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women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …
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inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less...
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policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …
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Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
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This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the relative risk of labor force non-participation increases...
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: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment …
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