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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Employee Representatives Foster Firm Performance
A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that in Portugal employee representatives foster firm performance through increased training of workers. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform … Continue reading
Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that the China-driven fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations and reduced the demand for low wage occupations. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental … Continue reading
2020 Kuznets Prize of the Journal of Population Economics Awarded on January 3, 2020 at the ASSA Meeting in San Diego/USA.
2020 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Kumar Jha & Sudipta Sarangi Gautam Hazarika (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Chandan Kumar Jha (Le Moyne College, Madden School of Business), and Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) will receive the 2020 … Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2020 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics in Zürich.
The 2020 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on June 18-19 takes place at the University of Zürich organized by the Department of Economics. GLO Fellow and GLO Country Lead Switzerland Rainer Winkelmann heads the … Continue reading
Second GLO-Renmin University Labor Economics Conference in Beijing: Second Day on December 8, 2019.
The second day of the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference on Labor Economics in Beijing finished on 8 December 2019. More details and full program; report on day 1; place: North Hall, Century Hall, RUC. December 8, … Continue reading
Second GLO-Renmin University Labor Economics Conference in Beijing: First Day on December 7, 2019.
The first day of the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference on Labor Economics in Beijing finished on 7 December 2019. More details and full program; place: North Hall, Century Hall, RUC. Conference organizers are GLO Fellows Corrado … Continue reading
GLO President visits Beijing Research Institutions from December 5 – 12, 2019. On December 5, he gave a luncheon keynote to a large international conference on ‘Vocational Education and Training Development’
On his one-week trip to Beijing/China, Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and Bonn University, arrived on December 5 to participate in a one-day event: For the Future: International Conference on Vocational Education and Training Development … Continue reading
Visiting Brussels – a fresh start for Europe. GLO President Zimmermann in Brussels on December 3.
The new European Union Commission under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen started to work on December 1, 2019 with the aim to re-vitalize Europe. On this occasion, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann was visiting Brussels on December 3 … Continue reading
Second GLO-Renmin University Labor Economics Conference in Beijing: December 7-8, 2019.
Labor market issues will play the major role at the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference in Beijing on 7-8 December 2019. Keynote speakers of the event are GLO Fellows Shi Li of Zhejiang University and Xi Chen … Continue reading
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Couples have better mental health after retirement, while single males suffer.
A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for The Netherlands that retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners, while single men experience a drop in mental health. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an … Continue reading