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Meeting the Kangaroo: Traveling to Melbourne and Else

During November and December 2017, Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) will be affiliated with Melbourne University after having received the prestigious Australian Eminent Research Scholar Award. Melbourne has just been marked the World’s … Continue reading

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Zimmermann delivered keynote on Migration & Wellbeing in Kyiv

International Conference “People Matter: Quality of Life and Population Wellbeing in Post-Transition Economies” organized by the Kyiv School of Economics and VoxUkraine on September 14-15, 2017 in Kyiv in Ukraine. Available: full program of the conference. The organizing committee of … Continue reading

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How Property Prices are Affected by School Quality: GLO Fellow Haisken-DeNew speeks at UNU-MERIT on September 18.

GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew of Melbourne University will visit POP at UNU-MERIT on September 18, 2017. He will present a paper in the UNU-MERIT/School of Governance Seminar at noon (12:00 – 13:00) on: Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect … Continue reading

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New Managing Editor of the Journal of Population Economics: Michaella Vanore follows Alessio Brown

On 15 September 2017, Michaella Vanore follows Alessio Brown as Managing Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. In this role she supports the Editor-in-Chief, Klaus F. Zimmermann. The Journal of Population Economics published by Springer Nature is affiliated with … Continue reading

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Kyiv Conference 14-15 September on Population Wellbeing in Post-Transition Economies

International Conference “People Matter: Quality of Life and Population Wellbeing in Post-Transition Economies” organized by the Kyiv School of Economics and VoxUkraine on September 14-15, 2017 in Kyiv in Ukraine. It is supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Available: … Continue reading

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Call for papers until September 30: Labour Conference in Kerela/India

The 59th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) will be held during 16-18 December 2017 in the premises of Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The conference is organized for ISLE by  GIFT … Continue reading

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The Core of Global Scientific Policy Advice: op-ed by Klaus F. Zimmermann

Evidence-based policy making is under attack, evidence-free policy making is on the move.This challenge has been debated in Budapest on two scientific events: (i) The  Academia Europaea 29th Annual Conference 2017 in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, on Tuesday … Continue reading

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# I stand with CEU! Academicians and GLO Fellows debate at CEU in Budapest.

Evidence-free policy making is on the move. This is a particular challenge for the relationship between scientists and policymakers. A workshop with a high-ranked panel of scientists in Budapest engaged in policy advice and policy-making was debating this in the … Continue reading

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Now Published: Left Behind, but Doing Good! Article by Nikolova, Roman & Zimmermann

Nikolova, Milena, Monica Roman & Klaus F. Zimmermann. Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017) 658–684. Now published, article available under: 2017 Nikolova Roman Zimmermann The authors document that migration can … Continue reading

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Andreu Mas-Colell speaks on the future of work

The Academia Europaea (AE), The Academy of Europe, has awarded its prestigious Erasmus Medal in 2017 to Andreu Mas-Colell.  Andreu is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and its section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”, a Fellow of the Global … Continue reading

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