Category Archives: Research

New research on “Hiring & Employment Discrimination”

Posted on July 16, 2018 by admin

A special issue of the International Journal of Manpower on “Hiring Discrimination” has just been published under the editorship of three Fellows of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). ***Special Issue on Hiring Discrimination*** GLO Fellows Nick Drydakis, Stijn Baert, and … Continue reading →

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GLO President Zimmermann will support the 2018 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics in Xiamen/China.

Posted on July 8, 2018 by admin

The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, China, is organizing on the 8-9 December the 2018 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics together with the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University, and … Continue reading →

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Immigration leads to lower physical burden and injury risk among native workers: New GLO Research Paper & other fresh research

Posted on July 2, 2018 by admin

Titles and free access/links to GLO Discussion Papers GLO Discussion Papers are research and policy papers of the GLO Network which are widely circulated to encourage discussion. Provided in cooperation with EconStor, a service of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for … Continue reading →

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Danny Blanchflower: A Social Media Star becomes GLO Research Director

Posted on June 28, 2018 by admin

David Blanchflower is the Bruce V Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, part-time professor at the University of Stirling, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was an external member of the … Continue reading →

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GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann speaks at the UNU-MERIT Internal Conference 2018 in Maastricht

Posted on June 26, 2018 by admin

Alessio J. G. Brown and Klaus F. Zimmermann are both Co-Directors of POP at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University and affiliated with the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Both visit Maastricht on June 26 – 28, 2018 to participate at the UNU-MERIT … Continue reading →

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Founder of Unified Growth Theory Oded Galor of Brown University Appointed Editor. He Reflects on Publishing Research in Population Economics

Posted on June 25, 2018 by admin

On 1 July 2018, Oded Galor becomes Editor of the Journal of Population Economics following Erdal Tekin, who has taken the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) (see for further details). Galor joins the … Continue reading →

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GLO Fellow Erdal Tekin edits Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) starting 1 July 2018. Interview with him about policy research and publishing.

Posted on June 25, 2018 by admin

On 1 July 2018, Erdal Tekin becomes the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM). His role as Editor of the Journal of Population Economics will be taken by Oded Galor. For an interview with Erdal Tekin … Continue reading →

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Journal of Population Economics. The new Report of the Editor-in-Chief available: Improved strong performance of the top journal in population economics

Posted on June 24, 2018 by admin

The Journal of Population of Economics is an international quarterly research journal that publishes original theoretical and applied contributions on the economics of population, household, and human resources. It is owned by Springer Nature and operates from POP at UNU-MERIT, … Continue reading →

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GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann will be a keynote speaker at Chinese Labor Market conference in Beijing October 20-21, 2018

Posted on June 22, 2018 by admin

The School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China (Beijing) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) have just announced the creation of a new conference series on issues related to the Chinese labor market. The first event … Continue reading →

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Second Conference of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) in Seoul on 13-15 December 2018

Posted on June 6, 2018 by admin

The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) was founded in 2017 to promote research and cooperation in Labour and Applied Economics across Asia and Australasia. The second conference will take place on 13 – 15 December 2018 at … Continue reading →

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