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Weathering the storm: weather shocks and international labor migration from the Philippines
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics finds that Filipinos are more likely to work abroad when they experience less-intense tropical cyclones and storm warnings but are more likely to stay when very intense storms occur or … Continue reading
Prenatal exposure to temperature extremes and birth outcomes
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics finds substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular, prenatal exposure to heat waves has stronger negative effects than exposure to cold spells on … Continue reading
Why is fertility on the rise in Egypt?
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics indicates that the decrease in public sector employment, which is particularly appealing to women, may have contributed to the recent rise in fertility in Egypt. Read more in: Why is … Continue reading
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Beauty and job accessibility in China.
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics confirms a direct causal relationship between appearance and employment in China. Read more in: Beauty and job accessibility: new evidence from a field experiment Weiguang Deng, Dayang Li & Dong … Continue reading
The incapacitation effect of schooling on Roma women.
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics finds that raising the school leaving age can be effective in reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancy among socially excluded women, even if it does not affect the general population. … Continue reading
REMINDER: Deadline for Applications: August 20, 2020 for the 2020-21 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
Completing a very successful first cohort 2019-20, Global Labor Organization (GLO) invites interested young scholars to apply for participation in the GLO VirtYS Program. Application deadline: August 20, 2020, 5 pm GMT More Information. PDF of the call. GLO VirtYS … Continue reading
Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 transition countries.
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics finds that risk aversion has a robust and statistically significant negative impact on willingness to migrate within countries as well as abroad. Read more in: Risk aversion and the willingness … Continue reading
Research Report on Unreported Family Workers in Pre-Civil War United States is GLO Discussion Paper of the Month July.
The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of July finds that the inclusion of family workers more than triples the free female labor force participation rate in the 1860 Census of the USA, from 16 percent to 56 percent, which … Continue reading
Research Article in the Journal of Population Economics: Names and Behavior in the Croatian War.
In GLO Discussion Paper No. 450, GLO Fellows Stepan Jurajda and Dejan Kovač have recently provided research evidence revealing that given first names of leaders from World War II can predict behavior in the 1991-1995 Croatian war of independence and … Continue reading
Imperfect Mobility
A new GLO Discussion Paper uses a Markov chain to model the spatial dynamics of the population distribution for microdata from the American Community Survey. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as … Continue reading