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GLO Discussion Paper of the Month September on ‘The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution’.
The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of September investigates how air quality changed during COVID-19 lockdown policies in Vietnam. 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 … Continue reading
The inter-generational fertility effect of an abortion ban
A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics finds that individuals whose mothers were affected by an abortion ban Romania employed in the mid-1960s had a significantly lower demand for children than those who were not. The … Continue reading
Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments. New article by GLO Fellows Niaz Asadullah and Zahra Siddique & colleagues.
A new paper published online in the Journal of Population Economics studies adolescent girls’ attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using data from rural Bangladesh. It further investigates how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms … Continue reading
Brookings-Jinan China Microeconomic Policy Forum 2020 ended today with a session on “Internal migration and rural-urban inequality in China”
The Brookings-Jinan China Microeconomic Policy Forum 2020 took place on October 16-17, 2020. The second day (see program below) dealt with “Internal migration and rural-urban inequality in China”. GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann discussed a paper by Zhangfeng Jin on … Continue reading
The Effects of the 2008 Labour-Migration Reform in Sweden: An Analysis of Income
A new GLO Discussion Paper investigates the 2008 policy change in Sweden’s immigration policy. The new non-selective labor-migration policy lowered labor migrants’ mean income by opening the door to unskilled labor. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan … Continue reading
Third Webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20: Report and Video.
Third webinar in the GLO Virtual Young Scholar (GLO-VirtYS) Program, Cohort 2019-20 All the presentation in this series are based on the projects that GLO-VirtYS program scholars completed as part of their program participation. Videos of the event are available … Continue reading
How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? A longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market
A new GLO Discussion Paper investigates how many discrimination tests per single agent are needed to convincingly proof discrimination. For the Belgium real estate market, it appears that 10 or more tests are needed per realtor to detect discrimination with … Continue reading
Still the lands of equality? On the heterogeneity of individual factor income shares in the Nordics.
A new GLO Discussion Paper finds rising inequality in the Nordic countries in the composition of individual incomes which is due mostly to a shift in capital incomes towards the top of the distribution. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is … Continue reading
The role of foreign direct investment in growth: Spain, 1964-2013
A new GLO Discussion Paper finds a significant contribution of foreign capital on the accumulated growth of GDP over the period of analysis in Spain. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as … Continue reading
Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
A new GLO Discussion Paper studies the demand for academic support services at a large U.S. public university. Approximately one-third of students are never attentive to student services, and the characteristics of advertising messages matter. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) … Continue reading