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

New research from the GLO network free to access: 

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

New GLO Research DPs January 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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