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Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and … female net wages therefore stimulate female labor supply. The example of Sweden shows that pronatalist policies can be …

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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...

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Patterns of Unemployment: An Insider-Outsider Analysis

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper presents a stochastic insider-outsider model that accounts for the following stylized facts: (1) unemployment rates display a high degree of serial correlation, or `persistence'; (2) the average rate of unemployment has been higher in the United States than in Europe over the 1950s and...

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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

This paper emphasises some of the outstanding issues on the agenda for research on the labour force in Britain. It surveys topics but not results and does not attempt to review the literature or current research. Human resources are defined as the potential for creating economic welfare through...

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Gross Labour Market Flows in Europe: Some Stylized Facts

Burda, Michael C; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The purpose of this paper is to establish some stylized facts on gross labor market flows - using mostly new data from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - which any theory of unemployment ought to explain. The regularities on gross labor market flows that we isolate are...

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The Labour Force Participation of Older Men in Britain, 1951-81

Johnson, Paul A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment experience of older male workers in Britain in the 30 years since 1951. It is based on a cross sectional analysis of data on age of workforce in 34 industrial sectors drawn from the...

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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