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Waking up from the American dream: on the experience of young Americans during the housing boom of the 2000s

Laeven, Luc; Popov, Alexander - 2016

the impact of the housing boom on young Americans' choices related to home ownership, household formation, and fertility …

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The importance of being mature: the effect of demographic maturation on global per-capita GDP

Gómez, Rafael; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2006

Given that savings behaviour and worker productivity have strong life-cycle components and given that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure should be linked to differences in levels of economic development. In this paper we measure the economic importance of age...

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The Importance of Being Mature : the Effect of Demographic Maturation on Global Per-Capita Gdp

Gomez, Rafael - 2007

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Part-time work in EU countries: labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2005

This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...

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Credit market competition and the gender gap: Evidence from local labor markets

Popov, Alexander; Zaharia, Sonia - 2017

We exploit the exogenous variation in regional credit market contestability brought on by banking deregulation in the United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We .nd that deregulation reduced the gender gap in labor force participation, as the subsequent...

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Credit Market Competition and the Gender Gap : Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Popov, Alexander A. - 2017

We exploit the exogenous variation in regional credit market contestability brought on by banking deregulation in the United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We find that deregulation reduced the gender gap in labor force participation, as the subsequent...

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Pensions and fertility: back to the roots - The introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …

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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots -- The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert - 2014

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Labor supply after transition: evidence from the Czech Republic

Bičáková, Alena; Slacalek, Jiri; Slavík, Michal - 2008

We extend the scarce evidence on labor supply in post-transition countries by estimating the wage elasticity of labor force participation in the Czech Republic. Using the household income survey data of 2002, we find that a one-percent rise in the gross wage increases the probability of working...

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Asset pricing, habit memory, and the labor market

Jaccard, Ivan - 2010

This article studies the asset pricing and the business cycle implications of habit formation in a production economy with capital adjustment costs and endogenous labor supply. A specification of internal habit in the mix of consumption and leisure which minimizes the wealth effect on labor...

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