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Category Archives: News
Working from Home, Income Inequality and the Coronavirus
A new GLO Discussion Paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 on working from home and the consequences in Italy: working from home tends to benefit male, older and high-paid employees, as well as those living in provinces more affected by … Continue reading
Cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty among refugees
A new GLO Discussion Paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network … Continue reading
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Implications of Hidden Researcher Decisions for Research Output in Applied Microeconomics.
A new GLO Discussion Paper replicates two published articles by seven independent research teams each to document the huge variety of different research strategies chosen and their large differences in outcomes. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan … Continue reading
Data needs for growth and in crises: Can the Social Media be of help?
Like in the financial market crisis, the world struggles again in the #coronavirus crisis with data needs to proper respond to the challenges. Why are data so important, and why are social media data not a simple solution? Some insights … Continue reading
Strategic Partnership of IESR & GLO
The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) intensify their collaborations, as IESR Director Shuaizhang Feng and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann have declared. IESR Director Shuaizhang Feng has been appointed … Continue reading
Retirement and life satisfaction
A new GLO Discussion Paper contains robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate global research, … Continue reading
Information and communications technology (ICT) impact on the labor market performance of college students
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics finds that information and communications technology (ICT) significantly increases students’ likelihood of obtaining a job offer in the labor market and higher wages. The positive effect comes from students’ increased … Continue reading
Modeling the possibly negative correlation between population growth and productivity growth.
A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics provides a model that can account for the possibly negative correlation between population growth and productivity growth. Read more in: Endogenous education and the reversal in the relationship between fertility … Continue reading
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility in India over a Quarter Century: 1987-2012
A new GLO Discussion Paper uncovers patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution in India over a quarter century. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as … Continue reading
A machine-learning approach to hardly reliable data in the Covid-19 era
A new GLO Discussion Paper investigates Covid-19 infection detection by using a machine learning procedure for hardly reliable data to identify structural breaks. It finds successfully for Italy three structural breaks that can be related to the three different national … Continue reading