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We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut back on their work hours or otherwise change the type of...
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This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population … aging has had a large effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …
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This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2016. Population … aging has had a notable effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …
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This paper compares employment and hours adjustment in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing. In contrast to some previous … Japan; adjustment of employment is significantly greater in the United States, while that of average hours is about the same … in the two countries. Although workers in Japan enjoy greater employment stability than do U.S. workers, we find …
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regulation raises the costs of employment adjustment and hence impedes employers' ability to respond to fluctuations in demand … adjustment of employment, hours and inventories to demand shocks in the German and U.S. manufacturing sectors. We find that, in … the short run, whereas U.S. employers rely principally on the adjustment of employment levels to respond to demand shocks …
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This paper compares employment and hours adjustment in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing. In contrast to some previous … Japan; adjustment of employment is significantly greater in the United States, while that of average hours is about the same … in the two countries. Although workers in Japan enjoy greater employment stability than do U.S. workers, we find …
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's employment arrangement and identify all low-hours work is critical for accurately measuring independent contractor work. …
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’s employment arrangement and identify all low-hours work is critical for accurately measuring independent contractor work …
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