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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