Advertisements for jobs that include subtle ageist stereotypes related to physical ability, communications skills or technological aptitude are putting off older workers from applying. That is the central finding of new research by Ian Burn, Daniel Firoozi, Daniel Ladd and David Neumark, which uses new machine learning language processing tools and an experiment on Amazon’s […]
In parts of Italy that have seen large inflows of immigrants in recent years, immigrant children of primary school age are given lower grades by their teachers in non-blind tests compared with natives of similar ability, as measured by their performance in blindly-graded tests. Teachers in schools in areas characterised by small inflows of immigrants […]
Laws that ban unemployed people from moving to certain parts of a city are ineffective, according to new research by Hans Koster and Jos van Ommeren. First, they do not materially change the demographic composition of targeted neighbourhoods by attracting households with higher income levels. What’s more, the laws have significant adverse side effects, because […]
Voters in French local elections seem to discriminate against women running for public office – but only when a male/female pair of candidates is representing a right-wing political party. That is the central finding of new research by Jean Benoit Eymeoud and Paul Vertier, which explores the electoral effect of having the woman candidate of […]
When women are informed about their relative wages with respect to colleagues, they react more strongly to differences relative to other women than to differences with men. That is one of the findings of new research by Marianna Baggio and Ginevra Marandola, which uses an online experiment to assess the impact of pay transparency measures […]
Three economic policy packages introduced in Italy between 2011 and 2017 have boosted the country’s GDP by between 2.5% and 6%, according to new research by Emanuela Ciapanna, Sauro Mocetti and Alessandro Notarpietro. What’s more, further increases are expected to materialise over the coming decade, bringing the overall long-run impact of the reforms on GDP […]
As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world in the spring of 2020, schools were shut down and millions of children faced major learning losses while their parents struggled to combine work, childcare and home education. A new research report by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln explores the likely long-term impact of those closures on children’s future livelihoods […]
As fighting climate change becomes the world’s top post-pandemic priority, financial intermediaries, their regulators and central banks have all been called to contribute. A major new research report exploring the scope and limits of green finance and the possibility of ‘greening’ monetary policies will be launched at an online panel discussion hosted by Europe’s leading […]
Parts of France under more stringent lockdown restrictions in the spring of 2020 had patterns of voting behaviour and electoral outcomes that were significantly different from those in places with softer measures. According to new research by Tommaso Giommoni and Gabriel Loumeau, a larger proportion of voters turned out in hard lockdown municipalities, and they […]
New research examines how technological change and access to early retirement pathways reinforce each other in pushing older workers out of employment. The study by Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang and Juha Tuomala analyses data from Finland to show that the probability of leaving employment is higher for individuals who are in occupations with higher […]
