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Fiscal sustainability and demographic change : a micro approach for 27 EU countries
Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2015
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449292
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Reversals in the patterns of women's labor supply in the U.S., 1976 - 2009
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation - especially among married women with children - in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the twenty-first century has seen declines across the board. These have been especially marked among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905662
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Older men : pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929123
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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879326
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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor) - 2008
-employment. -- Self-employment ; state dependence ; labor market dynamics ; unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793470
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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932145
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The German labor market after the Great Recession : successful reforms and future challenges
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - 2012
economic growth in the future. -- unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor supply ; benefit systems ; public policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613697