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Air Pollution, Morbidity and Mental Disorders in China

Posted on February 26, 2020 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that air pollution accounts for substantial morbidity and economic burden of mental disorders in China. 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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Second GLO-Renmin University Labor Economics Conference in Beijing: December 7-8, 2019.

Posted on December 6, 2019 by admin

Labor market issues will play the major role at the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference in Beijing on 7-8 December 2019. Keynote speakers of the event are GLO Fellows Shi Li of Zhejiang University and Xi Chen … Continue reading →

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Impressions from a conference keynote in Sydney, November 11, 2019.

Posted on November 18, 2019 by admin

Health, Inequality and Behavior: GLO – supported Workshop on November 11-13 at Macquarie University, Sydney/Australia. More details see: KFZ-1, KFZ-2 and GLO. Ends;

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September 23, 2019. ‘Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies’. A new GLO Discussion Paper.

Posted on September 23, 2019 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper provides an updated picture of main empirical evidence on the relationship between new technologies and employment. 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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September 3, 2019. A Simple Solution to the Problem of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in Choo and Siow Marriage Market Model. New Research from the GLO Network.

Posted on September 3, 2019 by admin

A new GLO Discussion Paper proposes a simple solution to the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) problem in the Choo and Siow (2006) model. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor that improves its empirical properties. … Continue reading →

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August 30, 2019. ‘Longevity-induced vertical innovation and the tradeoff between life and growth’: Now published in the Journal of Population Economics.

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

The article concludes that the debate on rising health care expenditures should not be predominantly based on the growth effects of health care. Read more in: Annarita Baldanzi, Klaus Prettner & Paul TscheuschnerLongevity-induced vertical innovation and the tradeoff between life … Continue reading →

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EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann meets Noor Azina Ismail of the University of Malaya and Jonathan A. Batten of Universiti Utara Malaysia during his tenure as Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.

Posted on March 17, 2019 by admin

Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University) is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). Zimmermann in his role as EBES President is the recent successor of Jonathan … Continue reading →

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60th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics ended in Mumbai

Posted on December 22, 2018 by admin

On December 16, Klaus F. Zimmermann had moved from Seoul/South Korea to Mumbai/ India, to participate at the 60th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), which took place on 19-21 December at the Indira Gandhi Institute … 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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Public Policy Lecture on European Migration Challenges: GLO President Zimmermann spoke at Jinan University

Posted on March 30, 2018 by admin

The President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht), visited Jinan University in Guangzhou/China from March 11 to March 20 on the invitation of Dean Shuaizhang Feng, Head of the Institute for Economic and Social Research … Continue reading →

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