New research from the GLO network: Childcare in Vietnam – how Asian females perform in the labor market. And free access to all GLO research papers from May 2019.

Posted on June 25, 2019 by admin

Accessible childcare services enhance women’s labor market performances and reduce gender gaps, now supported by research for Vietnam. The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of May 2019  explores the relationship between the use and availability of childcare and maternal employment in the context of this emerging Asian country.

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 Economics, GLO Discussion Papers are among others listed in RePEc (see IDEAS, EconPapers). Complete list of all GLO DPs downloadable for free.

GLO Discussion Paper of the Month: May

GLO Discussion Paper No. 349 Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Hiraga, Masako & Nguyen, Cuong Viet

GLO Fellow Hai-Anh Dang

Abstract:   Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill this gap by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues with a regression discontinuity estimator based on children’s birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women’s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare attendance differ by women’s characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women. Furthermore, childcare has a medium-term effect and positively impacts men’s labor market outcomes as well.

GLO Discussion Papers of May 2019

353 The Effect of 9/11 on Immigrants’ Ethnic Identity and Employment: Evidence from Germany – Download PDF
by Delaporte, Isaure

352 The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European union   – Download PDF
by O’Connor, Kelsey J.

351 Who is in favor of immigration – Download PDF
by Epstein, Gil S. & Katav-Herz, Shirit

350 The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited – Download PDF
by Ingwersen, Kai & Thomsen, Stephan L.

349 Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Hiraga, Masako & Nguyen, Cuong Viet

348 Employment Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Regulations – Download PDF
by Payson, Steven & Sloboda, Brian W.

347 Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany – Download PDF
by Jirjahn, Uwe & Mohrenweiser, Jens

346 The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey – Download PDF
by Baltagi, Badi H. & Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso & Karatas, Haci M.

345 Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants: Evidence from France – Download PDF
by Delaporte, Isaure

GLO DP Team
Senior Editors: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent) & GLO; Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University).
Managing Editor: Magdalena Ulceluse, University of Groningen. DP@glabor.org  

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From walls to seawalls: Climate change is predicted to redesign the game of walls worldwide.

Posted on June 24, 2019 by admin

The United States is still debating its wall with Mexico. As Victoria Vernon & Klaus F. Zimmermann have documented, building walls between countries has become fashion over recent decades signalling the widespread rising fears about globalization. The number of walls have increased from under 10 to nearly 80 within half of a century.

GLO Discussion Paper No. 330, 2019. Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics – Download PDF
by Vernon, Victoria & Zimmermann, Klaus F.

Now climate change may bring a dramatic shift into the game of walls: “Even though estimates about rising sea levels vary, the Center for Climate Integrity has published an analysis which estimates that the U.S. will have to invest $416 billion in constructing seawalls between now and 2040. At state level, Florida is expected to have to spend $76 billion on seawalls over the next two decades with while Louisiana will have the second-highest bill at $38 billion. ” (statista, see also chart below.)

Will climate change soon replace our fears about migration? Surely not, since forced mass migration is already predicted around the world as a consequence of rising sea levels.

A recent novel has thought the (our?) story to the end:

John Lanchester: The Wall, Faber & Faber, Ltd. London, 2019.

After the change, Britain is surrounded by a wall facing endless water. The Young have to serve on the wall as Defenders to kill the Others as soon as they attack as boat people to invade the island. Shooting climate refugees is a daily business. A brutal, if not boring exercise where some Defenders are forced to become Others and are lost on the sea, with a surviving couple left alone with their love.

More statista details for an analysis behind the figure.

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June 20, 2019. GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann spoke in a crowded research seminar at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest on global labor economics.

Posted on June 21, 2019 by admin

On June 20, 2019 Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization and currently George Soros Visiting Chair at the Central European University, was visiting the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to deliver a research seminar on “Global Labor Economics: Challenges and Benefits”. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus of Bonn University, is also the Section Chair of “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” of the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe. A large audience crowded the room during the seminar which was chaired by János Köllő, who is also a member of the Academia Europaea.

Left: Zimmermann in front of the Academy; right: With János Köllő

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The Future of Europe after the European Elections. Public Debate at the Central European University, Budapest, on June 5, 2019.

Posted on June 5, 2019 by admin

Quo Vadis Europe after the European elections? Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (both Budapest) debated on June 5, 2019 with Elsa Fornero (Turin) and Jonathan Portes (London) the consequences and perspectives for Europe in front of a larger audience. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), was chairing and moderating the event; Fornero, Kahanec and Portes are GLO Fellows.

From the left during the panel: Klaus F. Zimmermann, Chair, Budapest and Bonn; Jonathan Portes, London; Elsa Fornero, Turin; and Martin Kahanec, Budapest and Vienna.

After the panel during a joint dinner from the left: NE-D Senator Tanya Cook, USA; CEU Professor Anil Duman and GLO Fellow; Turin Professor and Former Labor Minister Elsa Fornero; CEU Dean and Professor Martin Kahanec; and Klaus F. Zimmermann, George Soros Chair, CEU, and GLO President.

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GLO President Zimmermann was visiting the Romanian National Bank in Bucharest

Posted on June 5, 2019 by admin

On May 31, Klaus F. Zimmermann (President GLO & EBES, and George Soros Chair at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, participated and spoke in Brasov/Romania at the conference„Inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Challenges, measures and solutions” (ISEG 2019). See Report.

On June 2, he moved to Bucharest to speak on June 4 at a large and well attended internal seminar of the Romanian Central Bank followed by an intensive exchange with the staff of the bank. The topic of the lecture at the bank was: “Labor Mobility after the European Elections”. He returned to Budapest on June 4 in the night.

The hands on the gold reserves of the Romanian National Bank:

Front and back sides of the Romanian National Bank in the Old Town of Bucharest

Impressions from Bucharest Old Town with farewell music

Farewell concert in Brasov on June 2, 2019.

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Conference Program Out for Kigali June 12-14, 2019: 4th International Conference of Eastern Africa Business and Economic Watch (4th EABEW-2019)

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

The conference (see further information) takes place at the College of Business and Economics, University of Rwanda, with GLO support. GLO Fellows Manfred Fischedick, Almas Heshmati and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann are among the invited speakers. Almas Heshmati is the academic Lead of the GLO Research Cluster on “Labor Markets in Africa”. GLO Fellow Rama B. Rao is the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the conference. GLO President and George Soros Chair at the Central European University (CEU) Zimmermann will speak about “The value of global labor mobility”. The preliminary program is out.

  • With Rama B. Rao
  • With Paul Collier
  • All at event in Kigali in December 2019

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Klaus F. Zimmermann visits Brasov in Romania

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

On May 31, Klaus F. Zimmermann (President GLO & EBES, and George Soros Chair at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, participated in Brasov/Romania in the conference „Inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Challenges, measures and solutions” (ISEG 2019).

The event was organized by the Transilvania University of Brasov and supported by the Institute for Economic Forecasting of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, and GLO. The keynote speakers were Alexandru Minea (University of Auvergne), Jeffrey A. Robinson (Rutgers Business School) and Klaus F. Zimmermann. Zimmermann spoke about “Pushing for quality research: Publishing in good journals”. The full program can be found here.

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GLO & EBES President spoke in Coventry/UK on May 29.

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

May 29-31: Coventry, UK. 28th EBES conference. The Eurasia Business and Economics Society(EBES) met with support of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) at the Coventry Business School. For the full program see here. EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann, who is also the President of GLO and George Soros Chair at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, had opened the EBES congress in the morning with his welcome speech.

EBES President Zimmermann and the Conference Team (from the left):
Aylin Akin, Merve Erdemir, Ugur Can and Ender Demir.

On May 29, GLO members were involved in two important conference panel sessions:

EBES & GLO Panel on “The Future of Europe and Brexit after the EU Elections”:

09:30-10:30
Chair & Introduction: Klaus F. Zimmermann, President, EBES & GLO & Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, EBES, GLO, & Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Matloob Piracha, Director GLO & University of Kent, United Kingdom
Dorothea Schäfer, DIW Berlin, GLO, & Jönköping University, Sweden
Marco Vivarelli, GLO& Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano, Italy

JOURNAL EDITORS SPECIAL SESSION: How to Publish in WOS Journals?

14:30-15:50
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Population Economics (SSCI)
David B. Audretsch, Editor-in-Chief, Small Business Economics (SSCI)
Marco Vivarelli, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Business Review (SSCI)
Dorothea Schäfer, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Economic Review (Scopus & ESCI)

Editor-in-Chiefs (from the right): David Audretsch (Small Business Economics), Marco Vivarelli (Eurasia Business Review) & Klaus F. Zimmermann (Journal of Population Economics) — all present in Coventry
EBES Editor-in-Chiefs Dorothea Schäfer (Eurasia Economics Review) & Marco Vivarelli with a large number of conference participants.

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Re-visiting Romania: GLO President speaks in the next days at two events.

Posted on May 28, 2019 by admin

Klaus F. Zimmermann is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and George Soros Chair at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. During his one-week-visit to Romania, he will speak at two events.

31 May – June 1: Transilvania University of Brasov

International Conference „Inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Challenges, measures and solutions” (ISEG 2019)

Organized by the Transilvania University of Brasov and supported by the Institute for Economic Forecasting of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, and GLO.

The keynote speakers are Alexandru Minea (University of Auvergne), Jeffrey A. Robinson (Rutgers Business School) and Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Klaus F. Zimmermann will speak about “Pushing for quality research: Publishing in good journals”.

June 4: National Bank of Romania, Bucharest

Internal speech on “Labor Mobility after the European Elections”

2016 in front of the Academia Romana in Bucharest

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EBES President visits Coventry Business School on May 28-29, 2019

Posted on May 27, 2019 by admin

May 29-31: Coventry, UK. 28th EBES conference.The Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) meets with support of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) at the Coventry Business School. For the full program see here.

EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann, who is also the President of GLO, will open the EBES congress on Wednesday. GLO members are involved in two important conference panel sessions, among others, on Wednesday May 29:

EBES & GLO Panel on “The Future of Europe and Brexit after the EU Election”:

09:30-10:30
Chair & Introduction: Klaus F. Zimmermann, President, EBES & GLO & Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, EBES, GLO, & Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Matloob Piracha, Director GLO & University of Kent, United Kingdom
Dorothea Schäfer, DIW Berlin, GLO, & Jönköping University, Sweden
Marco Vivarelli, GLO& Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano, Italy

JOURNAL EDITORS SPECIAL SESSION: How to Publish in WOS Journals?

14:30-15:50
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Population Economics (SSCI)
David B. Audretsch, Editor-in-Chief, Small Business Economics (SSCI)
Marco Vivarelli, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Business Review (SSCI)
Dorothea Schäfer, Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Economic Review (Scopus & ESCI)

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