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Due Process for Professor Andreu Mas-Colell

In an unusual move, Alex Mas, Professor at Princeton University, has made public the serious trouble his father Andreu Mas-Colell is confronted with: https://twitter.com/AlexMasPton/status/1404438469057863683 To raise the public attention on this case, Dora Costa, Professor of Economics, UCLA has started … Continue reading

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Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among … Continue reading

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Invitation to participate: Fourth IESR-GLO Conference on ‘Social Safety Net and Welfare Programs’ online on June 24-26, 2021. Program and registration information.

The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) are jointly organizing the Fourth IESR-GLO Virtual Conference. The conference this year will be held from June 24 (Thursday) to June 26 (Saturday), … Continue reading

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews migration out of the UK after Brexit and Covid-19, and discusses possible future flows and impacts. GLO Discussion Paper No. 854, 2021 Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit – Download PDFby Portes, Jonathan … Continue reading

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School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Japan that during Covid-19 school closures increased the inequality of mental health between genders and parents with different educational backgrounds. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading

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Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Portugal’s wage gap between vocational and general secondary education no support for either the human capital prediction of crossing wage profiles or the hypothesis that general graduates increasingly outperform vocational … Continue reading

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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Germany that among the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are about one-third more likely to experience income losses than … Continue reading

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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from a choice experiment.

A new GLO Discussion Paper indicates that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behavior lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect. GLO Discussion Paper No. 856, 2021 Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from … Continue reading

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Wage Theft, Economic Conditions, and Market Power: The Case of H-1B Workers

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews employers’ violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas to the US; higher labor market power is associated with fewer violations, higher unemployment rates and subcontractor firms are associated with … Continue reading

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Global Insights – eine Meinung: Arbeiten bis 70 notwendig. Lebensrealitäten Ernst nehmen.

Wann will sich die politische Klasse Deutschlands den demographischen Realitäten stellen? Gerade hat der Wissenschaftliche Beirat des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums die Rente mit 68 gefordert und eine Regelbindung des Ruhestandsalters an das Lebensalter vorgeschlagen. Das Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft hält gar die … Continue reading

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