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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?
Clarke, Andrew James - 2018
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926700
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
Bellou, Andriana - 2014
retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039578
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Fear of Labor Rigidities : The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo - 2016
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …
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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
Engdahl, Mattias - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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Leaving the Labor Market Early in Sweden Learning from International Experience
Bengtsson, Mats; König, Stefanie; Schönbeck, Simon; … - 2022
It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from the labour market. However, the regulations have become...
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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147862
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Divergence in Labour Force Growth : Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas - 2020
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2012
Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability. By employing a dynamic panel data model of labour...
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