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Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates...
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In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
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participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job …
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COVID-19 has exacerbated concerns about the rise of the robots and other automation technologies. This paper analyzes empirically the impact of past major pandemics on robot adoption and inequality. First, we find that pandemic events accelerate robot adoption, especially when the health impact...
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We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …
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Gains in labor force participation rates in Chile have slowed in recent years. We examine their determinants using a cohort-model analysis. Allowing for both age- and cohort-specific effects in the context of a seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) approach, we find that age factors...
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. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated among non-affiliated firms. The lack of …
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towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
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This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection forregular workers and how it … of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …
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We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …
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