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GLO Policy Note No. 4 Theme 2: Inequalities and labor marketsTheme 3: Future of Work Working from home and income inequality in the time of COVID-19 A case study of Italy by Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, Sergio Scicchitano Luca Bonacini … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies a model economy where a firm and its workforce are linked by an implicit contract and examine the dynamic behavioral properties. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading →

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST with free READ ACCESS show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male-to-female sex ratio) induces an increase in the number and a decrease in the quality of children in a reasonable model framework … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews and evaluates the concept of the quality of work and employment including both ‘decent work’ and the narrower concept of ‘job quality’. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading →

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST with free READ ACCESS reveals that girls are mostly unaffected by peers from disrupted families, while boys exhibit more school problems in adolescence and higher arrest probabilities, less stable jobs, and higher probabilities of … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper assesses firm data from World Bank enterprise surveys to obtain lessons from the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an … Continue reading →

Europe decided to abolish daylight saving time in 2021, since the save energy impact is debatable; but so far concrete actions remained elusive. Some evidence should not be overlooked. Based on natural experiments: Stratified demographic analyses for Indiana/USA indicate that … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that seen from an average age-specific life-cycle perspective natives generally make a higher net fiscal contribution than both, intra-EU and extra-EU migrants, while extra-EU migrants contribute on average less than intra-EU migrants. The Global … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that a culture with more gender equality in the country of ancestry of early-arrival first- and second-generation immigrants to the United States may reduce the observed gender commuting gap to/from work. The Global Labor … Continue reading →