Category Archives: Research

Educational Mismatches of Newly Hired Workers: Short and Medium-run Effects on Wages

A new GLO Discussion Paper analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers in Portugal. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an … Continue reading

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‘The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans’. Video from the GLO Virtual Seminar Series with GLO Fellow Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Syracuse University).

The GLO Virtual Seminar is a monthly internal GLO research event chaired by GLO Director Matloob Piracha and hosted by the GLO partner institution University of Kent. The results are available on the GLO website and the GLO News section, … Continue reading

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How to get true Covid-19 Mortality Rates from Administrative Data? Read an article free access in the Journal of Population Economics.

A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics demonstrates how to use administrative data to estimate the number of deaths, the number of infections, and mortality rates from Covid-19 in Lombardia, a hot spot of the disease … Continue reading

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Obamacare: Does the US health care reform work?

A new GLO Discussion Paper develops and applies a new econometric identification strategy to evaluate the causal effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on older Americans’ health care access and utilization with problematic findings for the reform. The Global … Continue reading

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Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa.

A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that access to finance affects employment growth in small and medium-sized enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and … Continue reading

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Non-Standard Employment and Wage Differences across Gender

A new GLO Discussion Paper shows for Turkey that non-standard employment reduces wages for women at every quantile, but no such results are obtained for men. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions … Continue reading

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Daylight reduces crime. New scientific evidence.

A new GLO Discussion Paper contributes to the rising literature on the impact of natural light on economic behavior. Using Daylight Saving Time as a natural experiment it finds that the increase of light has reduced crime in Montevideo strongly. … Continue reading

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Labor Market Effects of a Work-first Policy for Refugees

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the labor market effects of a work-first policy that aimed at speeding up the labor market integration of refugees. New requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on-the-job training … Continue reading

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for Sweden a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an … Continue reading

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Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies adolescent girls’ attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using data from rural Bangladesh. It further investigates how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh. The Global Labor … Continue reading

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