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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F. - 2013
onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment. Using …
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe : A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz - 2021
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017
This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...
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Live Longer, Work Longer : The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries
Martin, John P. - 2018
Population ageing poses stark dilemmas for labour markets, social protection systems and cultural norms. It will put strong downward pressure on labour supply, leading to falling real incomes and huge financial pressures on social protection systems unless there is an offsetting increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919499
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Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2019
Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...
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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …) differences across European countries in the role played respectively by unemployment and labor force participation. The model …
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment?Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way outof (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemploymentand previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis …
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