longer working lives. In this paper, we discuss recent developments in employment and activity of workers aged 55 and above … in Spain and the UK-two countries that differ widely on historical and recent employment rate patterns as well as … incentives to return to employment for the long-term unemployed, and greater flexibility in hours and working arrangments for …

? -- IV. Women to the Rescue: Policies to Raise FLP in Japan -- A. Hurdle 1: Employment and Promotion Policies -- B. Hurdle 2 …Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to … participating in the workforce in Japan. First, few working women start out in career-track positions, and second, many women drop …

increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …

gender gaps in employment and job loss related to the COVID-19 crisis. Using a sample of Latin American countries, our … findings suggest that higher levels of digitalization are associated with increased female employment and reduced job loss for …

Three years after the COVID-19 crisis, employment and total hours worked in Europe fully recovered, but average hours …