Sexual Orientation and the Labor Market: Deadline for Paper Submissions now until March 30, 2019

Posted on August 17, 2018 by admin

Call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Manpower  on: “Sexual Orientation and the Labor Market“.

For Details: GLO Website. Journal Website.

Submissions will be accepted from now on until March 30, 2019.

The issue is edited by Nick Drydakis (Anglia Ruskin University, University of Cambridge, IZA, and GLO) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, CEPR and GLO).

An initiative of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), this project is related to the GLO Thematic Cluster on “Gender, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Outcomes” headed by Nick Drydakis.

Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, CEPR and GLO):

Nick Drydakis (Anglia Ruskin University, University of Cambridge, IZA and GLO):

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Zimmermann is Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China in October 2018

Posted on August 15, 2018 by admin

In all over October 2018, Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University will be Visiting Professor at the famous Renmin University of China, Beijing. Since 2006 Zimmermann is Honorary Professor of the university and has long-term academic relationships with Chinese scholars going back to his tenure as Full Professor at the University of Munich (1989-1998).

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Honorary Professorship for Zimmermann at Renmin University on December 20, 2006. Zimmermann at the right. Sitting at the left, then Dean & Professor Xiangquan Zeng, now a long-term academic partner and GLO Fellow.

The School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China (Beijing) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) had recently announced the creation of a new conference series on issues related to the Chinese labor market. The first event will take place on 20 and 21 October 2018 at Renmin University of China during Zimmermann‘s visit to Beijing. At the conference, Zimmermann will provide a keynote lecture. The deadline for submitting contributions is 15 August 2018.

On October 31 – November 2, Zimmermann will visit Hong Kong to provide a keynote speech at a conference on Climate Change and Human Responses. The conference is a joint venture of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), FOM University of Applied Sciences and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).

In December 8-9, Zimmermann will return to China. The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, is organizing the 2018 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics together with the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University, and the Department of Economics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In March 2018, Zimmermann had already visited the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University for an intensive academic visit, a GLO-IESR labor workshop, and various seminars and research talks (see links below).

These visits complement the intensive engagements Zimmermann had over the years during his tenures at the University of Munich and University of Bonn for three decades.

The China 2018 program of Zimmermann

Further 2018/2019 travel details.

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Reminder: Submission Deadline is August 15 for Conference on the Chinese labor market in Beijing on 20-21 October 2018

Posted on August 1, 2018 by admin

The School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China (Beijing) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) announce the creation of a new conference series on issues related to the Chinese labor market. The first event will take place on 20 and 21 October 2018 at Renmin University of China, Beijing. Papers or long abstracts should be submitted by 15 August 2018 to renmin-glo@ruc.edu.cn. CONFERENCE FLYER

FOR FURTHER DEATAIL SEE ALSO THE GLO WEBSITE.

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GLO Discussion Paper of the Month: Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy in India

Posted on August 1, 2018 by admin

Just announced by GLO. The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of July 2018 with a free download can be accessed here:

Goel, Deepti & Deshpande, Ashwini, 2018. “Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy,” GLO Discussion Paper No. 232, Global Labor Organization (GLO). FREE Download PDF

Abstract: Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income adequacy, which is one of the factors that shapes subjective well-being, is small. Our paper fills this lacuna in the literature. We utilize nationally representative data on perceptions of amounts considered as remunerative earnings from self-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change such as the introduction of an employment guarantee scheme alters these perceptions. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well as actual earnings: lower-ranked groups perceive lower amounts as being remunerative, and also earn lower amounts. Further, the employment guarantee scheme alters self-perceptions differentially for different caste groups, but in more nuanced ways than our ex-ante beliefs.

The full list of GLO Discussion Papers of July 2018 (also free access):

235 Selling hope? A review of current youth unemployment initiatives in Cairo – Download PDF
by Pettit, Harry

234 Defining and Measuring Workforce Development in the United States in a Post-Bipartisan Era – Download PDF
by Holland, Brian

233 Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data – Download PDF
by Campaner, Annika & Heywood, John S. & Jirjahn, Uwe

232 Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy – Download PDF
by Goel, Deepti & Deshpande, Ashwini

231 Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi – Download PDF
by Goel, Deepti & Barooah, Bidisha

230 Reflections on wage-setting – Download PDF
by Zimmermann, Klaus F.

229 Will you marry me? It depends (on the business cycle) – Download PDF
by Bellido, Héctor & Marcén, Miriam

228 Immigration and the Health of Older Natives in Western Europe – Download PDF
by Escarce, José J. & Rocco, Lorenzo

227 The Effects of Political Reservations on Credit Access and Borrowing Composition: New Evidence from India – Download PDF
by Ao, Chon-Kit & Chatterjee, Somdeep

226 Self-Employment Can Be Good for Your Health – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena

225 What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households – Download PDF
by Foster, Gigi & Stratton, Leslie S.

224 My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh – Download PDF
by Blunch, Niels-Hugo

223 The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Hoang, Trung X. & Nguyen, Ha

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.

M.M. (Magdalena) Ulceluse, PhD

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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NEW Seminar Series: GLO – UM Joint Seminar at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Posted on July 28, 2018 by admin

21 August 2018 at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Malaya (UM) start an new joint seminar series:

The GLO-UM Joint Labor Economics Seminar

It is headed by GLO Fellow Professor Niaz Asadullah in his function as the GLO Lead for South-East Asia. He is also the GLO Country Lead Malaysia.

The first speaker will be Dr Chandravadan Shah, who is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES), Victoria University and Affiliate of Monash University in Australia. He will speak about “Forecasting Labor Demand: International Best Practices”.  For further details see below.

PDF of this agenda: GLO-UM Program

PDF of this flyer: GLO-UM Joint Seminar

GLO Fellow Professor Niaz Asadullah in his function as the GLO Lead for South-East Asia heading the new GLO-UM Joint Labor Economics Seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Joint FOM-GLO-KAS Conference on “Climate Change and Human Responses” on 31 October – 2 November 2018 in Hongkong

Posted on July 24, 2018 by admin

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st Century. It does not only have impact on eco-systems, but also direct and indirect impact on societies and economies. The consequences for global production chains, value adding and labor markets will be massive. But scientific and public discussion, not to talk about adaptation in business operations is rather weak.

Rising sea levels, floods and droughts, changing agricultural patterns – tremendous economic losses and migration of labor force will lead to unforeseeable consequences on human well-being, public health, labor performance and productivity.

Yet, mitigation and adaptation measures might have positive impacts on local and regional economies and labor markets – but with huge sector differences. Shifting from carbon-based economies to renewable ones create new source of value and increase demand of skilled labor in many countries in the world.

Against this background, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and FOM University of Applied Sciences organize an international conference in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) | Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific to discuss these issues. The event will take place on October 31 – November 2 in Hongkong.

Organizers are Peter Hefele (KAS RECAP, Hongkong), Andreas Oberheitmann (FOM, RWI and GLO) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and GLO)

Participants are renowned researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs from Hongkong, Asia, Europe and the US. Speakers include:

  • Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and GLO: Climate Change: The Global Labor Challenge
  • Manfred Fischedick, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and Environment, Climate Change and (Basic) Industry: Options and related Chances and Challenges for a Green Transformation
  • Andreas Oberheitmann, FOM, RWI and GLO, Challenges of Climate Change for Coastal Regions and Cities: the Case of China
  • Almas Heshmati, Jönköping International Business School, Sogang University and GLO, What Can We Learn from Environmental Disasters for the Climate Change Challenges
  • Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, Climate Variability, Agricultural Productivity and Migration
  • Xi Chen, Yale University and GLO, Climate and Environmental Challenges to Health Capital
  • Christopher Parsons, The University of Western Australia and GLO, Climate Change and Migration, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: A Solution to the Immobility Paradox

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GLO Researchers at the UNU-MERIT Internal Conference 2018

Posted on July 24, 2018 by admin

Klaus F. Zimmermann, Co-Directors of POP at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), participated on June 26 – 28, 2018 at the UNU-MERIT Internal Conference 2018 and discussed with colleagues recent research activities.

In this large event, GLO – Fellow Wim Naudé, Maastricht University, and GLO Cluster Lead “Occupations and Development” presented his paper “Start-Up Accelerators as Tool to Facilitate Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Critical Assessment”.


Wim Naudé speaking.

Zimmermann presented two papers:

  • Migration Policy as Development and Innovation Policy (with Alessio J. G. Brown and Marco Vivarelli)
  • Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh (with Shyamal Chowdhury and Matthias Sutter)

and acted as a discussant of

  • Racky Balde (UNU-MERIT): The Eff ects of a Tougher Regulation of the Informal Sector: Evidence from South Africa

Zimmermann presenting paper on economic preference formation.
(Picture courtesy of GLO Fellow Franziska Gassmann, UNU-MERIT.)

Naudé and Zimmermann after a discussion of research & GLO issues in front of UNU-MERIT.

Klaus F. Zimmermann also met and spoke with GLO Fellow Alessio J. G. Brown, Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.

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GLO & EBES intensify academic collaborations

Posted on July 23, 2018 by admin

Representatives of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) about establishing a long-term collaboration on educational and research activities between both organizations. Among other issues, the cooperation includes the exchange of academic documents, the organization of events, joint publications and other means to foster research. For instance, GLO intends to organize sessions at the May 29-31, 2019 EBES conference in Coventry, UK following the very successful experiences of a first joint event organized in May 2018 in Berlin. The MOU has been signed in July 2018 by EBES Vice President Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann.

 

 

Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin (right) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (left) with FOM Head Berlin Manuela Zipperling at the May 2018 joint EBES-FOM-GLO conference in Berlin.

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Zimmermann speaks at AASLE 2018 in Seoul/South Korea.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by admin

The paper “Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education” has been accepted for presentation at the

Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) 2018 Conference.

Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO and UNU-MERIT), President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), is visiting South Korea in December and will present the paper. The research is joint work with Olga Nottmeyer, Simone Schüller and Tanika Chakraborty.  The conference takes place in Seoul, South Korea, from 13-15 December, 2018.

Zimmermann was already contributing to the AASLE 2017 inaugural conference in Canberra from 7-9 December, where he presented two papers, one in a GLO session, supporting the event. More information.

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How housework relates to life satisfaction among couples (and what women want their men to do)

Posted on July 17, 2018 by admin

A recommended research output to study: New research paper by Gigi Foster (University of New South Wales) and Leslie S. Stratton (Virginia Commonwealth University) on housework and happiness among couples. It is freely available as a Global Labor Organization (GLO) Discussion Paper. A core finding is that “when he exceeds housework norms, she is happier with housework allocations, but less happy in broader dimensions.” A puzzle that needs explanations, which are provided in the paper. Enjoy the reading!

Foster, Gigi & Stratton, Leslie S. (2018) : What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households, GLO Discussion Paper, No. 225. PDF Free Download.

Abstract: The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much housework men and women should contribute are likely to influence couples’ housework allocation decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, the authors employ a two-stage estimation procedure to examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples’ satisfaction. They find that satisfaction is negatively affected by predicted housework time, and that women’s satisfaction, but not men’s, is robustly affected by their partners’ residual housework time. When he exceeds housework norms, she is happier with housework allocations, but less happy in broader dimensions. The authors discuss several reasons for their results, including that housework is more salient in women’s lives than in men’s, that housework in general is not a preferred activity, and that some degree of gender-norm conformity in regard to housework can positively affect women’s life satisfaction.

GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann in December 2017 in Australia.

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