Showing 1 - 10 of 514
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730579
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034070
The global economy is full of progress paradoxes. Improvements in technology, reducing poverty, and increasing life expectancy coexist with persistent poverty in the poorest countries and increasing inequality and unhappiness in many wealthy ones. A key driver of the latter is the decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111959
generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748359
by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418005
respect. The 2008 financial crisis had small effects on the Swedish labor market. Employment in industry declined sharply and … then remained stagnant, but employment in the service sectors has continued to grow steadily. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870633
, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777188
The majority of individuals released from prison face limited employment opportunities and do not successfully … randomized evaluations of employment-focused programs find increases in employment but little impact on recidivism. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751096
employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737293