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#VeniceFilmFestival: Mexican Filmmaker Michel Franco received the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 2020 for “NEW ORDER”, a “harrowing, ultra-violent coup d’etat thriller” considered to be his “most ambitious & darkest film”.
Announced yesterday night: My Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio 2017 colleague Michel Franco won the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 2020 with his new coup d’etat thriller “New Order” about a distressing drama …. set in a dystopian Mexican … Continue reading
Education and gender role attitudes in China
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds that the extra schooling induced by the compulsory schooling reform from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law in China leads to more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Read more … Continue reading
Excess churn in integrated labor markets.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for Norway evidence of high excess churn rates in firms with many workers from the new EU member states. This leads to a reallocation of labor within … Continue reading
Intra-household bargaining power, surname inheritance, and human capital accumulation.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for China that children whose mothers are younger, more educated, and from regions with a lower sex ratio are more likely to be named after their mother. … Continue reading
Cohort at risk: long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS in the Journal of Population Economics using data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second Intifada shows that an increase in family experience of conflict has large … Continue reading
Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics examines whether female breadwinning makes partnerships less healthy or less stable using more recent US and Australian data. The study finds a much more modest association in both … Continue reading
The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature
A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, the two main channels through which innovation drives growth. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental … Continue reading
Canadian Small Businesses’ Employees and Owners during COVID-19
A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for Canada large decreases in the number of small business owners, the number of employed, and in hours worked, from February to July 2020. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading
Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education: Evidence from India
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies mismatch of workers in the Indian labor market: overeducated workers suffer a wage penalty and undereducated workers do not receive a wage reward as compared to their adequately educated counterparts. The Global Labor Organization … Continue reading
Heterogeneous Shocks in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Panel Evidence from Italian Firms
A new GLO Discussion Paper document stronger shocks for truly innovative companies and effects on long-run growth operating through the disruption of preexisting R&D plans. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as … Continue reading