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Category Archives: Research
Long Live the Vacancy
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the role of long-term vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model calibrated to the US economy and identifies a vacancy depletion channel. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading
Pay Gaps and Mobility for Lower and Upper Tier Informal Sector Employees: an investigation of the Turkish labor market
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the wage gap between formal and informal sector workers in Turkey confirming that an informal wage penalty is persistent even after unobserved heterogeneity is taken into account. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an … Continue reading
Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism: Evidence from Two Quasi-Natural Experiments in the United States
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the effects of unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading
Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria
A new GLO Discussion Paper quantifies the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions … Continue reading
Education and gender role attitudes in China
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds that the extra schooling induced by the compulsory schooling reform from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law in China leads to more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Read more … Continue reading
Excess churn in integrated labor markets.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for Norway evidence of high excess churn rates in firms with many workers from the new EU member states. This leads to a reallocation of labor within … Continue reading
Intra-household bargaining power, surname inheritance, and human capital accumulation.
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics finds for China that children whose mothers are younger, more educated, and from regions with a lower sex ratio are more likely to be named after their mother. … Continue reading
Cohort at risk: long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS in the Journal of Population Economics using data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second Intifada shows that an increase in family experience of conflict has large … Continue reading
Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
A new paper published ONLINE FIRST in the Journal of Population Economics examines whether female breadwinning makes partnerships less healthy or less stable using more recent US and Australian data. The study finds a much more modest association in both … Continue reading
The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature
A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, the two main channels through which innovation drives growth. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental … Continue reading