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GLO South-East Asia Cluster Webinar Series on “Promoting Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Hosted by the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, the GLO East Asia Cluster organizes an Online Webinar Seminar Series on Promoting Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic starting with a first Seminar on 9 April 2021. Ends;

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Differentiating Retirement Age to Compensate for Career Arduousness.

A new GLO Discussion Paper estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation needed to compensate individuals for their career-related health handicap/advantage and get closer to “real” actuarial fairness. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization … Continue reading

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What Determines Firm Performance in the MENA Region?

A new GLO Discussion Paper provides directions for strategies targeting at improving the performance of firms in MENA countries. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform … Continue reading

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How Performance Pay Affects Alcohol Use

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for Germany that the likelihood of consuming each of four types of alcohol (beer, wine, spirits, and mixed drinks) is higher for those receiving performance pay, and their total number of types of alcohol … Continue reading

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The Effect of Households’ Indebtedness on Their Consumption

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds for Belgium a negative effect of households’ indebtedness on their consumption. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization that functions as an international network and virtual platform to stimulate … Continue reading

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Stop worrying and love the robot!

A new GLO Discussion Paper studies for Italy the impact of robotization on the shares of workers employed as robot operators and in occupations deemed exposed to robots to reveal for the first time reinstatement effects among robot operators and … Continue reading

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Lifetime Wellbeing & Family Unhappiness. Two articles in the April issue of the Journal of Population Economics.

Key findings of the two articles are: Blanchflower provides global evidence that the U-shaped happiness-age curve is everywhere. Blanchflower and Clark find that children may cause unhappiness because of challenging family finances. Watch the GLO Virtual Seminar presentation of Danny … Continue reading

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Daylight saving time: Health and crime impacts studied in new research papers.

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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Hyperbolic discounting in an intergenerational model with altruistic parents.

Hyperbolic utility discounting has emerged as a leading alternative to exponential discounting because it can explain time-inconsistent behaviors. A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics uses hyperbolic discounting in an intergenerational model with altruistic parents to find … Continue reading

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Birth outcomes in hard times among minority ethnic groups

A new paper published in the Journal of Population Economics investigates the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrants’ newborns in Italy. It finds that the negative effects are driven by the main economic activity of the … Continue reading

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