by S. Chowdhury, A. Krause & K. Zimmermann       . This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis and associated illness. Based on rich and newly collected hous

by Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao                       . We present the first systematic study on child labour in China. Child labour is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average,

by E. Meschi, E. Taymaz & M. Vivarelli                           This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalisation and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longit

Issue 1/2017, published on 29 October 2016, marks an important landmark for the journal, as it enters its 30th year of successful academic service. We celebrate three decades of dedication in publishing outstanding theoretical and insightful applied research in all areas of population

Brexit symbolizes the new worries about internal European mobility. At the same time, the additional fears generated by the refugee crisis crowds out the necessary debate about new labor migration to Europe. Against this background, POP-Researchers Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmerma

The Migration and integration challenge is far from being mastered and a recurrent topic in academic, policy, business and social partner events. Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann gave a keynote on Refugee and Migrant Labor Market Integration: Europe in Need of a New Policy Agenda at the

Chunbei Wang and Le Wang of the University of Oklahoma received the 2018 Kuznets Prize for their article “Knot yet: Minimum marriage age law, marriage delay, and earnings,” which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2017), 30(3), pp. 771-804. The annual prize ho

Volume 31 (2) of the Journal of Population Economics features Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish’s article “The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples”. Enjoy it for free for six weeks!

This issue features the freely-accessible lead article “The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples” by Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish, which explores the hypothesis that differently-aged couples are less resilient to negative shocks than couples comprised of similarly-ag