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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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and all LFS waves covering the retrospective period. Combining demographic projections with expected employment rates and … data on educational achievement we forecast the employment composition up to 2030. If recent past changes in both age and …
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aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …
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Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings reveal a role of social policies and institutional factors that is stronger than what has so far been assessed. Labor...
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and senior employment. Results based on provincial data from 2004 to 2015, a period characterized by declining real GDP …, indicate that adding one thousand additional senior individuals to the local labour supply reduces employment in the age group … of growing real GDP, show smaller negative effects for young workers, suggesting that the employment costs of pension …
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structures a decade earlier. We find that aging substantially reduces experienced workers' relative wages and employment rates …
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Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
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This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative developments. Theory predicts that population ageing should...
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. In our empirical application we demonstrate that moderately large birth cohorts seem to experience lower employment rates …
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