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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets
Böhm, Michael Johannes; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial …-causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020 … age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497784
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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; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352240
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269124
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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; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884100
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980265
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Ageing and productivity: Introduction
Bloom, David E.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2013
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing … the economic effects of population ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293198
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371912
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Ageing and Productivity: Introduction
Bloom, David E.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing … the economic effects of population ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096064
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Residential Mobility and Housing Adjustment of Older Households in Europe
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700888