The Project

With a core basis in labor economics, human resources, demography, and econometrics, it will provide a large and complete summary and evaluation of the scientific state of the art. Some chapters have a policy focus or a multidisciplinary perspective. Long survey chapters on core knowledge are combined with shorter frontier research chapters. See below for a listing of all section topics with links to the published and requested materials.

This innovative research handbook contains 30 sections with about 20 chapters per section and an average of 20 pages in the range of 5,000 – 15,000 words per (10-30 pages) article. Each chapter is freshly produced, discussed, and evaluated for quality, and immediately published on the Springer Nature Handbook website, and will/can be regularly updated. A hardcover version of the handbook is also scheduled for 2027.

Over 400 chapters are already available online and 100 more will be available soon: List of published papers. The articles are divided into topical sections for orientation, as shown below.

Springer is part of Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading global research, educational, and professional publishers, created in 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education, and Springer Science+Business Media. The Handbook project is further supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

What is Expected?

• Expected is an academic review and evaluation of the state-of-the-art of the literature, NOT a research article, focusing on all global knowledge with no focus on a particular country or region. The survey article can be written alone or with co-author(s) within a period of about 6 months.
• Quality control is taken by section editors, anonymous reviewers, and/or workshop discussions of draft papers.
• Technical instructions for authors are available HERE.
• Chapter proposals are invited and should contain title, abstract, link to CV or website revealing details of academic qualifications for the purpose. We look for senior authors at best in the suggested fields of study.
• Submit by email to office@glabor.org with the subject title “Handbook Proposal – Section Name”.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: Collection of articles for the first edition of the Handbook closes in 2026. The entire project will be published as hardcover in 2027. If you have a good suggestion, there might be still a slot available. Contact office@glabor.org

What Topic to Submit?

• Submissions are possible for all sections below; when you click the section title, you will find lists of published articles as well as those titles in preparation and further suggestions for chapters. If you have any alternatives, please feel free to suggest them. SUBMIT indicates that suggestions are particularly welcome.

Handbook Part I

• Aging SUBMIT
• Behavioral Economics
• Conflict SUBMIT
• Covid-19
• Crime SUBMIT
• Development and Labor SUBMIT
• Discrimination SUBMIT
• Education; schooling; human capital
• Entrepreneurship SUBMIT
• Environment SUBMIT
• Family Economics
• Gender
• Household Economics
• Health
• Inequality and Poverty SUBMIT

Handbook Part II

• Institutions and International Organizations SUBMIT
• Macroeconomics of Human Resources
• Methods and Data SUBMIT
• Migration
• Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management SUBMIT
• Political Economy of Human Resources SUBMIT
• Program and Policy Evaluations SUBMIT
• Regional Labor, Urban Economics and Economic Geography
• Religion
• Risky Behaviors SUBMIT
• Sexuality SUBMIT
• Technological Changes and the Labor Market
• Wages SUBMIT
• Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness
• Worker representation, labor-management relations; labor standards

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December 5, 2025

6:00 – 8:00 CET Berlin = 13:00 – 15:00 Beijing time IESR (China) Invited Session 
— Chair: Xue Sen (IESR & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Juno (Xiangyan) Qiu (IESR)

• Hanming Fang, Jiayin Hu, Miao Yu (Peking University)
  Maternity Leave Extensions and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform
• James Kai-sing Kung, Wenbing Wu (University of Melbourne)
  The Rise of the Chinese Clan
• Yunbo Liu, Zexuan Wang (Minzu University of China), Zesen Zhang, Jue Bai, Xiaoyang Ye
  Occupational Cognition and Employment Choices in Manufacturing: Evidence from the Information Intervention Experiment with Vocational College Students
• Xiaogang Li, Ze Song (Nankai University), Puyang Sun, Hong Zou
  Stagnation and Differentiation in Growth: Quality Effects of Consumer Goods for Chinese Households

To participate online in this session, you need to prior register here: LINK

What other to expect at the conference:

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature
• New Book Presentation on the Death at Booroomba

Curious? Study the full program of the conference and register here: LINK

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What to expect:

• Follow online both all in-person (Dec 4-5) & online (Dec 3-5) sessions in Bonn/Germany and around the globe.
• Recruiters: Follow the GLO Job Market sessions for ASIA & EUROPE (Dec 3) and NORTH AMERICA (Dec 5).
• Presentations from the GLO VirtYS Young Scholar mentoring program on Dec 3.
• A large number of Invited & Contributed Research Paper Sessions (Dec 3-5) including some on EUROPE & AFRICA.
• Focused research paper sessions in regional time-zones on NORTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA & OCEANIA (“Sydney”) (Dec 4-5)
• The monthly GLO Research Seminar (Dec 4).
• The Conference Keynote Speech (Dec 4).
• The JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony & Speech (Dec 4).
• The expert Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
• Presentation: Publishing with Springer Nature
• New Book Presentation on the Death at Booroomba

Curious? Study the full program here:

https://glabor.org/program-details-glo-bonn-2025/

Please register to follow online all parts of the program.

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The GLO VirtYS Alumi Invited Session 2025 as part of the GLO-JOPE Conference 2025 is scheduled for December 3, 2025 and will soon be announced as part of the general conference program HERE.

The program is directed by Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & Director VirtYS).

GLO is proud to announce another strong cohort of VirtYS Scholars:

• 2025-26 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Mohammad Al-Masaeid, Claudio Annibali, Fenet Jima Bedaso, Andrea Carrazana-Rivera, Minali Grover, Md Rabiul Karim, Narbadeshwar Mishra, Aristide Merlin Ngono, Tomas Sarkozi, Michael Windsor

The 2025-26 GLO VirtYS Cohort Advisors are: 

• Professor Petri Böckerman, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Professor Xi Chen, School of Public Health, Yale University, USA.
• Professor Isabelle Chort, Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, France
• Professor Nick Drydakis, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Professor John Heywood,  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
• Professor Caroline Krafft, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA
• Dr Olga Popova, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies IOS, Regensburg, Germany
• Professor Punarjit Roychowdhury, Sniv Nadar University, India
• Professor Anisha Sharma, Ashoka University, India

GLO is grateful for the great service provided by these established researchers.

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New GLO Discussion Papers of September 2025

1672 Property Rights and Violence: Evidence from the End of the American West – Download PDF
by Petach, Luke

1671 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Cognitive Decline among Older Americans – Download PDF
by Da, Linlin & Jin, Zhezheng & Xu, Qianhui & Renzi-Hammond, Lisa M. & Chen, Zhuo & Khan, M. Mahmud & Rajbhandari-Thapa, Janani & Chen, Xi & Wu, Bei & Song, Suhang

1670 AI Business Applications Training and Business Outcomes: An Inclusive Intervention for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1669 The impact of citizenship on intermarriage: evidence from Italy – Download PDF
by Balsimelli Ghelli, Bianca & Gallo, Giovanni

1668 The Formation of AI Capital in Higher Education: Enhancing Students’ Academic Performance and Employment Rates – Download PDF
by Drydakis, Nick

1667 Meaningful Work: An Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Perspective – Download PDF
by Lysova, Evgenia I. & Fletcher, Luke

1666 Early Effects of Cognitive-Impairment Friendly Community on Health Care Utilization in China: Evidence from Administrative Data – Download PDF
by Ai, Jingyi & Chen, Xi & Feng, Jin & Xie, Yufei

1665 Quality, Safety, and Disparities of AI Chatbots in Managing Chronic Diseases: Experimental Evidence – Download PDF
by Si, Yafei & Meng, Yurun & Chen, Xi & An, Ruopeng & Mao, Limin & Li, Bingqin & Bateman, Hazel & Zhang, Han & Fan, Hongbin & Zu, Jiaqi & Gong, Shaoqing & Zhou, Zhongliang & Miao, Yudong & Fan, Xiaojing & Chen, Gang

1664 Factories and Fertility: The Impact of Manufacturing Growth on Son Preference – Download PDF
by Bhukta, Rikhia

1663 Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental Evidence from Ukraine – Download PDF
by Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys & Gresham, James & Lemos, Renata & Patrinos, Harry A. & Rodriguez-Ramirez, Rony

1662 Banning the bottle, shifting the balance: Impact of Reduced Alcohol Consumption on Women’s Agency – Download PDF
by Mookerjee, Mehreen & Ojha, Manini & Roy, Sanket & Yadav, Kartik

1661 The Whole and Its Parts: Stoic Ethics in Simple Coordination Games – Download PDF
by Ponthiere, Gregory

1660 The Heterosis Effect in Human Capital and Wealth Accumulation – Download PDF
by Zhu, Chen & Böckerman, Petri

1659 The Impact of Paid Paternity Leave Reforms on Divorce Rates in Europe – Download PDF
by Morales, Marina

1658 The Native Mobility Response to Rising Refugees and Migrants in Turkey – Download PDF
by Bilge, Nur & Naiditch, Claire

1657 The economics of meaningful work: A scoping review – Download PDF
by Hendriks, Martijn & Cnossen, Femke

1656 Empowering Women Digitally: A Randomised Controlled Trial on Digital Financial Literacy and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Pakistan – Download PDF
by Andlib, Zubaria

These are our authors:

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Final: PROGRAM PDF (Call is closed). See also: LINK

The 8th Renmin University of China – GLO Conference provides a platform for researchers working on topics related to Micro Population Economics and Human Relations: Personality, Subjective Beliefs, Feelings, Norms, Preferences, Stereotypes, and AI Adaption.

Beyond this focus, submissions on topics such as migration and other demographic issues, household and family economics, health and well-being, education and human capital, environment, labor market discrimination, and labor market policies are also considered.

The event is jointly organized by the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and supported by the Journal of Population Economics. It will take place on November 1-2, 2025 at Renmin University of China, Beijing.

There are no conference fees. Travel and accommodation need to be covered and arranged by participants. The School of Labor and Human Resources will offer catered lunch and refreshments throughout the event and conference dinner on November 1.

Keynote speakers
Suqin Ge (Virginia Tech and GLO)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and GLO)

Submissions
You are invited to submit papers or extended abstracts by September 20, 2025 at renmin-glo@ruc.edu.cn.
Selected participants will be notified by September 30, 2025.
To join the GLO, please visit: https://glabor.org/join-the-glo/

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Associate Editors

• Rufei Guo, Wuhan University, China
  
• Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, York University, Canada
  
• Massimiliano Tani, UNSW Canberra, Australia
  
• Sunčica Vujic, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  
• Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Mannheim and ZEW, Germany    

Advisory Board

Richard Layard, London School of Economics, UK
His advice will further strengthen JOPE’s “Wellbeing and Happiness Collection“.

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JOPE invites contributions to its collection on Statistics & Measurement of Population Economics. This collection fosters research on the production of meaningful and innovative measurement capturing important demographic and wellbeing concepts to support economic analysis and policy evaluations.

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– Chen, S., Wang, M. & Zhang, D. Air pollution, labor productivity, and individual consumption. J Popul Econ 38, 63 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01117-z . Sharable link to read freely: https://rdcu.be/eyPMK

– Kerndler, M., Prskawetz, A. & Sánchez-Romero, M. A life-cycle model of risk-taking on the job. J Popul Econ 38, 62 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01118-y OPEN ACCESS

– Buonomo, A., Capecchi, S., Di Iorio, F. et al. Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?. J Popul Econ 38, 61
(2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01116-0  OPEN ACCESS

– Bekhtiar, K. Robotization, internal migration and rural decline. J Popul Econ 38, 60 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01109-z     OPEN ACCESS

– Strittmatter, A., Wunsch, C. Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited. J Popul Econ 38, 59 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01115-1
OPEN ACCESS.

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

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

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

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

Final Program

Left below: Klaus F. Zimmermann, Shuaizhang Feng, Max Tani & Sen Xue

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

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

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

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

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

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

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

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

17:30-19:30 PM Dinner

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

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

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

10:30-11:00 AM Break

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

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

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:

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

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

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

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

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

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

New GLO Research DPs June 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The JOPE CiteScore 2024 (Scopus)  is 8.7.

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New GLO Research DPs January 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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 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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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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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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The Journal of Population Economics has now (2022) CiteSCore = 9.2 and IF = 6.1.

Based on Clarivate:

SSCI IMPACT FACTOR: 6.1 (2022) from 4.7 (2021) – 1/29 in Demography & 38/380 in Economics
SSCI 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.0 (2022) from 4.2 (2021)
SSCI Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 2.13 (2022) from 1.76 (2021). JoPE has 113% more citation impact than the average in its category.
Rank by JCI. Demography: 1/49 (2022) Q1 from 2/50 (2021); Economics: 24/581 Q1 from 43/570 (2021)

A selective list of journals in economics based on CiteScore (#docs)

• 25.1 (158): Quarterly Journal of Economics
• 12.8 (592): Small Business Economics
• 9.2 (173): Journal of Population Economics
• 9.0 (514): China Economic Review
• 7.0 (460): Journal of Development Economics
• 6.3 (171): Journal of Labor Economics
• 6.3 (188): Review of Economics of the Household
• 6.2 (176): ILR Review
• 5.9 (178): Journal of Human Resources
• 5.8 (105): Eurasian Business Review
• 5.8 (309): International Journal of Manpower
• 5.5 (111): Eurasian Economic Review
• 5.4 (138): Feminist Economics
• 4.7 (49): Journal of Economic Growth
• 3.9 (366): Economics and Human Biology
• 3.4 (171): Journal of the Economics of Ageing
• 2.8 (425): Labour Economics
• 2.2 (224): Indian Journal of Labor Economics
• 2.2 (66): Journal of Human Capital
• 2.2 (112): Population and Economics
• 1.8 (67): Journal of Demographic Economics

A selective list of journals in demography based on CiteScore (#docs)

• 9.2 (182): Journal of Population Economics
• 7.3 (863): Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• 6.8 (168): International Migration Review
• 6.0 (386): Demography
• 5.2 (156): European Journal of Population
• 4.9 (387): Population, Space and Place
• 4.5 (143): Population and Development Review 
• 3.9 (117): Population Studies

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The May 2022 published scores for 2021 are defined as: “CiteScore 2021 counts the citations received in 2018-2021 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2018-2021, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2018-2021.”

CiteScore of Scopus for the Journal of Population Economics is now 6.5 in 2021 following 3.9 in 2020.

The CiteScore Rank in 2021: 75/696, Q1 in Economics and Econometrics & 3/124, Q1 in Demography.

The CiteScoreTracker 2022 (June) is already 6.5.

The Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) is in good company:

• Economics and Econometrics: Journal of Labor Economics 6.4; Journal of Human Resources 5.4.
• Demography: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 6.9; Demography 5.7.

JOPE Editor-in-Chief & GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann thanks authors, readers, the editorial team as well as Springer Nature staff for their amazing contributions to this success.

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GLO Fellow Grace Arnold (Portland State University, USA)

• The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Abortions and Births

Author Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the effects of the laws. I find that TRAP laws are associated with a reduction in the abortion rate of approximately 5% the year the first law is implemented, and an average reduction of 11-14% in subsequent years. There is also evidence that TRAP laws increased birth rates by 2-3%, which accounts for approximately 80-100% of the observed decline in abortion rates.

GLO Fellow Caitlin Knowles Myers (Middlebury College, USA)

• Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020 – Download PDF
  GLO Discussion Paper No. 1073, 2022

Author Abstract: An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women’s confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I consult primary sources including annotated statutes, judicial rulings, attorney general opinions, and advisory articles in medical journals, as well as secondary sources including newspaper articles and snapshots of various policy environments prepared by scholars, advocates, and government organizations. Based on this review, I provide a suggested coding of the policy environment over the past 60 years. I also present and compare the legal coding schemes used in the empirical literature and where possible I resolve numerous and substantial discrepancies.

Access to more published JOPE research on abortion issues:

• Mexico:
  The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions
  Fernanda Marquez-Padilla & Biani Saavedra
  Journal of Population Economics 35, pages 269–305 (2022)
  Free access & free to read: https://rdcu.be/cM1dV
• Romania:
  The inter-generational fertility effect of an abortion ban
  Federico H. Gutierrez
  Journal of Population Economics 35, pages 307–348 (2022)
  Free to read: https://rdcu.be/cM1dD
• India:
  Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women
  Garima Rastogi & Anisha Sharma
  Journal of Population Economics ONLINE FIRST (2022)
  OPEN ACCESS
• Italy:
  Papal visits and abortions: evidence from Italy
  Egidio Farina & Vikram Pathania
  Journal of Population Economics 33, pages 795–837 (2020)
  OPEN ACCESS
• USA:
  The unintended: negative outcomes over the life cycle
  Wanchuan Lin & Juan Pantano
  Journal of Population Economics 28, pages 479–508 (2015)
  Free to read: https://rdcu.be/cM1ja

JUST PUBLISHED
Vol. 35, Issue 3, July 2022: Journal of Population Economics: 15 articles
https://link.springer.com/journal/148/volumes-and-issues/35-3

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The 2021 Virtual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS 2021) on “Quality-of-life and Adaptation in a Virulent World” takes place on 23-27 August 2021 as a virtual event. The conference features five GLO/EHERO Special Sessions on Happiness Economics put together under the direction of Martijn Hendriks, Martijn Burger, and Milena Nikolova. Milena Nikolova is also the GLO Cluster Lead on Happiness Economics and a Section Editor dealing with happiness economics in the GLO-supported forthcoming Handbook  “Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” edited by GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann. A number of review papers presented in the GLO/EHERO Special Sessions are articles from this Handbook.

GLO/EHERO Special Sessions (ISQOLS 2021) on Friday, 27 August 2021, times are all CEST

Happiness Economics I: 06.00-07.40

• Stephanie Rossouw and Talita Greyling: Big Data and Happiness
• Olga Popova and Vladimir Otrachshenko: Religion and happiness
• Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe and Ronnie Schöb: Happiness, Work and Identity
• Martin Binder and Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being

Happiness Economics II: 10.00-11.40

• Diana Tam and Arthur Grimes: The Economics of Free Speech: A Subjective Wellbeing Approach
• Philip Morrison: Whose happiness in which cities? The urban wellbeing paradox revisited
• Martijn Hendriks and Randall Birnberg: Happiness in the daily socio-cultural integration process: A day reconstruction study among US immigrants in Germany
• Jeehoon Han and Caspar Kaiser: Changes in Time Use and Happiness

Happiness Economics III: 12.00-13.40

• Richard Easterlin and Kelsey O’Connor: The Easterlin Paradox 
• Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik: Feeling good or feeling better?
• Robin Konietzny, Milena Nikolova and Bart Los: Trade and Job (In)Security: The Two Sides of Occupational Import Exposure

Happiness Economics IV: 14.00-15.40

• Carol Graham, Emily Dobson and James Kunhardt: When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-being Track Across the U.S.A.
• Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey O’Connor, Chiara Peroni, Talita Greyling and Stephanie Rossouw: Well-being expressed through Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid, Ronnie Schöb and Mario Lawes:  The impact of Covid-19 on mental health and well-being. An event-study based on high-frequency longitudinal survey data

Happiness Economics V: 19.00-20.40

• Paul Fenton Villar: Is there a Mineral-Induced ‘Economic Euphoria’?: Evidence from Latin America
• Mariano Rojas, Karen Watkins and Lázaro Rodríguez: The Happiness of CEOs in Family and Nonfamily Firms: Different Explanatory Structures and its Consequences
• Annie Tubadji: Consumer Happiness and AI Sensitivity to Cultural and Moral Preferences

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EBES Website – Conference Page – Conference Program

The conference included a GLO Handbook Session on “Worker Representation, Labor-Management Relations and Labor Standards” organized and chaired by Uwe Jirjahn (University of Trier and GLO), who is a Section Editor of the Handbook. The event took place on July 2, 3.50-5.50 pm, Istanbul time.

VIDEO OF THE HANDBOOK SESSION

GLO Handbook Session: Worker Representation, Labor-Management Relations and Labor Standards

“Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann.

July 2, 2021. 3.50-5.50 pm local time Istanbul

Chair: Uwe Jirjahn (University of Trier and GLO)

• Decent Work and the Quality of Work and Employment
  Francis Green (University College London and GLO)
  
• Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants
  Claus Schnabel (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg)
  
• Unions, Worker Participation and Worker Well-Being
  Benjamin Artz (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and GLO) and John S. Heywood (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and GLO)
  
• Worker Voice and Political Participation in Civil Society
  John Budd (University of Minnesota and GLO) and Ryan Lamare (University of Illinois and GLO)
  
• Works Councils
  Jens Mohrenweiser (Bournemouth University)
  
• Board-Level Worker Representation
  Aleksandra Gregoric (Copenhagen Business School)
  

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The Covid-19 delayed IEA World Congress (“Bali”) now takes place virtually on 2-6 July 2021.

On invitation of the International Economic Association (IEA) the Global Labor Organization (GLO) has organized three sessions for the IEA World Congress, which were recorded by GLO with support of Kent University on June 10, 2021. See program details, report and video access: LINK

The video is also available here: LINK and on the congress website of the IEA World Congress 2021.

The GLO Sessions have the following themes:

• Session I. “Socioeconomic Status and Identity”.
• Session II. “The Migration Challenge“.
• Session III. “Wage gaps”.

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GLO Discussion Paper No. 859, 2021

Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors – Download PDF
by Roman, Monica & Zimmermann, Klaus F. & Plopeanu, Aurelian-Petruș

Author Abstract: While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or internal religiosity, but largely observable (external) religiosity prevents them from wallowing those vices.

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The Databank (i) collects, cleans, and harmonizes the most important Hungarian repeated cross-section surveys (ii) builds big LEED panels based on administrative data, which cover up to 5 million people followed on a monthly basis. Data on labor market and school careers, employer characteristics and state of health are available. (iii) Operates a Data Room. Researchers can work with full population and firm censuses, product-level trade data, and a register of inter-firm payments, among others. The data can be linked. Results should go through an output checking procedure. (iv) A laboratory is open for experiments. All the data and facilities are available for joint research with the employees of CERS, and many of them are unconditionally open for the international research community.

LINK to the website: https://adatbank.krtk.mta.hu/en/

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

The Collaborating Centre for Labour Research (CU-COLLAR) at Chulalongkorn University is dedicated to promoting cutting-edge labor researches to facilitate the implementation of policies, and to support the development of labor & socioeconomic data infrastructure and analysis to boost dialogues on labor research toward better wellbeing and decent work in an integrated and sustainable manner. The CU-COLLAR supports cooperation and partnership from a wide range of disciplines and universities with government, private sectors, employers’ representatives, workers’ representatives, international organizations, non-for-profit organizations at national and international levels. CU-COLLAR will provide the local platform of GLO at Chulalongkorn University, in Thailand and beyond.

Ruttiya Bhula-or is Associate Dean at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, and GLO Country Lead Thailand. She will act as Head of the local GLO initiatives at CU-COLLAR.

Chulalongkorn University with its Collaborating Centre for Labour Research (CU-COLLAR) has become a supporting organization of GLO.

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All the presentation in this series are based on the projects that GLO-VirtYS program scholars completed as part of their program participation.

This seminar is GLO internal, special invitation needed.

September 10^th Program

Sydney (10pm), Beijing (8pm), Istanbul (3pm), Berlin (2pm), London (1pm), Cape Town (2pm), Washington DC (8am), Santiago de Chile (8am)

1. Yannis Galanakis, University of Kent and GLO affiliate
   Female Human Capital Mismatch: An extension for the British public sector (GLO VirtYS program advisor Professor Nick Drydakis). VIDEO of this presentation.
2. Samuel Mann, Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods and GLO affiliate
   Gender Identity, Employment, Self-Employment and Trans Legislation (GLO VirtYS program advisor Professor Nick Drydakis). VIDEO of this presentation.

Chaired by GLO VirtYS Program Director Olena Nizalova.
Full video of the event.

 Yannis Galanakis

Yannis Galanakis is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Economics at the University of Kent (UK). His research centres around Labour Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Yannis’ recent empirical and theoretical work regards the Human Capital Mismatch (HCM) in the labour market accounting for differences across workers in more than one dimension of skill. His contribution argues that the mismatch might come from market frictions; hence, he proposes an alternative method to estimate its extent. Part of his analysis focuses on the female labour market highlighting not only the magnitude of their HCM, but also the discrimination they face even before entering the market. Furthermore, Yannis is a network research affiliate of the GLO. He participated in the VirtYS program for 2019/20. His project – advised by Prof. Nick Drydakis – intersects the female employees’ HCM and the public-sector affiliation. For more information, please visit https://ygalanak.github.io/.

GLO VirtYS Project

Female Human Capital Mismatch: An extension for the British public sector

This paper looks at the extent of labour market mismatch of public-sector female employees. It contributes to earlier findings for the British labour market by accounting for the endogenous self-selection into jobs. Estimates are based on data from the British Household Panel Study and the ‘Understanding Society’ covering the years 1991-2016. The analysis verifies that the public sector offers a few low-skilled jobs and employs, mostly, highly-educated (female) workers. Regarding the market flows, findings show the greater mobility of the female workforce, which moves proportionately between sectors. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the median employee, a sizeable incidence of mismatch arises due to negative selection. Specifications using the selection model for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women seen in the male labour market or in a restricted subsample. Finally, the map of occupations in mismatch supports that the public sector is more attractive as a waiting room for highly-qualified graduates. They queue less time until they find a good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise.

Samuel Mann

Samuel Mann is an applied labour economist with expertise in the areas of LGBT+ economics, wellbeing, inequality, and political economy. His (ESRC funded) PhD thesis was titled “Sexual Orientation and Wellbeing”. Since completing his PhD, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) at Swansea University. His postdoctoral research explores the wellbeing, labour market outcomes, and trust of sexual minorities, and evaluates the impact of different policies on these measures. Samuel has previously published in journals such as Work, Employment, and Society, and Economic Letters. As a GLO virtual young scholar Samuel has worked under the supervision of Prof. Nick Drydakis on a project analysing the labour market outcomes of transgender people in the US and evaluating the impact of several trans policies.

GLO VirtYS Project

Gender Identity, Employment, Self-Employment and Trans Legislation

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2018 to document the incidence of employment and self-employment of trans individuals compared to their cisgender counterparts. Additionally, the effects of employment non-discrimination acts, credit non-discrimination acts, and restrictions on changing gender identity on ID documents are analysed for the first time. Results demonstrate that FtM and gender nonconforming trans people are less likely to be employed than their cisgender counterparts in the US, while MtF trans people are more likely than their cisgender counterparts to be employed. FtM trans people are less likely to be self-employed than their cisgender counterparts, while MtF trans people are more likely to be self-employed. On the surface our policy analysis suggests that all three policies have little impact on the employment and self-employment of trans people, however, further analysis highlights that these policies do have positive impacts on certain trans populations, namely, older and non-college educated transgender people. ENDA’s and removing the requirement of surgical procedures to reassign the gender on birth certificates have the greatest traction in improving the employment outcomes of trans people, while credit non-discrimination acts have the greatest traction in increasing the self-employment incidence of trans people. The findings highlight the important role that trans legislation has on the labour market outcomes of trans people, and the detrimental economic impact of surgical requirements to reassign gender on birth certificates.

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The last issue 4 (October) 2020, Volume 33, of the Journal of Population Economics is now published. Access the Table of Content and the papers.

Clarivate Analytics Social Sciences Citation Index Factor released July 2020:
IMPACT FACTOR 1.840 (2019) from 1.253 (2018); 5-YEAR IF 2.353 (2019) from 2.072 (2018)

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GLO Discussion Paper No. 572, 2020

Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016 – Download PDF
by Andriopoulou, Eirini & Kanavitsa, Eleni & Tsakloglou, Panos

GLO Fellows Eirini Andriopoulou & Panos Tsakloglou

Greek Policy Advisor Panos Tsakloglou on the Greek Story in the COVID-19 Crisis. An Interview.

Author Abstract: The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using SILC data for the period 2007-2016. The population is partitioned according to four criteria: socioeconomic group of the household head, presence of unemployed individuals in the household, age of the population member and household type. When “anchored” poverty lines and distribution-sensitive poverty indices are employed the level of poverty rises to incredibly high levels. When the poverty lines used are “relative”, the poverty rate does not change substantially but when distribution-sensitive indices are used the increase in poverty is very substantial. The most interesting results are related to the changes in the structure of poverty. The crisis was associated with a very substantial increase in unemployment. Unemployment protection in Greece was inadequate while there was no “benefit of last resort”. As a result, the relative position of households with unemployed members (and, especially, with unemployed heads) deteriorated sharply, while their contribution to aggregate poverty skyrocketed. Unlike what is often claimed in the Greek public discourse, the relative position of pensioner-headed households improved, although they also experienced a considerable decline in their living standards.

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The authors

Talita Greyling: School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and GLO; email: talitag@uj.ac.za
Stephanié Rossouw: Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand,and GLO; email: stephanie.rossouw@aut.ac.nz

The analysis

South Africans are “angry” after their first weekend under lockdown. COVID-19 has been playing havoc with South African’s emotions over the last month.  We have made 180 degrees turn in our emotional state; from being joyful, anticipating good things to happen and showing trust, to being angry, anticipating the worst and showing disgust and fear.  Over the period, the most significant gainers, among the emotions, were anger, up with almost 10%, followed by disgust (+8%) (see figure 1, indicated by the black arrows). In contrast, the biggest losers were trust (-13%) and joy (-6%) (see figure 1 indicated by grey arrows) (Greyling & Rossouw 2020). 

These are the results of Prof Talita Greyling (University of Johannesburg) and Dr Stephanie Rossouw (Auckland University of Technology) who in collaboration with Afstereo launched South Africa’s Happiness Index in April 2019 and recently expanded their study to include the analysis of the emotions of South Africans.  

Why are South Africans so angry?  From the analyses of the Tweets (see www.gnh.today) the team (Greyling & Rossouw, 2020) found the following:

• Mad at police and military, because of the aggressive and violent manner the COVID – regulations are enforced.
• Angry about people being greedy and making money out of COVID-19, when the country is suffering.
• Angry at government playing politics in a time of fear, and uncertainty about the future.
• Mad about Moody’s downgrade to junk status, “kicking the country when it is already down”.
• Angry about being isolated, cut-off and no way to release stress or alleviate depression and anxiety.
• Concerned about the increase in domestic violence, interesting not only men towards women, but among all members of the household.
• Mad at not being able to buy alcohol (previously also cigarettes).
• Being stuck at home and then also having to endure loadshedding
• Lack of groceries after the rich has bought everything
• God is mad, this is a sign of His wrath

Is there anything that South Africans are positive about at the moment? Well, it seems that in true South African spirit we cling to the silver lining in this storm that threatens to swallow us. “Family time” seems to be one of the few positives. In this never-ending rat race, being able to spend quality time with our loved ones seems to be our saving grace.  Other positives mentioned are “time for self-reflection” and “time to turn to God”.

If we turn to the Happiness Index itself, which measures the sentiment  levels of South Africans on a scale from zero  to 10 J, with 5 being neutral (neither happy or unhappy) (see www.gnh.today), we note that the  index stays under pressure. After the significant lows on the days before-, on- and after the announcement of the lockdown (23 March 2020), there was a short lived increase in happiness levels, as people rushed to shops and their home towns/steads (migrating out of the cities), in anticipation of the lockdown.  However, the happiness levels soon returned to the “new lows” we have been experiencing since the announcement of the first COVID-19 patient in South Africa (see figure 2).

As reality sinks in and the health and livelihoods of South Africans’ come under threat, it becomes clear that “Twenty Plenty” has made a 180-degree turnaround to “Twenty Catastrophe”.  

Reference
Greyling T. & Rossouw S. 2020. Gross National Happiness Project. Afstereo (IT partner). University of Johannesburg (funding agency). Pretoria, South Africa.  www.gnh.today.

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Life with Corona Study 

Have you heard of the new Life with Corona Study?

It is an innovative citizen science project that will help us understand how the Corona crisis is changing our lives. The findings will deliver important insights for policy-makers and researchers into how to better manage and mitigate the crisis.

Based on cutting-edge methodologies, the survey captures the voices and sentiments of citizens around the world.

Be part of the survey now! Just fill in the questionnaire and please forward this call in your networks. The more people participate, the more we know!

#sharethesurveynotthevirus #lifewithcorona

LINK to the survey website.

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Continuous Global Online Survey ‘Living and Working in Corona Times’ 

WageIndicator shows coronavirus-induced changes in living and working conditions in 110 countries. The changes are visualized in maps and graphs. These infographics show, from day to day, the consequences the large majority of the working population of the world experiences, on the basis of answers on the following questions in the Corona survey:

– Is your work affected by the corona crisis?
– Are precautionary measures taken at the workplace?
– Do you have to work from home?
– Has your workload increased/decreased?
– Have you lost your job/work/assignments?

First results show an enormous impact of the coronavirus on work in general. In the Netherlands for instance, a country severely hit, 95 percent of participants in the survey state that their work is impacted by the corona-crisis.

The survey contains questions about the home situation of respondents as well as about the possible manifestation of the corona disease in members of the household. Also the effect of having a pet in the house in corona-crisis times is included.

WageIndicator – a respected partner of GLO –  is a non-profit foundation, which aims to share and compare wages and labour law on a global scale through its national websites in 140 countries with millions of web visitors. WageIndicator’s web visitors are invited to complete the survey on Living and Working in Corona Times. The survey reaches out to all people in working age, contracted, self-employed and unemployed alike.

WageIndicator’s online infrastructure is built up over the past two decades and consists of online and offline surveys and data collection. For this particular survey, the international WageIndicator team cooperates with academic research institutes from half a dozen countries. The survey asks the same questions across countries. Therefore WageIndicator is able to closely monitor the development of the corona crisis and its impact on the world of work.

WageIndicator has rolled out its survey on March 26, 2020. From March 31 onwards WageIndicator maps changes in 110 countries, shown permanently online and updated each day.

Crucial links:
For the list of participating countries. Do the survey and find the results!
Link project page and team.
Contact:  office@wageindicator.org 
+31 6 539 77 695

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GLO Discussion Paper No. 417, 2019

Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People’s Self-Esteem and Human Resources’ Evaluations –  Download PDF
by Bozani, Vasiliki & Drydakis, Nick & Sidiropoulou, Katerina & Harvey, Benjamin & Paraskevopoulou, Anna

GLO Fellows Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou and Anna Paraskevopoulou

Author Abstract: This study provides empirical patterns regarding trans people’s self-esteem-oriented reflections during observations of positive workplace actions. The case of a 2015 UK workplace guide is utilized to fulfill our aims. We adopt Rawls’ political philosophy framework in order to evaluate whether trans people’s self-esteem-oriented concepts might be enhanced by policy makers’ positive actions. The study does find that trans people’s self-esteem and self-respect are enhanced by policy makers’ positive actions to promote inclusivity in the workplace. Due to these actions trans people feel more accepted, valued and trusted by the government. We suggest that if a workplace policy is perceived to be recognizing trans people’s worth this may be internalized, resulting in positive self-evaluations by trans people. In addition, we present empirical patterns from HR departments which have been aware of the workplace guide. HR officers suggest that the workplace guide informs their strategies, and positively affects the creation of a more inclusive workplace culture, the corporate profiles of their firms and staff organizational behaviours (such as, achieving results, fostering collegiality, reducing complaints) and addresses LGBT business and trans staff-members’ needs. We suggest that if employers adopt policy makers’ positive workplace policies aiming to increase inclusivity, they may be able to realize positive organizational outcomes in their firms.

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Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba and Bachir Hamdouch: “International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco”
Journal of Population Economics, online, issue forthcoming.

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GLO Fellows Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba and Bachir Hamdouch

Author Abstract: This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, this paper explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviors than non-migrant families. Once controlling for the double selection into emigration and return migration, the findings suggest that having a returnee in the household increases the demand for political and social change. This result is driven by returnees mostly from Western European countries, who were exposed to more democratic norms in the destination. However, we find a negative impact of having a current migrant on the willingness of the left-behind households to change. This result is driven by migrants to non-Western countries, where the quality of political and social institutions is lower. Our results are robust to also controlling for destination selectivity.

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Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt & Josselin Thuilliez: “Pauvreté, Egalité, Mortalité: mortality (in)equality in France and the United States”
Journal of Population Economics, online, in print.

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GLO Fellow Hannes Schwandt

Author Abstract: We develop a method for comparing levels and trends in inequality in mortality in the United States and France between 1990 and 2010 in a similar framework. The comparison shows that while income inequality has increased in both the United States and France, inequality in mortality in France remained remarkably low and stable. In the United States, inequality in mortality increased for older groups (especially women) while it decreased for children and young adults. These patterns highlight the fact that despite the strong cross-sectional relationship between income and health, there is no necessary connection between changes in income inequality and changes in health inequality.

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Irene Ferrari: “The nativity wealth gap in Europe: a matching approach “
Journal of Population Economics, online, issue forthcoming.

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GLO Fellow Irene Ferrari

Author Abstract: This study uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows estimation not only of the mean of the wealth gap but also of its distribution for the common-support sub-population. The results show that on average there is a positive and significant wealth gap between natives and migrants. However, the average gap may be misleading as the distribution of the gap reveals that immigrant households in the upper part of the wealth distribution are better off, and those in the lower part of the wealth distribution are worse off, than comparable native households. A heterogeneity analysis shows the importance of origin, age at migration, and citizenship status in reducing the gap. Indeed, households who migrated within Europe, those who moved at younger ages rather than as adults, and those who are citizens of the destination country display a wealth gap that is consistently smaller over the entire distribution.

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Claudia Lumpe: “Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration”
Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 32 (2019), Issue 3, pp. 981–1008.

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GLO Fellow Claudia Lumpe

Author Abstract: This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain-drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987–2010 to identify the effect of public beliefs in social mobility on the share of high-skilled immigrants (stocks) in the main OECD immigration countries. The empirical results suggest that countries with higher “American Dream” beliefs, i.e., with stronger beliefs that climbing the social ladder can be realized by own hard work, attracted a higher proportion of high-skilled immigrants over time. This pattern even holds against the fact that existing social mobility in these countries is relatively lower.

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Momoe Makino: “Marriage, dowry, and women’s status in rural Punjab, Pakistan”
Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 32 (2019), Issue 3, pp. 769-797.

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GLO Fellow Momoe Makino

Author Abstract: Dowry is a common custom observed in South Asian countries. Despite alleged negative consequences caused by dowry and the legal ban or restrictions on its practice, the custom has been extended, and recently, dowry amounts seem to be increasing. Compared with public interest in and theoretical studies on dowry, empirical studies are relatively scarce mainly due to data unavailability and inadequacy. We conducted a household survey specifically designed to empirically investigate how dowry is associated with women’s status in the marital household in rural Punjab, Pakistan. The dataset is unique because it gathers information on disaggregated marriage expenses, which enables us to examine the relation between each itemized component of dowry and women’s status. Results show that a higher dowry amount, especially in terms of furniture, electronics, and kitchenware, is positively associated with women’s status in the marital household. The positive association of these illiquid items adds suggestive evidence that in rural Punjab, Pakistan, dowry serves as a trousseau that the bride’s parents voluntarily offer to their daughter.

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GLO Discussion Paper now published in the Journal of Population Economics, July 2019, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 1009–1042; already 2.4k downloads on July 5, 2019! OPEN ACCESS….

See online on the Journal website.

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GLO Discussion Paper No. 215, 2018.

Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks – Download PDF
by Giuntella, Osea & Mazzonna, Fabrizio & Nicodemo, Catia & Vargas-Silva, Carlos

GLO Fellows Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Catia Nicodemo & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Author Abstract: This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003–2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by lower physical burden and injury risk. The results also show important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels of education, but has no significant effect on those with low levels. We also find that that immigration led to an improvement self-reported measures of native workers’ health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human and financial costs typically associated with workplace injuries.

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GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of March 2019 now forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics!

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GLO Discussion Paper No. 329, 2019.

Female genital mutilation and migration in Mali. Do return migrants transfer social norms? – Download PDF
by Diabate, Idrissa & Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine

GLO Fellow Sandrine Mesplé-Somps.

Abstract:   In this paper, we investigate the power of migration as a mechanism in the transmission of social norms, taking Mali and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a case study. Mali has a strong FGM culture and a long-standing history of migration. We use an original household-level database coupled with census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in localities with high rates of return migrants are less prone to FGM. Malians migrate predominantly to other African countries where female circumcision is uncommon (e.g. Côte d’Ivoire) and to countries where FGM is totally banned (France and other developed countries) and where anti-FGM information campaigns frequently target African migrants. Taking a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of migration and return decisions, we show that return migrants have a negative and significant influence on FGM practices. More precisely, we show that this result is primarily driven by the flow of returnees from Cote d’Ivoire. We also show that adults living in localities with return migrants are more informed about FGM and in favor of legislation. The impact of returnees may occur through several channels, including compositional effects, changes in return migrants’ attitudes toward FGM, and return migrants convincing stayers to change their FGM practices.

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EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann, who is also the President of GLO, will open the EBES congress on Wednesday. GLO members are involved in two important conference panel sessions, among others, on Wednesday May 29:

EBES & GLO Panel on “The Future of Europe and Brexit after the EU Election”:

09:30-10:30
Chair & Introduction: Klaus F. Zimmermann, President, EBES & GLO & Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, EBES, GLO, & Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Matloob Piracha, Director GLO & University of Kent, United Kingdom
Dorothea Schäfer, DIW Berlin, GLO, & Jönköping University, Sweden
Marco Vivarelli, GLO& Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano, Italy

JOURNAL EDITORS SPECIAL SESSION: How to Publish in WOS Journals?

14:30-15:50
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Population Economics (SSCI)
David B. Audretsch, Editor-in-Chief, Small Business Economics (SSCI)
Marco Vivarelli, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Business Review (SSCI)
Dorothea Schäfer, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Economic Review (Scopus & ESCI)

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GLO Discussion Paper of the Month: April

GLO Discussion Paper No. 344, 2019. Stalin and the origins of mistrust – Download PDF

by Nikolova, Milena & Popova, Olga & Otrachshenko, Vladimir 

GLO Fellows Milena Nikolova and Olga Popova 

Abstract:   We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin’s rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps (gulags) became less trusting and transferred this social norm to their descendants. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical information on the location of forced labor camps, we find that individuals who live near former gulags have low levels of social and institutional trust. Our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, which suggests that the relationship we document is causal. We outline several causal mechanisms and test whether the social norm of mistrust near gulags developed because of political repression or due to fear that inmates bring criminality. As such, we provide novel evidence on the channels through which history matters for current socio-economic outcomes today.

GLO Discussion Papers of April 2019

344 Stalin and the origins of mistrust – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena & Popova, Olga & Otrachshenko, Vladimir

343 Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries – Download PDF
by Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal & Yavuz, Hasan Bilgehan & Pastore, Francesco

342 The impact of Brexit on International Students’ Return Intentions – Download PDF
by Falkingham, Jane & Giulietti, Corrado & Wahba, Jackline & Wang, Chuhong

341 Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada – Download PDF
by Aziz, Nusrate & Mahar, Gerry

340 Should I stay or should I go? Migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients –Download PDF
by Alfano, Vincenzo & D’Uva, Marcella & De Simone, Elina & Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio

GLO DP Team
Senior Editors: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent) & GLO; Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University).
Managing Editor: Magdalena Ulceluse, University of Groningen. DP@glabor.org  

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Topic:                   Ethnic Identity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Outcomes

Speaker:            Dr Matloob Piracha
Venue:                120 Lend Lease Room, 1 Management Drive, Macquarie University NSW 2109
When:                 Monday 6th May 2019
Time:                   2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Abstract:

In this seminar, Dr. Piracha will address the following questions: i) what are the determinants of ethnic identity, and (ii) whether those who identify with the host country culture have a higher probability of getting a job as well as better wages than those who identify more with the culture of their country of origin. The paper will use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA), which consists of data collected for two cohorts of immigrants. The first cohort entered the country in 1993–1995 while the second cohort entered in 2000–2001. The paper will consider what role ethnic identity plays in the labour market integration of immigrants. It will then compare the determinants of ethnic identity of the cohort that entered before the immigration policy change in 1995, when the level of English required in the selective (points-based) system increased, with the one that entered after the change.

Dr Matloob Piracha:

Dr Matloob Piracha is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent, UK. He has extensive experience of working on migration and related issues and has published a number of papers on the impact of migration on sending and receiving countries as well as on migrants and their left-behind families. Matloob has acted as a consultant or a collaborator for a number of international organisations including the OECD, UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank. He is also Director of the Global Labour Organisation (GLO), a virtual network connecting eminent scholars and policymakers from around the world.

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Budapest has played a particular role in the academic career of Klaus F. Zimmermann. Already early 1984, he received as academic youngster the honor of an invitation to the small-scale Winter Symposium of the Econometric Society, which took place in Budapest guided by Martin Hellwig, Janos Kornai and Jean-Jacques Laffont. In 1990 he came back as the then Secretary of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) to speak at the Workshop “Demographic Change and Social Policy” of the demographic institutes of the countries of the Eastern Socialist Block organized by the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute. Its then Director Istvan Monigl had invited Zimmermann and showed him also parts of Hungary in a personal tour. The ambitions of the two men was to initiate soon a big population economics congress in Budapest to foster change, which was achieved in 1993 when the annual ESPE congress took place in the city. Zimmermann came back regularly since then.

While 1984, 1990 and 1993 were visits in periods of change and transition with a high appreciation of freedom, mobility and collaboration, the current visit as a George Soros Chair Professor takes place in a period where free mobility, academic independence and European unity face declining popularity.

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The postgraduate section of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy (FBEA), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), organized the first UMS-GLO Joint Public Lecture on 17th April 2019 in East Malaysia. The objective of this event is to encourage research networking and exchange of ideas especially among labor economists in Malaysia.

Professor M Niaz Asadullah of the University of Malaya and the South East Asia Lead and the Malaysia Lead for the Global Labor Organization (GLO) presented the keynote paper entitled ‘The Changing Pattern of Wage Returns to Education in Post-Reform China’. In his lecture, Professor Asadullah emphasized the importance of human capital development in China’s post reform economy.

The keynote lecture was followed by two presentations: Dr. Borhan S Abdullah and Dr. James Alin, both UMS lecturers, spoke on migration and unemployment issues in Malaysia, respectively. A total of 30 postgraduate students and lecturers of FBEA UMS attended the event, including GLO Fellow and Head of the Human Resource Economics Program of the Faculty, Dr. Beatrice Lim.

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