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Last day & flashlights of previous days: Fourth IESR-GLO Conference on ‘Social Safety Net and Welfare Programs’ online on June 24-26, 2021. Reminder – SESSION STARTS SOON with keynote of Timothy Smeeding.

The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) are jointly organizing the Fourth IESR-GLO Virtual Conference. The conference this year is held from June 24 (Thursday) to June 26 (Saturday), 2021 … Continue reading

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Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors

Using data for young Romanians, a new GLO Discussion Paper finds that it is external religiosity that interacts with weaker addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and using drugs. GLO Discussion Paper No. 859, 2021 Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors … Continue reading

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Does vocational education pay better, or worse, than academic education?

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for China that vocational upper secondary graduates face a wage penalty compared to academic upper secondary graduates. GLO Discussion Paper No. 858, 2021 Does vocational education pay better, or worse, than academic education? – … Continue reading

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Confidence in public institutions is critical in containing the COVID-19 pandemic

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that confidence in public institutions is one of the most important predictors of deaths attributed to COVID-19. GLO Discussion Paper No. 861, 2021 Confidence in public institutions is critical in containing the COVID-19 pandemic … Continue reading

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Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible demonstrate for Italy that supervised machine learning techniques outperform the official statistical method by substantially improving the prediction accuracy of local mortality. Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy by … Continue reading

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Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for the USA that mobility decreases significantly more in high-trust counties than in low-trust counties after stay-at-home orders are implemented. Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust by Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva … Continue reading

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Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among … Continue reading

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Invitation to participate: Fourth IESR-GLO Conference on ‘Social Safety Net and Welfare Programs’ online on June 24-26, 2021. Program and registration information.

The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) are jointly organizing the Fourth IESR-GLO Virtual Conference. The conference this year will be held from June 24 (Thursday) to June 26 (Saturday), … Continue reading

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews migration out of the UK after Brexit and Covid-19, and discusses possible future flows and impacts. GLO Discussion Paper No. 854, 2021 Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit – Download PDFby Portes, Jonathan … Continue reading

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School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Japan that during Covid-19 school closures increased the inequality of mental health between genders and parents with different educational backgrounds. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading

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