Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7, 2024

The Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024 takes place in person for people on the program on December 4 at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherland (online participation is possible upon prior restriction), and online only on December 5-7.

There will be presentations of fresh research in particular on labor, health, population and development issues with

  • papers on robots, emerging technologies,
  • the Gig economy, and  
  • the Ukraine.
  • With highlights of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) papers of 2024 including the presentation of the JOPE 2024 Kuznets Prize.
  • VirtYS Research Paper Sessions, and
  • Jobmarket Sessions.
  • The regular GLO Virtual Seminar of December 5 with Eva Sierminska on “Inequality in Economics as a Profession” is also integrated.

PRIOR REGISTRATION for all program parts separately is requested until the respective conference day. The registration links are provided below at the beginning of each day and here. Program parts are:
– UNU-MERIT & GLO workshop on Dec. 4, online participation: LINK UNU-MERIT & GLO
– VirtYS workshop on December 5: LINK Room VirtYS
– GLO Seminar, Kuznets Prize, JOPE I & II and GLO Job I on Dec. 5: LINK JOPE Dec 5
– JOPE III, IV & V and GLO Job II, II & IV on Dec 6: LINK JOPE Dec 6
– GLO Job Market Sessions on Saturday GLO Job V & VI: LINK JOPE Dec 7

All details about these events will be regularly updated here. 
Update: December 3, 2024. 9:00 am CET Berlin.

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Special Call for Papers for GLO Job Market Sessions for North America and China.

Submission deadline was November 15, 2024. The background of this program part is explained here:
https://glabor.org/call-for-submissions-glo-annual-online-conference-job-market-sessions-december-5-7-2024-for-north-america-and-china/

Program and Zoom link for prior registration is communicated below. The sessions will take place online December 5-7.

Organizing Committee:
Le Wang (Chair) Virginia Tech & GLO, Director of GLO Young Scholars Program.
North America: Chanita Holmes (Virginia Tech), Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State), Fan Wang (Houston & GLO), Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers University). China: Shihe Fu (Wuhan University & GLO), Xincheng Qiu (Peking University & GLO), LIqiu Zhao (Renmin University & GLO)

PROGRAM
Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7, 2024

December 4, 2024 UNU-MERIT Maastricht – GLO Workshop on “Innovations and Demographic Change“

The ongoing substantial demographic (aging, immigration), environmental (global warming), and technological changes (robots, artificial intelligence) require intelligent and responsive technical and social innovations to adjust flexibly to challenges and opportunities. UNU-MERIT and GLO researchers provide talent and ambitions to contribute to the solutions. To foster the discussion, the workshop deals with robots, emerging technologies, the Gig economy, Ukraine, and refugee and labor migration challenges.

  • In-person event as part of the Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7, 2024
  • Conference Venue: UNU-MERIT at Belvedere (first floor); Boschstraat 24, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • Conference hotel: Bastion Hotel; Boschstraat 27, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands

  • Speakers are all in person. Online participation is possible.
  • No participation fee. Non-speakers need to register.
  • Registration for online participation:
    https://unu-merit-eu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc-irpzopG9a_nITCMva5fvyJ7V-EF3oo
  • Registration for in-person participation:
    Drop an email to office@glabor.org with subject “UNU-MERIT – GLO Workshop December 4, 2024” and provide “full name”, “affiliation” and “yes/no present at lunchtime”.

  • Program: Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT), Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & GLO)
  • Organization: Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University & GLO), Yannick Markhof (UNU-MERIT & GLO), Herman Pijpers (UNU-MERIT), Soha Youssef (UNU-MERIT), Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & GLO)

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9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introduction

9:30-10:30 Keynote
Chair: Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT)

  • Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen & GLO): Robots, Tasks, and the Meaning of Work

10:00 Break

10:30-12:30 Emerging Technologies and Labor
Chair: Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT & GLO)

  • Nanditha Mathew (UNU-MERIT): Digital Technologies, Hiring, Training, and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from AI and ICT Adoption in Indian firms (with Sneha Marydas, Giordano De Marzo, Nanditha Mathew and Carlo Pietrobelli)
  • Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT):  The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies (with Ekaterina Prytkova, Fabien Petit, Deyu Li and Sugat Chaturvedi)

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:30 The WageIndicator Foundation and the Gig Economy
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & GLO)

  • Fiona Dragstra (Director, WageIndicator Foundation & GLO): Labour Market Transparency for All?! The Journey of 25 Years of WageIndicator Globally
  • Paulien Osse (Co-founder and Global lead Living Wages, WageIndicator Foundation & GLO): Fair Pay & the Gig Economy: Introducing the Living Tariff

14:30-15:30 The Economics of Ukraine
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & GLO)

  • Agnieszka Postepska (University of Groningen & GLO): The Effect of Ukrainian Refugees on the Local Labour Markets: The Case of Czechia (with Anastasiia Voloshyna)
  • Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & GLO): Impact of TB Epidemic on Worker and Firm Productivity: Regional Perspective from Ukraine

15:30 Break

16:00-17:20 Migration and Development
Chair: Agnieszka Postepska (University of Groningen & GLO)

  • Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University & GLO): Human Capital of Children from Short-Term Migrant Families in India
  • Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Tilburg University & GLO): The Effect of Initial Location Assignment on Healthcare Utilization of Refugees
  • Yunnan Ye (Leiden University): Chinese Labor Migration in the United Arab Emirates since 1970s
  • Trang Nguyen (UNU-MERIT): Special Economic Zones and Firm Performance: Evidence from Vietnamese firms (with Karsten Mau and Tania Treibich)

18:00 Dinner (special invitation)

December 5, 2024

  • Online only: ZOOM LINK TO REGISTER:
    – Room VirtYS for the 10:30-13:00 VirtYS session. LINK Room VirtYS
    – Room JOPE Dec 5 for GLO Seminar, Kuznets Prize, JOPE I & II and GLO Job I:
    ALL sessions after VirtYS on Dec 5: LINK JOPE Dec 5
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10:30-13:00 Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & GLO)
2023-24 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS). Cohort final presentations.
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A.
Preregistration through “LINK Room VirtYS” above.

  • Mehrzad B. Baktash (University of Trier& GLO): Does Performance Pay Increase the Risk of Worker Loneliness?
  • Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Anisfield School of Business & GLO): Impact of COVID19 Lockdowns on Childbirth Delivery Care in India
  • Yannick Markhof (UNU-MERIT & GLO): Lies in disguise: Measurement error in popular survey methods for sensitive issues
  • Tarana Chauhan (Brown University & GLO): Accounting for Empowerment? Examining Women’s Financial Inclusion in India
  • Xinyan Liu (University of Tokyo & GLO):  Institution Matters: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment
  • Peikang Zhang (Institute of Higher Education at Fudan University & GLO): The Disappearing AI-Labor Substitution: The Unintended Impact of Art-Science Division Abolishment in China
  • Jiong Zhu (Xiamen University & GLO): Land Titling, Human Capital Misallocation, and Agricultural Productivity in China
     

13:00 Break

14:00-15:00 Chair: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)
Monthly GLO Virtual Internal Seminar.
Eva Sierminska (LISER & GLO): Inequality in Economics as a Profession
Note: Session will be videotaped
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 5” above.

15:00 Break

15:15-16:00 Chair: Xi Chen (Yale University & GLO), JOPE Editor
Kuznets Prize 2025, Award ceremony & article presentation
Note: Session will be videotaped. Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 5” above.

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

Introduction by JOPE Editor Xi Chen. Remarks by JOPE Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Paper presentation by Peter Eibich (20 min).

16:00 Break

16:30-18:30 JOPE Session I
Chair: Xi Chen (Yale University & GLO), JOPE Editor
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A. Session will be videotaped.
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 5” above.

18:30 Break

19:00-21:00 JOPE Session II
Chair: Terra McKinnish (University of Colorado Boulder & GLO), JOPE Editor
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A. Session will be videotaped.
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 5” above.

21:00 Break

21.30-23:30 CET = US Eastern: 15:30-17: 30 GLO Job Market Session I
Chair: Bingxiao Wu, Rutgers University: Session: Labor and Health Economics
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 5” above.

23:30 CET = 17:30 US Eastern: End of day

December 6, 2024

  • Online only: ZOOM LINK TO REGISTER
    – Room JOPE Dec 6 for JOPE III, IV & V and GLO Job II, III & IV: LINK JOPE Dec 6
    You need to register once for this day.
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8:00-10:00 JOPE Session III
Chair: Kompal Sinha (Macquarie University & GLO), JOPE Editor
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A. Session will be videotaped.
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

10:00 Break

10:30-12:30 JOPE Session IV
Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen & GLO), JOPE Editor
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A. Session will be videotaped.
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

  • JOPE No. 73-2024: Alain Trannoy
    Le Fur, T., Trannoy, A. The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle. J Popul Econ 37, 73 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01051-6 READLINK: https://rdcu.be/d1y7C
  • JOPE No 52-2024: Alexander Kritikos
    Kritikos, A.S., Maliranta, M., Nippala, V. et al.: Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap. J Popul Econ 37, 52 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01030-x OPEN ACCESS
  • JOPE No. 36: Alena Bičáková
    Bičáková, A., Kalíšková, K.: Is longer maternal care always beneficial? The impact of a 4-year paid parental leave.
    J Popul Econ 37, 36 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01010-1 OPEN ACCESS
  • JOPE No. 65-2024: Gökben AYDİLEK
    Aydilek, G., Karaoğlan, D.: The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey.
    J Popul Econ 37, 65 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01042-7 OPEN ACCESS
  • JOPE No. 70: António Melo
    Melo, A.: Do all roads lead to the same destination? Proximity to abortion providers, abortions, and their conditions in Portugal.
    J Popul Econ 37, 70 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01048-1 OPEN ACCESS

12:30 Break

14:00-16:00 JOPE Session V
Chair: Madeline Zavodny (University of North Florida & GLO), JOPE Managing Editor
Note: Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A. Session will be videotaped.
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

16:00 CET = 10:00 US Eastern Break

16:30-18:30 CET = 10:30 – 12:30 US Eastern. GLO Job Market Session II
Chair: Tyler Ransom, University of Oklahoma & GLO. Session: Economics of Education
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

18:30 CET = 12:30 US Eastern Break

19:00-21:00 CET = 13:00-15:00 US Eastern. GLO Job Market Session III
Chair: Yang Jiao, Texas A&M University-Texarkana. Session: Development
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

21:00 CET = 15:00 US Eastern Break

21:30-23:30 CET = 15:30-17:30 US Eastern. GLO Job Market Session IV
Chair: Nazanin Sedaghatkish, Sam Houston State University. Session: Gender and Race
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 6” above.

23:30 CET = 17:30 US Eastern: End of day

December 7, 2024

14:00-16:00 CET = 08:00-10:00 US Eastern. GLO Job Market Session V
Chair: Xincheng Qiu, Peking University. Session: Applied Economics
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 7” above.

16:00 CET = 10:00 US Eastern. Break.

16:30-18:30 CET = 10:30-12:30 US Eastern. GLO Job Market Session VI
Chair: Fan Wang, University of Houston. Session: Labor and Demography
Preregistration through “LINK JOPE Dec 7” above.

18:30 CET = 12:30 US Eastern. End of conference.

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