Category Archives: Research

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among … Continue reading →

The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) are jointly organizing the Fourth IESR-GLO Virtual Conference. The conference this year will be held from June 24 (Thursday) to June 26 (Saturday), … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews migration out of the UK after Brexit and Covid-19, and discusses possible future flows and impacts. GLO Discussion Paper No. 854, 2021 Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit – Download PDFby Portes, Jonathan … Continue reading →

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Japan that during Covid-19 school closures increased the inequality of mental health between genders and parents with different educational backgrounds. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading →

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Portugal’s wage gap between vocational and general secondary education no support for either the human capital prediction of crossing wage profiles or the hypothesis that general graduates increasingly outperform vocational … Continue reading →

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Germany that among the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are about one-third more likely to experience income losses than … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper indicates that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behavior lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect. GLO Discussion Paper No. 856, 2021 Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews employers’ violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas to the US; higher labor market power is associated with fewer violations, higher unemployment rates and subcontractor firms are associated with … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that there is no significant difference between valuations of a private good and various versions of a public good as long as the good itself is the same. GLO Discussion Paper No. 853, 2021 … Continue reading →

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity, but its impact differs widely across workforce and firm dimensions. GLO Discussion Paper No. 852, 2021 Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? … Continue reading →