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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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Retaining through training; even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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Human Resources & the Labour Force: Issues for Contemporary & Comparative Research
Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …
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New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective
Booth, Alison L; Jenkins, Stephen P; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...
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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance
Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the … effects of frictions on steady state employment relative to the simplest matching model, and two common extensions. We also … find that the presence of empirically plausible frictions has virtually no impact on the response of aggregate employment …
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...
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Cohort Size and Female Labor Supply
Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and decreasing female labor supply. This paper reviews the literature on the substitutability of female for male labor, on relative income changes as a result of changes in cohort size and...
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Two Views of Inequality Over the Life-Cycle
Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Data on the life-cycle profiles of inequality in wages, earnings, hours worked and consumption contains precious information for answering questions about the ability of households to insure labor market risk and about the sources of this risk. This Paper demonstrates that the choice of whether...
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Labour Supply in the Informal Economy in Russia during Transition
Kolev, Alexandre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper investigates the informal labour market in Russia in late 1995 and estimates a labour supply function in the informal sector using nationally representative micro-data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, Round VI. The findings show that the informal economy constitutes a...
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Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martin; Niepelt, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We analyze the effect of changes in fertility and longevity on taxes, the composition of government spending, and productivity. To that purpose, we introduce politics in an OLG economy with endogenous growth due to human and physical capital accumulation. Population ageing shifts political power...
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