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Work Environment and "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths
Herr, Jane Leber - 2009
Using data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and a sample of Harvard alumnae, we study the relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor force participation rates across high-education fields....
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Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation : Evidence in Germany and Across Europe
Borsch-Supan, Axel - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472033
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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997
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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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement
Gustman, Alan L. - 2004
of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement …, while reducing full time work and full retirement, resulting in only a small net increase in full-time equivalent employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467813
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Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of job offers that vary in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456502
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544803
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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
Cassoni, Adriana - 2000
This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471275
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The Economic Value of Breaking Bad : Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2019
Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad for labor market outcomes. In contrast, we argue that some childhood misbehavior represents underlying socio-emotional skills that are valuable in the labor market. We follow work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479555
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Is Retirement Depressing? : Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2002
This paper assesses how retirement - defined as permanent labor force non-participation in a man's mature years - affects psychological welfare. The raw correlation between retirement and well-being is negative. But this does not imply causation. In particular, people with idiosyncratically low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469680