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Platform Work and Economic Insecurity: Evidence from Italian Survey Data

A new GLO Discussion Paper investigates whether the socio-economic disadvantages that platform workers are likely to face are primarily channeled through lower incomes or more precarious working conditions. They are primarily students and face greater economic insecurity relative to all … Continue reading

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How the Earnings Growth of U.S. Immigrants Was Underestimated

A new GLO Discussion Paper demonstrates how immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act in the United States have low initial earnings and high earnings growth after all. A re-visit of an influential debate in migration economics. The … Continue reading

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The Unintended Consequences of Relaxing Birth Quotas: Family Policy in China

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that the recent adoption of a two-child policy in China has substantially increased the number of second-child births. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an … Continue reading

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Working from home and income inequality in the time of COVID-19

GLO Policy Note No. 4 Theme 2: Inequalities and labor marketsTheme 3: Future of Work Working from home and income inequality in the time of COVID-19 A case study of Italy by Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, Sergio Scicchitano Luca Bonacini … Continue reading

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The Dynamics of Working Hours and Wages Under Implicit Contracts.

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies a model economy where a firm and its workforce are linked by an implicit contract and examine the dynamic behavioral properties. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that … Continue reading

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Consequences of war: Japan’s demographic transition and the marriage market

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST with free READ ACCESS show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male-to-female sex ratio) induces an increase in the number and a decrease in the quality of children in a reasonable model framework … Continue reading

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Decent Work and the Quality of Work and Employment

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews and evaluates the concept of the quality of work and employment including both ‘decent work’ and the narrower concept of ‘job quality’. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading

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Short-run and long-run effects of peers from disrupted families.

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST with free READ ACCESS reveals that girls are mostly unaffected by peers from disrupted families, while boys exhibit more school problems in adolescence and higher arrest probabilities, less stable jobs, and higher probabilities of … Continue reading

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The Labour Market Impact of Covid-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe.

A new GLO Discussion Paper assesses firm data from World Bank enterprise surveys to obtain lessons from the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an … Continue reading

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Health and crime impacts of daylight saving.

Europe decided to abolish daylight saving time in 2021, since the save energy impact is debatable; but so far concrete actions remained elusive. Some evidence should not be overlooked. Based on natural experiments: Stratified demographic analyses for Indiana/USA indicate that … Continue reading

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