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.S. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. We conclude that although there is evidence …
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This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular an important compression of earnings...
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employment were compulsorily directed into jobs and industries that were vital to the war effort. There were also many woman … than the age cohorts that followed them. -- WWII female employment ; essential war industries ; long-term real wages …
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We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a 'synthetic cohort' dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …
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Employment Strategy, which repeatedly stressed the importance of human capital and technological knowledge as main drivers for …
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correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born into smaller cohorts are less likely to work, but school … attendance remains unchanged. In middle-income countries, young adults in smaller cohorts are less likely to be unemployed and …
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This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...
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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
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of employment volatility. We, therefore, condition the job creation analysis on job stability. Young firms and large …
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Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
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