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Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey : A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013
Tunali, İnsan - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844827
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Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment Over the Life Cycle : A Cohort Analysis for Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2019
We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894563
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Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes
Newhouse, David Locke - 2014
correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053522
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment
Haan, Peter - 2009
study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159937
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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Bandiera, Oriana - 2014
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063908
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Obstacles to Labour Market Participation Among Arab Women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826238
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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time
Biorn, Erik - 2010
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139712
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Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women’s Labor Force Participation 1968-2010
Macunovich, Diane - 2011
Relative cohort size – the ratio of young to prime-age adults – and relative income – the income of young adults relative to their material aspirations, as instrumented using the income of older families their parents' age – have experienced dramatic changes over the past 40 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121330
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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies
de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000063
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000066