How do age-differences between married couples associate with marital satisfaction?

Posted on February 4, 2018 by admin

Both women and men likewise are more satisfied with younger marital partners and less satisfied with older ones. Marital satisfaction for a younger partner which is initially higher than for similar aged couples declines relatively with marital duration and converges within six to ten years of marriage. This is explained by the hypothesis that differently aged couples are less resilient to negative shocks compared to similarly aged couples.

Important and open for debate!

  • The finding that, in the cross-section, both men and women are the most satisfied with younger partners and least satisfied with older partners contradicts much of the existing theoretical and empirical literature on marital sorting and marital age gaps.
  • The results also call into question the preference estimates generated using data from online data and speed-dating events. The fact that both men and women tend to seek dates with similarly aged partners had previously been interpreted as evidence that both men and women prefer similarly aged partner.  Both may actually prefer to seek dates with younger partners but avoid doing so because they know that they would only be successful with low-quality younger partners.

These findings are derived in the just available and freely accessible lead article in the Journal of Population Economics:

Authors: Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish

Deakin University, Australia & University of Colorado, USA

The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples

Journal of Population Economics (2018), Vol. 31:2, pp 337-362

PDF downloadable for free

The Journal of Population Economics is the leading academic journal in economic demography. Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), one of the organizations supporting the Journal, is the Editor-in-Chief. He says: “We thank the brilliant authors for an excellent analysis of a very timely question with thought-provoking insights and the article Editor, GLO Fellow Alessandro Cigno, University of Florence, with his anonymous academic referees, for their important work.” Both authors are also GLO Fellows.

The study uses the famous Australian Hilda data set administered at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne, which Zimmermann had visited in November and December 2017.

Zimmermann nearby the Melbourne Museum.

Access the complete new journal issue:

For the complete new issue of the Journal of Population Economics see the outline and the link to the single articles below:

Journal of Population Economics. Volume 31 Number 2 is now available! Access the articles through the link.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is pleased to present the table of contents alert for a new issue of the Journal of Population Economics. Volume 31 Number 2 is now available online.

Wang-Sheng Lee & Terra McKinnish: The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples

Anne Ardila Brenøe & Ramona Molitor: Birth order and health of newborns

Neeraj Kaushal & Felix M. Muchomba: Missing time with parents: Disease risk and fertility: evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Yoo-Mi Chin & Nicholas Wilson: Disease risk and fertility: evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio Rosati & Renos Vakis: Women’s economic capacity and children’s human capital accumulation

Gigi Foster & Leslie S. Stratton: Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households

Ildefonso Mendez & Gema Zamarro: The intergenerational transmission of noncognitive skills and their effect on education and employment outcomes

Nora Gordon & Sarah Reber: The effects of school desegregation on mixed-race births

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Thitima Puttitanun: Undocumented youth in limbo: the impact of America’s immigration enforcement policy on juvenile deportations

Louis-Philippe Beland & Bulent Unel: The impact of party affiliation of US governors on immigrants’ labor market outcomes

Journal of Population Economics. Volume 31 Number 2 is now available! Access the articles through the link.

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Research Journal “Comparative Economic Studies” appoints new editors as of January 2018

Posted on February 2, 2018 by admin

The research journal Comparative Economic Studies has recently announced the appointment of Professor Nauro Campos (Brunel University London and GLO) as the incoming Editor. Prof. Campos has taken over editorship of the journal from Profs. Paul Wachtel and Josef Brada. 

Nauro Campos is Professor of Economics at Brunel University London and Research Professor at ETH-Zürich. He is also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). His main research interests include political economy and European integration.

Prof. Campos has appointed a new Editorial Board for the journal including GLO Fellow François Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics, France, and GLO – President Klaus F. Zimmermann (picture below at the Australian beach during a recent research visit), UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University.

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“Sexual Orientation and the Labor Market”: Submission Deadline for Research Journal is August 31, 2018

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

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

Submissions will be accepted until August 31, 2018.

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.

Despite the enactment, in English speaking countries and the EU, of labor legislation against discrimination in the labor market based on sexual orientation, LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) people continue to experience occupational access constraints, lower job satisfaction, wage discrimination (especially gay men), and more bullying and harassment than their heterosexual counterparts (Drydakis, 2014; Valfort, 2017).

Studies for the period 1989–2014 suggest that gay men receive lower wages than heterosexual men of comparable education, skills, and experience. For instance, studies find that gay men earn from 4–5% less than heterosexual men in the Netherlands, France, Greece, and the UK and up to 12–16% less in Canada, Sweden, and the US (Drydakis, 2014). Whether wage discrimination against gay men exists in other regions is of great interest and ascertaining this is of importance for policy interventions. In addition, whether wage discrimination lessens over time in response to policy interventions and legislation is hard to determine in the absence of relevant studies. It is not yet clear whether prejudice-based and/or statistical discrimination is the more appropriate framework for the study of labor discrimination against LGBTI people.

The available studies on sexual orientation and job satisfaction highlight that in Australia, Canada, and Greece, both gay men and lesbians experience lower job satisfaction than do their otherwise similar heterosexual counterparts (Drydakis, 2014). Because gay and lesbian employees face severe workplace harassment and bullying, these conditions may affect their workplace experience evaluations (Drydakis, 2014). Whether factors other than workplace harassment cause gay and lesbian employees’ dissatisfaction requires examination. Also, for instituting appropriate policy actions, it is important to determine whether these job satisfaction differences suffered by sexual orientation minorities exist in other countries.

In general, the dearth of studies makes it difficult to examine how education, occupation, industrial relations, region, core socio-economic characteristics, personality and mental health traits moderate the relationship between sexual orientation and labor market outcomes (Drydakis, 2014). Indeed, although studies suggest that lesbians face prejudice in the labor market, some studies estimate that lesbians earn more than comparable heterosexual women. Lesbians have been found to earn 3% more in the Netherlands, 8% more in the UK, 11% more in Germany, 15% more in Canada, and 20% more in the US. Whether personality characteristics, coping strategies, occupational choices, family structures and/or region positively affect lesbians’ wages is still an open question.

In addition, quantitative research on employment outcomes is scarce for trans people (Drydakis, 2017). A representative study suggests that trans people tend to suffer higher unemployment rates than those reported, in other studies, for the general U.S. population (Leppel, 2016). In addition, the interaction between trans identity, and sexual orientation, and the effects of this on employment outcomes is under-examined (Drydakis, 2017). Whether explicit, legislative employment protection against discrimination on the ground of a trans identity has an effect on employment outcomes has also received little attention (Drydakis, 2017).

Given the aforementioned lack of sufficient literature, the editors welcome empirical papers on labor economics which have a clear and highlighted added value, and solid policy implications, on the following general areas:

  • Testing, in under-examined geographical regions, for wage discrimination based on sexual orientation.
  • Empirically testing and disentangling the forms of employment discrimination (i.e. prejudice-based, and/or statistical discrimination) against LGBTI people.
  • Examining the relationship between sexual orientation, personality characteristics, mental health and employment outcomes.
  • Assessing how moderators (i.e. human capital, educational choices, occupations, family structure, industrial relations etc.) affect the relationship between sexual orientation and labor market outcomes.
  • Testing the relationship between sexual orientation, past/present victimization and labor market outcomes.
  • Quantifying the relationship between sexual orientation and job satisfaction.
  • Evaluating the impact of the legal recognition of same-sex couples on labor market outcomes.
  • Evaluating the impact of employment legislation against sexual orientation and trans identity discrimination on labor market outcomes.
  • Quantifying employment bias against trans people.
  • Examining the interaction between trans identities, sexual orientation and labor market outcomes.

Submissions will be accepted until the 31th of August 2018. They should be made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijm. Before submission, please verify that you have carefully read the Author guidelines of the Journal. While making your submission, please specify the title of the current call for papers. See also the forthcoming call on the journal website.

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

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

References:

Drydakis N. (2014). Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes. IZA World of Labor: 111. DOI: 10.15185/izawol.111

Drydakis N. (2017). Trans people, well-being, and labor market outcomes. IZA World of Labor: 386. DOI: 10.15185/izawol.386

Leppel, K. (2016). The labor force status of transgender men and women. International Journal of Transgenderism,  Vol. 17, No. (3−4), pp. 155−164.

Valfort, M. (2017). LGBTI in OECD countries: A review. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 198, OECD Publishing, Paris. DOI: 10.1787/d5d49711-en

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Zukunft weiter ungesichert: SPD-Sonderparteitag in Bonn macht nur mühsam den Weg frei für Verhandlungen über große Koalition

Posted on January 21, 2018 by admin

Bonn – Deutschland. Sonntag, 21. Januar 2018

(An English comment)

“Die Sozialdemokraten haben auf ihrem außerordentlichen Parteitag in Bonn mit quälender Mehrheit die Aufnahme von Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der Union beschlossen. Es ist zu hoffen, daß der ökonomische und politische Musterknabe Deutschland bald wieder in die Spielhölle der EU- und Welt – Politik zurückkehrt. Das Land mit handlungsfähiger Regierung wird dort als stabilisierender Faktor dringend gebraucht.

Das war knapp und nicht unerwartet problematisch. Denn die SPD hat als Partei (auch schon zu Zeiten der Musterkanzler Schmidt und Schröder, nicht erst in den großen Koalitionen mit Merkel) die strukturell verankerte Neigung, sich Regierungsverantwortung zu verweigern.  Ganz gleich, welche Regierungsleistungen sozialdemokratische Kanzler oder Minister auch zu verantworten hatten. Dies wird durch die Richtungsentscheidung von heute nicht gelöst. Im Gegenteil.

Die Knappheit des Ergebnisses, nur erzielt durch einen massiven Einsatz des breiten links-rechts Establishments der SPD, belegt, wie groß die Herausforderung der Führung der Partei ist. Wahrscheinlich kann diese Aufgabe nur durch eine Person geleistet werden, die nicht gleichzeitig Regierungsmitglied ist.

Die SPD hat heute nochmals eine Bewährungschance erhalten. Sollte sie dennoch am Ende in die Opposition gehen, so werden die darauf wahrscheinlich folgenden Neuwahlen diese Partei weiter zerfallen lassen. Für die Union unter Kanzlerin Merkel könnte das bedeuten, weiter an Stärke zu gewinnen. Nach einem Wahlsieg der CSU in Bayern könnte auch eine bundesweite Koalition mit den Grünen unter ihrer Führung wieder denkbar werden. Es bleibt spannend.”

Klaus F. Zimmermann ist Wirtschaftsprofessor der Universität Bonn (em.) und Präsident der Global Labor Organization (GLO). Er war Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) und Gründungsdirektor des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA).

Zimmermann am Sonntag vor dem Tagungsort des SPD Parteitages im Bonner Konferenzzentrum am Rhein.

 

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Youth Employment: What Drives School to Work Transitions: Reminder of a Call for Papers for a Research Journal

Posted on January 12, 2018 by admin

Reminder of a special Call for Papers on “School to Work Transitions”

The International Journal of Manpower together with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) is preparing a Special Issue on:

“The School to Work Transition: Cross-Country Differences, Evolution and Reforms”.

Submissions are invited until February 15, 2018.

The special issue is edited by Francesco Pastore (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and GLO) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and GLO). This project is related to the GLO Thematic Cluster on “School-to-Work Transitions” headed by Francesco Pastore. Interested GLO network members are invited to contribute to both ventures, but the Special Issue is open to submissions from all authors of qualified articles dealing with relevant aspects of the broadly defined topic.

Please study a very detailed outline of the CALL HERE or on the Journal page.

Pastore (left) and Zimmermann discussing the Special Issue project during a joint GLO mission 2017 in Brasov/Romania.

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Prominent ASSA Panel Discussed the Usefulness of Wellbeing Data for Policymaking

Posted on January 8, 2018 by admin

The American Economic Association (AEA), in conjunction with 58 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA), holds a three-day meeting each January to present papers on general economics topics. The event which is the largest meeting of academic economists in the world typically brings together more than 13,000 individuals from all parts of the world.

ASSA 2018 took place in Philadelphia on January 5 -7.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an international, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that has no institutional position. The GLO functions as global network and virtual platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and the general public interested in scientific research and its policy and societal implications on global labor markets, demographic challenges and human resources.

Many GLO Fellows were at ASSA to present their work and engage in academic exchange and informal meetings. GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht and Bonn University) was also present to discuss and develop GLO issues in many informal meetings and gatherings.

Should Economists Make More Use of Direct Data on Subjective Wellbeing?

On Sunday, January 7, a prominent panel in front of a large audience with Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University), David Laibson (Harvard University), William Nordhaus (Yale University) introduced by Richard Layard (London School of Economics) and chaired by GLO Fellow Alan Krueger (Princeton University) was discussing the issue and the potentials for policymaking. One agreement had been that the potentials of the available data have been so far largely underused.

From the left: Zimmermann, Stiglitz, Laibson, Nordhaus, Krueger and Layard.

In 2017, Zimmermann had delivered a number of keynote lectures on “Migration and Wellbeing”, see reports on events in Kyiv (Ukraine), Brasov (Romania) and Sydney (Australia) developing substantial insights for policymaking.

 

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Berlin Conference in Business and Economics on May 23-25, 2018

Posted on January 8, 2018 by admin

The 25th Conference of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) will take place on May 23-25, 2018 in Berlin/Germany. It is jointly organized with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and hosted by the FOM University in their Berlin study center.  A previous announcement.

Call for Papers

25th EBES Conference – Berlin/Germany

May 23-25, 2018

Jointly organized with the GLO and hosted by the FOM University, Berlin
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018
www.ebesweb.org

Researchers are cordially invited to submit abstracts or papers for consideration for presentation at the 25th EBES Conference. The event will take place on May 23-25, 2018 at the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. It is jointly organized with the GLO (Global Labor Organization) and hosted by the FOM University of Applied Sciences with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities for presenting new research, exchanging information, and discussing current issues. Although a focus is on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly welcome.

GLO President Zimmermann in front of FOM Berlin

Keynote Speakers of the Berlin Conference: 

Marco Vivarelli and Klaus F. Zimmermann

Board

Prof. Jonathan Batten, Monash University, Australia; Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.; Prof. Peter Rangazas, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, U.S.A.; Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.; Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Bonn University, Germany.

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit abstracts or papers no later than February 28, 2018. For submission, please visit this website: http://www.ebesweb.org/Conferences/25th-EBES-Conference-Berlin/Abstract-Submission.aspx No submission fee is required. General inquiries regarding the Call for Papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org.

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers are offered to be published in the EBES journals (no submission or publication fees). EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) are published by Springer and indexed in the Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), EconLit, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest, ABI/INFORM, Business Source,  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Summon by ProQuest, TOC Premier, Cabell’s Directory, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, and Google Scholar.

Also all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although the submission of full papers is not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB. After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission or publication fees).

The conference proceedings will also be sent to Thomson Reuters in order to be reviewed for coverage in its Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th EBES Conference Proceedings were all accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. 16th, 18th and subsequent conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 28, 2018
Reply-by: March 8, 2018
Registration deadline: April 20, 2018
Announcement of the Program: April 30, 2018

Contact
Ugur Can (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir (demir@ebesweb.org)

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Migration and Wellbeing: Video and Photos from the Zimmermann Lecture at Macquarie University now available

Posted on December 27, 2017 by admin

In November 2017, Klaus F. Zimmermann (Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University & President of the Global Labor Organization, GLO) has been a Visiting Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney/Australia. On November 22, he provided a well-received Public Lecture in the Lighthouse Lecture Series of Macquarie University on:

Migration and Well-Being (see also the full report)

To view the full event video and photos from the evening. Visit also the Faculty of Business and Economics webpage.

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Season’s Greetings from Bonn!

Posted on December 20, 2017 by admin

Dear Friends and Contacts:

Back in Bonn from a two months exciting trip through Australia.

Happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year!

Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht; GLO President

Sydney/Australia Near-by the Waterfront; 12 December 2017. Globalists at Work.

Melbourne/Australia; 17 December 2017.

Frankfurt/Main Airport, Germany; 19 December 2017.

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Zimmermann aus Australien in Bonn zurück. Horst Köhler ehrt den GLO – Präsidenten

Posted on December 20, 2017 by admin

Der Bonner Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Klaus F. Zimmermann (Prof. em. der Universität Bonn und Ko-Direktor von POP an UNU-MERIT in Maastricht und Honorarprofessor der Universität Maastricht) ist am 19. Dezember 2017 von einer zweimonatigen Forschungs- und Vortragsreise durch die Universitäten Australiens nach Bonn zurückgekehrt. Dabei arbeitete er mit einem Forschungspreis als Eminent Research Scholar an der Melbourne University und nahm im November auch eine Gastprofessur an der Macquarie University wahr. Dabei hielt er öffentliche Vorlesungen und Forschungsseminare an der University of Western Australia (Perth), der Melbourne University, der University of Wollongong, der Macquarie University (Sydney), der University of New South Wales (Sydney), der University of Adelaide, der University of Queensland (Brisbane) und der Monash University (Melbourne) und hielt Vorträge bei Konferenzen der Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) and the Australian Labour Market Research Group (ALMR) in Canberra.

Zimmermann traf überall auf volle Säle und ein interessiertes Publikum, sowohl unter Wissenschaftlern wie in der Politik. Das Interesse an der von ihm als Präsident geleiteten Global Labor Organization (GLO) in Australien nahm daraufhin sprunghaft zu.

In der Mitte seiner Reise durch Australien feierte er am 2. Dezember 2017 im privaten Kreise seinen 65. Geburtstag, bewußt ohne breites öffentliches Aufsehen. Denn der 65. Geburtstag wird häufig immer noch als Abschluß eines Arbeitslebens angesehen. Genau dieses Signal wollte er aber nicht geben. Vielmehr ist mit seiner langfristigen Präsenz in Forschung und Beratung, gerade in Deutschland, weiter zu rechnen.

Dennoch ereichten ihn viele freundliche, herzliche und anerkennende Geburtstagsgrüße und die besten Wünsche für seine zukünftige Arbeit und die Entwicklung der GLO. Diese hat er dankbar beantwortet. Ein anerkennendes Schreiben des ehemaligen Bundespräsidenten Horst Köhler an den GLO – Präsidenten (s. unten freigegeben) hat ihn besonders gefreut.

Das Schreiben des ehemaligen Bundespräsidenten Horst Köhler, den Zimmermann in seiner Amtszeit mehrfach beraten hatte:

 

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