Category Archives: Research

Health and crime impacts of daylight saving.

Europe decided to abolish daylight saving time in 2021, since the save energy impact is debatable; but so far concrete actions remained elusive. Some evidence should not be overlooked. Based on natural experiments: Stratified demographic analyses for Indiana/USA indicate that … Continue reading

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The fiscal impact of immigration in the EU

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that seen from an average age-specific life-cycle perspective natives generally make a higher net fiscal contribution than both, intra-EU and extra-EU migrants, while extra-EU migrants contribute on average less than intra-EU migrants. The Global … Continue reading

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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap: Evidence from immigrants in the United States

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that a culture with more gender equality in the country of ancestry of early-arrival first- and second-generation immigrants to the United States may reduce the observed gender commuting gap to/from work. The Global Labor … Continue reading

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Is Influence in Economics Aging?

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that ranking among leading economists peak at age 60 or 30 years after Ph.D. graduation, but Nobel laureates do not experience deterioration. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading

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Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.: New paper published OPEN ACCESS freely available ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Neeraj Kaushal & Ashley N. Muchow.

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics finds that adopting safer-at-home orders or non-essential business closures 1 day before infections double can curtail the COVID-19 death rate by 1.9%. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an … Continue reading

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On Synthetic Income Panels.

A new GLO Discussion Paper provides methodological advances to develop synthetic panels based on matching individuals with the same time-invariant characteristics in consecutive cross-sections to improve the potentials for analysis. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading

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Personal Characteristics and Intention for Entrepreneurship.

A new GLO Discussion Paper identifies the characteristics of senior university students in Turkey to understand and enhance entrepreneurship potential. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual … Continue reading

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Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for India gender equality in absolute intergenerational educational mobility for children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading

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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples.

A new GLO Discussion Paper uses UK longitudinal data to investigate within households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their partner to find no evidence of … Continue reading

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New Website of the Databank of the Center for Economic and Regional Studies – Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a partner organization of the GLO.

Since 2019 the Databank of the Center for Economic and Regional Studies (CERS) – Hungarian Academy of Sciences is a strategic partner of GLO. The data service has been improved by the availability of a new website. Those interested working … Continue reading

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