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COVID-19 labour market shocks and their inequality implications for financial wellbeing
A new GLO Discussion Paper indicates that the negative COVID-19 labour market effects are felt the most by people in the lowest percentiles of the financial wellbeing distribution suggesting significant increases in financial wellbeing disadvantage and inequality. The Global Labor … Continue reading
2021 Kuznets Prize of the Journal of Population Economics Awarded to Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, and Wei Shi.
2021 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, & Wei Shi as announced by the office of the Journal of Population Economics. Yun Qiu (Jinan University), Xi Chen (Yale University), and Wei Shi (Jinan University) will receive the 2021 … Continue reading
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The effect of paid vacation on health: evidence from Sweden.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics challenges the anecdotal view of additional paid vacation days as an adequate means to improve workers’ health. Read more in: The effect of paid vacation on health: evidence … Continue reading
Working from home and income inequality: risks of a ‘new normal’ with COVID-19
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics investigates for the Italian case the effects of working from home on income inequality at the time of COVID-19 and the implications for the future. Read more in: Working from … Continue reading
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Second Webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20: Report and Video.
Second webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20 All the presentation in this series are based on the projects that GLO-VirtYS program scholars completed as part of their program participation. September 17th Program Sydney (10pm), Beijing … Continue reading
Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics provides global evidence that the U-shaped happiness-age curve is everywhere. Read more in: Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries David G. Blanchflower Published … Continue reading
Long Live the Vacancy
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the role of long-term vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model calibrated to the US economy and identifies a vacancy depletion channel. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading
Pay Gaps and Mobility for Lower and Upper Tier Informal Sector Employees: an investigation of the Turkish labor market
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the wage gap between formal and informal sector workers in Turkey confirming that an informal wage penalty is persistent even after unobserved heterogeneity is taken into account. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an … Continue reading
Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism: Evidence from Two Quasi-Natural Experiments in the United States
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the effects of unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading
Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria
A new GLO Discussion Paper quantifies the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions … Continue reading