Gender

The GLO Cluster Gender, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Outcomes focuses on the state of being man or woman (gender), which is typically used with reference to masculinity vs femininity rather than sex, the internal and personal conception of oneself as man or woman (gender identity), and sexual preferences (sexual orientation) and their effects on wages, employment levels, occupational sorting, and workplace evaluations. What is seen as gender-appropriate can change over time, and gender assumptions are interpolated by cultural, historical and regional location. The combined effects of sex equality, feminism and the gay movement have challenged the conception of gender related issues. This GLO Cluster includes studies on gender characteristics, stereotypes and deviations, trans identities, sexual orientation minorities and labor market outcomes. This GLO Cluster aims to provide evaluations of labor and organizational initiatives, practices and policies aiming at a higher degree of knowledge and inclusion for gender, gender identity and sexual orientation expressions.

Cluster Lead: Nick Drydakis

GLO Cluster Lead Nick Drydakis is Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU, UK), directs the Centre for Pluralist Economics at Anglia Ruskin University, leads courses in micro and macro, and consults at the University of Cambridge. His research areas are labor and population economics.

Selection of activities

Conference
May 2018; 23-25: FOM University, Berlin/Germany. 25th Conference of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). Further information can be found here: Conference call; EBES Fellow Award; GLO Activities; Highlights EBES. Workshop presentation of the cluster activities.

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics ed. by Klaus F. Zimmermann. General info.
Section “Gender” (20 chapters) is edited by Section Editor Nick Drydakis. Most chapters are published, see LINK.

Special journal issue

Special issue of the International Journal of Manpower on: “Sexual Orientation and the Labor Market“. For details of original call. The issue is edited by Nick Drydakis (Anglia Ruskin University, University of Cambridge, IZA, and GLO) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, CEPR and GLO). Published with 10 articles as Volume 41 Issue 6, 2020.

Lead article: Nick Drydakis and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2020), “Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Labour Market Outcomes: New Patterns and Insights”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 40, No. 6, 621-628. GLO Discussion Paper No. 627. Prepublication Version IJM. Journal Website.

Journal of Population Economics