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September 8, 2019. New GLO Discussion Paper on ‘The gender wage gap among PhD holders’

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for Italy a gender gap of 5% to 8% in hourly wages among PhD holders with sizeable differences by sector of employment and field of specialization. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, … Continue reading

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September 7, 2019. New GLO Discussion Paper on ‘Family Size and Sibling Structure & the Great Mexico-US Migration’

A new GLO Discussion Paper on the Great Mexico-US migration finds that large families per se do not boost offspring out-migration. The likelihood of migrating is higher for sons and decreases sharply with birth order. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) … Continue reading

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September 7, 2019. Call for contributions for the ‘Australian Gender Economics Workshop’, 5-7 February 2020. Submission deadline is 13 September 2019!

The third edition of the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW) will take place in Brisbane at the Queensland University of Technology on 5-7 February 2020. The aim of AGEW is to foster a community of economic researchers who can collectively … Continue reading

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September 6, 2019. Turkish University Students’ Self-Perceptions of Aging. New Research from the GLO Network.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that almost 85 percent of “engineering” and “economics and administrative science” faculty students describe health and elderly care as the two major concerns they have for their old ages. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) … Continue reading

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September 6, 2019. ‘Decomposing the gender pay gap in the USA’: Now published online in the Journal of Population Economics.

Gender pay gaps are still of much concern, in particular in the United States. A new GLO Discussion Paper adds to our understanding how the gender gap is shaped by multiple different forces such as parenthood, gender segregation, part-time work … Continue reading

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September 5, 2019. The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the USA. New Research from the GLO Network.

A new GLO Discussion Paper indicate that male and female immigrants from countries with a higher concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English language proficiency and earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of … Continue reading

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September 4, 2019. Immigrant’s demand for informal & formal education. New Research from the GLO Network.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds evidence that immigrants are more likely to engage in informal education and, conditionally on participation, they allocate more time to these activities. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading

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September 4, 2019. Cold Brexit and hate against foreigners. The GLO Policy Forum debates the persistence of the attitudes: Is hostility towards immigration temporary?

September 4, 2019. Research has suggested that a ‘Cold Brexit’ will cause large job losses across Europe, not only in the Great Britain (see below). While in London the British Parliament last night increased efforts to stop the United Kingdom … Continue reading

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September 3, 2019. A Simple Solution to the Problem of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in Choo and Siow Marriage Market Model. New Research from the GLO Network.

A new GLO Discussion Paper proposes a simple solution to the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) problem in the Choo and Siow (2006) model. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor that improves its empirical properties. … Continue reading

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September 2, 2019. Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the US. New Research from the GLO Network.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that those who married prior to migration, who first married at an older age, who are better positioned in the labor market and are less closely connected to their ethnic origins are less likely … Continue reading

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