A new GLO Discussion Paper firstly measures poverty among refugees.
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Author Abstract: The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing a small number of predictors currently available in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically different from the actual poverty rates. The estimates are robust to different poverty lines, they are more accurate than those based on asset indexes or proxy means tests, and they perform well according to targeting indicators. They can also be obtained with relatively small samples. Despite these preliminary encouraging results, it is essential to replicate this experiment across countries using different data sets and welfare aggregates before validating the proposed method.
In the morning of December 12, the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading non-governmental think tank in China dedicated to the study of globalization, received GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann. CCG President Henry Wang (also a GLO Fellow) and his staff discussed cooperation issues of joint interest. With immediate effect, CCG joins the group of supporting institutions of GLO.
After the talk, Zimmermann moved back to Germany. During his one week visit in the Chinese capital, he had given six speeches at public events and in academic seminars and discussed various academic and policy oriented collaborations. Details.
GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann has a history of three decades of collaborations with Chinese academic researchers, has published frequently in Chinese and is since 2006 a Honorary Professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing. During his recent visit to Beijing from December 5 – 12, he first provided a keynote speech to a large international conference on “Vocational Education and Training Development” and spoke at the “Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference on Labor Economics” (First Day && Second Day). He took office at Renmin University of China, and provided a number of seminar presentations to top Beijing Universities and met a number of researchers for research talks:
December 9, Renmin University of China: Seminar on “Publishing in Top Research Journals” with a large group of participants including Deputy Dean and GLO Fellow Zhong Zhao, and GLO Fellows& ProfessorsLiqiu Zhao and Xianqiang Zou.
December 9, Renmin University of China: Meeting with GLO Fellow & Renmin Professor Xiangquan Zeng and his research team discussing a seminar presentation of Shuai Chu.
December 10, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: Seminar speech on “Arsenic in Drinking Water: Health Challenges and Responses” with a large group of participants including host Academia Europaea Member & Professor Desheng Wu and many members of his research team.
December 10, Beijing Normal University (BNU): Seminar speech on “Economic Preferences Across Generations” with a large group of participants including host and GLO Fellow & Professor Chunbing Xing, GLO Fellow & Professor Shi Li (Zhejiang University) and many faculty professors and students of the BNU Business School.
December 11, Peking University, China Center for Agricultural Policy: Seminar speech on “Global Labor Challenges & the B&R Initiative” with a large group of participants including host and GLO Fellow & ProfessorHongmei Yi and many faculty professors and students .
December 9, Renmin University of China
Partners and friends for two decades: Zimmermann & Xiangquan Zeng
Zeng & Zimmermann with Shuai Chu
With Xianqiang Zou after the seminar on “Publications in Top Journals”
December 10, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Desheng Wu (right of Zimmermann) & seminar participants
December 10, Beijing Normal University
From the left: Chengyu Yang, Xiaobing Wang, Li Shi, Zimmermann, GLO Fellow Desheng Lai, Minbo Xu & GLO Fellow Chunbing Xing
December 11, Peking University
Hongmei Yi (left of Zimmermann) and seminar participants
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A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that in Portugal employee representatives foster firm performance through increased training of workers.
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Author Abstract: Employee representatives in firms are a potentially key but not yet studied source of the impact of unions and works councils. Their actions can shape multiple drivers of firm performance, including collective bargaining, strikes, and training. This paper examines the impact of union rep mandates by exploiting legal membership thresholds present in many countries. In the case of Portugal, which we examine here, while firms employing up to 49 union members are required to have one union rep, this increases to two (three) union reps for firms with 50 to 99 (100-199) union members. Drawing on matched employer- employee data on the unionized sector and regression discontinuity methods, we find that a one percentage point increase in the legal union rep/members ratio leads to an increase in firm performance of at least 7%. This result generally holds across multiple dimensions of firm performance and appears to be driven by increased training. However, we find no effects of union reps on firm-level wages, given the predominance of sectoral collective bargaining.
A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that the China-drivenfall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations and reduced the demand for low wage occupations.
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Author Abstract: I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with lower IT prices in sample European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations and reduced the demand for low wage occupations. From 20 to 95 percent of the variation in the demand for occupations stemming from the fall in IT prices can be attributed to the trade with China.
Gautam Hazarika (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Chandan Kumar Jha (Le Moyne College, Madden School of Business), and Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) will receive the 2020 Kuznets Prize for their article (please click title for FREE READ LINK)
which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2019), 32(4), pp. 1101-1123. The annual prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics.
The award will be given to the authors during the ASSA 2020 meeting in San Diego, USA, at a reception on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego, Coronado Room, hosted by the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University.
Biographical Abstracts
Gautam Hazarika is presently Associate Professor of Economics at
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the newest branch of the University
of Texas system. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of
Delhi’s St. Stephen’s College, and his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. His
research has spanned labor and development economics. He is presently conducting
research in economic anthropology. Dr. Hazarika’s research has appeared in such
journals as American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, Review of
Income and Wealth, the Journal of
Development Studies, and, recently, the Journal
of Population Economics.
Chandan Kumar Jha is an Assistant Professor of
Finance at the Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College. He holds a Ph.D.
and an M.S. from Louisiana State University. His research interests lie in the
areas of economic growth and development, political economy, and finance and
development. His current research topics include corruption, gender inequality,
financial risk, and economic and financial reforms. He has published several
research articles in many reputed journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization, the Journal of Population Economics, International Review of
Finance, and Information
Economics and Policy.
Sudipta Sarangi is currently
Department Head and Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University. His research interests range from network theory to
development economics. He studies how gender differences affect economic
activity, as well as the origins of gender inequality. His work on networks
focuses on the strategic formation of social and economic networks and how
participation in multiple networks affects social outcomes. He is a research
associate of DIW Berlin, GATE, University of Lyon-St. Etienne and the Lima
School of Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory
and Studies in Microeconomics.
Hazarika
Jha
Sarangi
Abstract of the Winning Paper
“This paper examines the relationship between
ecological endowments in antiquity and contemporary female to male sex ratios
in the population. It is found that there are proportionately more missing
women in countries whose ancestral ecological endowments were poorer. This
relationship is shown to be strong even after ancestral plough use, the timing
of the Neolithic Transition, and many other potentially confounding factors are
controlled for. Similar results are also obtained using district-level data
from India.”
About the Kuznets Prize
The Journal of Population Economics awards the ‘Kuznets Prize’ for the best paper published in the Journal of Population Economicsin the previous year. Starting from 2014 the Prize has been awarded annually. Papers are judged by the Editors of the Journal.
Simon Kuznets, a pioneer in population economics, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in economics, died on July 10, 1985. Professor Kuznets was born 1901 in Pinsk, Belarus, and came to the United States in 1922. He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1923, a Master of Arts degree in 1924 and his doctorate in 1926, all from Columbia University. During World War II he was Associate Director of the Bureau of Planning and Statistics on the War Production Board, and he served on the staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1927 to 1960. Mr. Kuznets was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for 24 years and Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 until he joined Harvard University in 1960. He retired in 1971 and was given the title of George F. Baker Professor Emeritus of Economics. He was a former president of the American Economic Association and the American Statistical Association.
Previous Winners
The Kuznets Prize (please click titles for READ LINKS FOR FREE) has previously been awarded to:
2016: Loren Brandt (University of Toronto), Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto), and Hui Wang (Peking University) for their article “Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling,” Journal of Population Economics 28: 423-462.
Period 2010-2012: Richard W. Evans (Brigham Young University), Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University) and Zhong Zhao (Renmin University) for their article “The fertility effect of catastrophe: US hurricane births“, Journal of Population Economics 23: 1-36.
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The 2020 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) onJune 18-19 takes place at the University of Zürich organized by the Department of Economics. GLO Fellow and GLO Country Lead Switzerland Rainer Winkelmann heads the Organizing Committee that includes also GLO Fellow David Dorn.
Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2020.All fields of economics and statistics are welcome. PDF Call for Papers.
There will be keynote lectures and special sessions on the topic of Digital Transformation with speakers including: Christina Caffarra (CRA), Hal Varian (Google) and John van Reenen (MIT).
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2020 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics, June 18-19, 2020, Zurich, Switzerland.
The Department of Economics at the University of Zürich is proud to host the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on June 18 (Thursday) and June 19 (Friday), 2020.
Topics
Submissions of papers across all fields of economics and statistics are
welcome. In addition, there will be keynote lectures and special sessions on
the topic of Digital Transformation. Speakers include: Christina
Caffarra (CRA), Hal Varian (Google) and John van Reenen (MIT).
Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit their preliminary or complete papers electronically (PDF files only) to: https://www.sgvs.ch/conferences/sses2020 Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2020.
Papers will be selected by a Program Committee consisting of a panel of
scholars from member institutions of the SSES. The submitting authors will be
notified of the Program Committee’s decision by April
1, 2020, at the latest.
The registration deadline for the conference is May 1, 2020.
Contributed Sessions
In addition, there will be a possibility to propose contributed sessions
(with 3-4 speakers each) on a specific topic. If you are interested, please
write an email with the topic and the names of the contributors by December 31, 2019 at the latest to: rainer.winkelmann@econ.uzh.ch. These proposals will be evaluated and you will be informed about the
decision by January 15, 2020.
SSES Young Economist Award
Authors who wish to be considered for the 2020 SSES Young Economist
Award should indicate this when submitting their paper.
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
A selection of contributions related to the special theme will be
published in a proceedings volume of the Swiss Journal of Economics and
Statistics (http://www.sjes.ch).
Organizing Committee Rainer Winkelmann (Chair), David Dorn, Marek Pycia, Florian Scheuer, Ulrich Woitek
The second day of the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference on Labor Economics in Beijing finished on 8 December 2019. More details and full program; report on day 1; place: North Hall, Century Hall, RUC.
The first day of the Second GLO – Renmin University of China Conference on Labor Economics in Beijing finished on 7 December 2019. More details and full program; place: North Hall, Century Hall, RUC. Conference organizers are GLO Fellows Corrado Giulietti and Jun Han. The event is part of the GLO China Research Cluster, which is lead by Corrado Giulietti, who is also a GLO Research Director.
The conference was opened by Corrado Giulietti, Jun Han, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann, and Deputy Dean and GLO Fellow Zhong Zhao.
Keynote speakers of the event were GLO FellowsShi Li of Zhejiang University and Xi Chen of Yale University. The conference saw 8 further paper presentations.
GLO Director Matloob Piracha will give one of the 5 papers scheduled on Sunday, the second day of the event.
Speaking: Klaus F. Zimmermann
Speaking: Zhong Zhao
Speaking: Shi Li
From the left: Corrado Giulietti, Jun Han, Matloob Piracha, Xi Chen, Xianqiang Zou, and Zhangfeng Jin
On his one-week trip to Beijing/China, Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and Bonn University, arrived on December 5 to participate in a one-day event:
For the Future: International Conference on Vocational Education and Training Development
The event took place in the Conference Center, Beijing International Hotel, Beijing/China. It was hosted by the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) and The Chinese Society of Technical and Vocational Education (CSTVE) and supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Development Research Center of the State Council.
Next to following an intensive program with over 300 participants, Zimmermann was the Luncheon Keynote Speaker on the topic “Vocational Education & Training: Socio-Economic Sustainable Development“.
Key topics:
Vocational systems and youth unemployment
A roadmap to vocational education and training
General education versus vocational education
Challenges in the digital age
Central messages:
The Youth-to-Adult Unemployment Ratio of Germany With Its Dual Vocational Training System is Far Below Others in the Western World.
Vocational systems are a valued alternative beyond the core of general education.
Vocational high school graduates have better employment outcomes than general high school graduates.
The dual system is more effective in helping youth transition into employment than alternative academic or vocational training.
In the digital age, ICT skills are obviously important, but success comes with the development of non-cognitive skills.
Selective references:
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Costanza Biavaschi, Werner Eichhorst, Corrado Giulietti, Michael J. Kendzia, Alexander Muravyev, Janneke Pieters, Núria Rodríguez-Planas & Ricarda Schmidl (2013), Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training”, Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics (2013), 9: 1-157.
Werner Eichhorst, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl & Klaus F. Zimmermann, A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries, Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2015), 68: 314-337.
Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Ulf Rinne & Klaus F. Zimmermann, Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, (2013), 2:18
Huzeyfe Torun & Semih Tumen, Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Qutcomes Than General High School Graduates?, International Journal of Manpower (2019), 40: 1364-1388.
Shubha Jayaram, Tara Hill & Daniel Plaut, Training Models for Employment in the Digital Economy, Results for Development Institute (2013).
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