employment and land rented out by rural residents in the border area of China. It is particularly noteworthy to emphasize that the results of this study demonstrate that, due to the human-made radiation risk resulting from North Korean nuclear tests, households in the border regions of China bordering North Korea increase labor out migration and land lease out. Multiple robustness tests consistently support this conclusion. Next, the paper attempts to identify various mechanisms behind these effects, such as the nuclear risk’s effect on the village’s economic viability, ultimately leading households to move out. We also find that the impact of moving away from rural areas due to nuclear tests is more pronounced for households with higher human capital, higher income, and a lower proportion of elderly family members. In conclusion, as rural households respond to nuclear threats by migrating out, North Korea’s nuclear tests exacerbate the phenomenon of rural hollowing in China’s border regions.

13. Xuechao Qian: Revolutionized Life: Long-term Effects of Childhood Exposure to Persecution on Human Capital and Marital Sorting

This paper investigates the effects of early-life exposure to persecution risk on human capital formation and marital sorting, while also analyzing how these effects are influenced by the timing of the exposure during early life. Utilizing the context of China’s “class struggle” period, which targeted various classes including landlords, capitalists, and intellectuals, this study demonstrates that individuals who experienced persecution risk during their childhood exhibit lower formal education attainment, reduced cognitive skills, and lower earnings. They are more likely to form marriages with individuals from classes that were previously favored by the regime but have comparatively lower human capital outcomes. Moreover, the study highlights that the most substantial and enduring impacts occur when the exposure to class struggle persecution risk takes place during early childhood.

14. Olivier Charlot, Claire Naiditch, Radu Vranceanu: Smuggling of Forced Migrants to Europe: A Matching Model

This paper develops a matching model to analyze the smuggling market for forced migrants, building on the empirical evidence related to the smuggling of migrants from the Horn of Africa and the Middle East to Europe in the last decade. Comparative statics for the equilibrium solution reveal that coercion-based measures targeting the smugglers reduce the number of irregular migrants and smugglers at the expense of migrants’ overall welfare. Slightly increasing legal migration opportunities has the interesting feature of reducing irregular flows, without deteriorating migrants’ welfare or increasing the total number of migrants. An extremely restrictive asylum policy has similar effects in terms of the flows of irregular migrants as a quite loose one, with the largest flows of irregular migrants occurring under a “middle-range” policy.

15. Federico Maggio, Carlo Caporali: The Impact of Police Violence on Migration: Evidence from Venezuela

This study unveils the causal effect of authoritative violence on individuals’ likelihood to migrate. Specifically, we examine the migration patterns of Venezuelans during the 2017-2018 political and economic crisis. We draw insights from regional-level data on civilian casualties caused by security forces, along with information extracted from the ENCOVI-2018 survey data that captures migration flows. The estimates rely on travel time from the capital city as an instrumental variable and are robust to the inclusion of several household and socio-economic regional-level characteristics. The findings strongly suggest that authoritative violence is a significant non-economic push factor for international migration. Moreover, additional evidence indicates that this type of violence influences the skill composition of migrants, especially in the context of South-to-South migration flows.

16. Guanchun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu,Jinyu Yang, Yanren Zhang: Labor Contract Law and Inventor Mobility: Evidence from China

This paper investigates the causal effect of employment protection on inventor mobility. Taking the enactment of China’s Labor Contract Law in 2008 as a quasi-natural experiment, our difference-in-differences estimate utilizes two-dimensional variations: firm ownership (i.e., SOEs vs. non-SOEs) and year (i.e., before and after 2008). Using combined data on patent applications filed at the State Intellectual Property Office of China and listed manufacturing companies over 2004–2012, we find that the law plays a sizeable positive role in reducing the likelihood of inventor mobility. This effect is more pronounced for firms with higher labor intensity, stricter law enforcement, higher innovation dependence, lower R&D team stability, and inventors that work outside the core of R&D networks. Further, we provide consistent evidence for two plausible mechanisms for the positive effect: limiting the ability of employers to unfairly dismiss inventors, and substituting low-skilled workers with inventors. In addition, the law causes firms to obtain more high-quality patents and reduces bankruptcy risk. Overall, our findings shed new light on the economic effects of labor protection in a typical emerging market.

17. Jiyoon Kim: The Effects of Paid Family Leave – Does It Help Fathers’ Health, Too?

I investigate the effects of California’s paid family leave (CA-PFL) program, the first statemandated paid leave available to both mothers and fathers in the U.S. I examine the effects on the overall health of mothers and fathers during two distinct periods: health immediately around childbirth, and health following childbirth. To do so, I leverage the variation in the timing of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) health care topical module relative to the exact year and month of childbirth. I find that CA-PFL has improved mothers’ health during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth. This improvement in health is accompanied by a reduced likelihood of mothers not working or taking unpaid work absence. Some improvements manifest in fathers’ health too during the same period. However, I observe that fathers report more instances of feeling sick, starting around five months after childbirth. Further analysis reveals that the share of fathers not working or taking unpaid work absence rises temporarily when the leave period ends. Understanding the effects on fathers’ health and leave utilization is pivotal to evaluating the program’s overall benefits and potential unintended consequences given the growing focus on enhancing equal access to paid leave for both mothers and fathers.

18. Fabian Duarte, Valentina Paredes, Cristobal Bennett, Isabel Poblete: Impact of an Extension of Maternity Leave on Infant Health

We study the effect of a 12-week maternity leave extension in Chile on the health of infants between 6 and 12 months old. Using unique administrative sick leave data for working women enrolled in the private health insurance system who gave birth between 2011 and 2013, we estimate the effect of this extension on the number of paid sick days taken by the mother due to her child being ill. We find that extending maternity leave improved infant health and decreased the number of sick days by 6.43 (0.18sd) days on average. Additionally, we show that mothers with extended maternity leave take their infant to the pediatrician less often than mothers without the extended leave. Our results are consistent with a decrease in daycare attendance, which decreases exposure to communicable diseases.

19. Julien Bergeot: Care for Elderly Parents: Do Children Cooperate?

Do children cooperate when they decide to provide informal care to their elderly parent? This paper assesses whether a cooperative or non-cooperative model drives the caregiving decisions of children. Focusing on families with two children and one single parent, I use use data from a survey of older adults in France to compare the predictive power of the two models. Results suggest that children are more likely to behave according to a non-cooperative model, and that a cooperative model overestimates the level of care received by the parents. I construct an indicator of the degree of non-cooperativeness between two children and explore the determinants of non-cooperation. Finally, I show that this indicator is positively correlated with the number of unmet needs the parent has. This latter result suggests that the current level of informal care provided to a parent appears to suffer from a public good problem and the lack of cooperativeness between children has detrimental consequences for the parent.

20. Trine Engh Vattø, Kjersti Misje Østbakken: Do Means-tested Childcare Subsidies Discourage Work?

We examine how means-tested childcare subsidies affect parental labor supply. Using the introduction of reduced childcare prices for low-income families in Norway in 2015, we show that these subsidies may have the unintended effect of discouraging work rather than promoting employment. First, structural labor supply simulations suggest that a negative parental labor supply effect dominates, ex ante. Ex post, we find a small and insignificant effect of means-tested childcare subsidies on parental labor supply in the reform year. We find no statistically significant bunching around the income limits in subsequent years, but we do find negative labor supply effects in subsequent expansions of the reform. Our results suggest that in a context where both parental employment and participation in formal childcare are high, means-tested childcare subsidies may have unintended parental labor supply effects.

21. Caroline Hall, Inés Hardoy, Kristine von Simson: Policies for Young Adults with Reduced Work Capacity: Labour Market Impact in Sweden and Norway

The rising numbers of young people with disability pension concerns many advanced economies. We present results from a comparative analysis of the neighbouring countries Sweden and Norway on the impacts of differing policy mixes aimed at enhancing the employability of the work disabled. Using rich longitudinal data, we follow unemployed young adults (ages 2529) with work-impairment up to four years after they became unemployed to investigate the effect of different types of labour market policies. Our results indicate that, despite differences in programme composition and strategies, there are surprisingly small country differences in treatment effect patterns and signs of estimated impacts. In line with previous studies, we find strong lock-in effects of both workplace-related programmes and training/educational programmes. After participation, workplace-related programmes about double the likelihood of entering regular employment or education. Participating in training courses also increases this likelihood, but effect sizes are smaller.

22. Jose Ignacio García-Pérez, Manuel Serrano Alarcon, Judit Vall-Castello: Long-term Unemployment Subsidies and Middle-aged Disadvantaged Workers’ Health

This paper examines the labour market and health effects of a non-contributory long-term unemployment (LTU) benefit targeted at middle-aged disadvantaged workers. To do so, we exploit a Spanish reform introduced in July 2012 that increased the age eligibility threshold to receive the benefit from 52 to 55. Our results show that men who were eligible for the benefit experience a reduction in injury hospitalizations by 12.9% as well as a 2 percentage points drop in the probability of a mental health diagnosis. None of the results are significant for women. We document two factors that explain the gender differences: the labour market impact of the reform is stronger for men, and eligible men are concentrated in more physically demanding sectors, like construction. Importantly, we also find evidence of a program substitution effect between LTU and partial disability benefits. Our results highlight the role of long-term unemployment benefits as a protecting device for the (physical and mental) health of middle-aged, low-educated workers who are in a disadvantaged position in the labour market.

23. Jindong Pang, Shulin Shen: Do Subways Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers?

This paper evaluates the labor market effects of subway systems on low-skilled workers. A simple model of labor supply predicts that access to subway services can decrease transportation costs and improve labor force participation, but have ambiguous effects on the intensive margin of labor market outcomes. Empirical estimates from US cities show that a ten percent expansion in subway miles increases the labor force participation of low-skilled individuals without a car by eight percentage points. However, subway expansions, have no significant effect on the labor force participation of low-skilled individuals who own automobiles or on high-skilled workers. In contrast, expansions of light rails and buses have no significant effect on the labor market outcomes of low-skilled individuals. Improved subway services do not affect wages, hours worked, and commuting times, suggesting the labor market benefits of subways mainly lie in the extensive margin of labor supply.

24. Joanna Lahey, Roberto Mosquera: Age and Hiring for High School Graduate Hispanics in the United States

The intersection of age with ethnicity is understudied, particularly for labor force outcomes. We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments with different populations. We find that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and non-Hispanic high school graduates do not change across the lifecycle. Moving to a laboratory setting, we provided participants with randomized resumes for a clerical position that are, on average, equivalent except for name and age. In all experiments, participants treated applicants with Hispanic and non-Hispanic names the same across the lifecycle. These findings are in stark contrast to the differences and patterns across the lifecycle for corresponding Black workers and job applicants. We argue that these null results may explain the much smaller literature on labor market discrimination against less-educated Hispanic workers.

25. Nikos Benos, Stelios Karagiannis, Sofia Tsitou: Geography, Landownership Inequality and Literacy: Historical Evidence from Greek Regions

Our work sheds light on the joint role of human capital and geography during the early stages of the transition from stagnation to growth in early 20th century Greece. We uncover a robust association between geography and literacy. We also show that geography is correlated with land inequality and thus establish that land distribution is a channel through which geography influences literacy. Finally, the impact of geography on human capital formation weakens with industrialization. Our work contributes to the literature on geography and human capital in the transition from stagnation to growth since Greece was at the early stages of the industrial era during the study period.

26. Evelyn Skoy: Household Impacts of Child Health Shocks

Women bear a disproportionate share of the unpaid labor within a household, which contributes to gender gaps in life and relationship satisfaction. This paper examines how an exogenous shock that increases the workload within the household impacts the burden of unpaid labor. By exploiting a rich longitudinal dataset from Australia, I estimate the gendered impacts to parental workload and stress, life and relationship satisfaction, and household division of labor when parents have a child with a significant health shock. I find evidence that women experience a decrease in their satisfaction with parenting and life satisfaction. These results are most pronounced for households where the mother is less active in the labor market or less educated. Point estimates indicate that men do not experience the same negative effects.

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