Category Archives: Research

Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that the successful lockdown in Vietnam kept mortality amazingly low, but had negative effects on unemployment, the temporary layoff rate, and the quality of employment. It also reduced workers’ numbers of working hours and … Continue reading

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Children and labor market outcomes: separating the effects of the first three children.

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics finds for Norway that miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility has similar negative effects for all three children on female earnings in the short-run, while a catch up … Continue reading

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Health spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia.

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics examined a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia to show that it leads to an improvement in the health of non-targeted individuals in treatment households in terms of both … Continue reading

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Identifying ethnic occupational segregation.

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics is studying Russian immigrants in the early twentieth century USA to find high degrees of occupational segregation. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading

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Fertility versus productivity: a model of growth with evolutionary equilibria – new paper open access in the Journal of Population Economics

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics suggests on the basis of a historical model analysis that England’s escape from the Malthusian trap was triggered by the demographic catastrophes in the aftermath of the Black Death. … Continue reading

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GLO and CU-COLLAR at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand affiliate.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Collaborating Centre for Labour Research (CU-COLLAR) at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand affiliate. The two organizations will support each other in their common missions on research and educational issues. CU-COLLAR will provide the local … Continue reading

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Productivity outcomes in online labor markets and within-task complexity and difficultly.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that the productivity measures used of workers are negatively related to the difficulty and complexity of a specific sub-task. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as … Continue reading

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Identity and Learning: a study on the effect of student-teacher gender matching on learning outcomes

A new GLO Discussion Paper examines whether students’ and teachers’ identity play any role in the learning outcome of students. 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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Price, sales, and the business cycle: a time series principal component analysis.

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds a positive and significant relationship between sales and unemployment, and performs a time series principal component analysis to study the relationship. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading

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Happiness Research: GLO/EHERO Special Sessions Announcement and Call for Contributions. Event is August 2021.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO) are organizing several special sessions at the ISQOLS Annual Virtual Conference in August 2021 (specific dates to be announced).  The sessions will include high-quality presentations related to cutting-edge research in the … Continue reading

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