News
November 2014

In this edition:

• Spotlight on: Equal pay
• Top stories
• Latest articles
• Events
• In the news
• What we're reading this month

IZA World of Labor held a panel discussion on 30 October in partnership with the London School of Economics, asking: Does Aid Work?
Read more about the issues around this debate

A rise in maternal employment has coincided with a rise in childhood obesity, but research shows no causal link.
What else could be behind this?

Men and women in Tanzania are set to have equal rights to own and use land, under the country's proposed new constitution.
Read how this will benefit women

Studies suggest that gender stereotypes and discrimination are being perpetuated by the film industry.
Can films really have this effect?

• Products and policies to promote saving in developing countries by Jessica Goldberg

• Flat-rate tax systems and their effect on labor markets by Andreas Peichl

• Entrepreneurship and the business cycle by Roy Thurik

• The effect of overtime regulations on employment by Ronald L. Oaxaca

• Is the return to education the same for everybody? by Douglas Webber

• Tax evasion, labor market effects, and income distribution by James Alm

• Impact of privatization on employment and earnings by John S. Earle

• Unemployment and happiness by Rainer Winkelmann

• Happiness and the emigration decision by Artjoms Ivlevs

• 13 November: LSE/CEMFI/IZA World of Labor panel discussion: Tackling Youth Unemployment Madrid, Spain

• 13-14 November: WASET XII International Conference on Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Kyoto, Japan

• 15 November: Becker Friedman Institute Conference on Empirical Labor Economics in Honor of Finis Welch Chicago, USA

• 17 November: OECD/IZA World of Labor seminar: Minimum Wages - Impacts and Institutional Processes Paris, France