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Demographic pressure, excess labour supply and public-private sector employment in Egypt - Modelling labour supply to analyse the response of unemployment, public finances and welf...
Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
employment dividend can be reaped by productivity growth increases if the labour market starts functioning. The findings also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025325
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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. Our modeling approach allows life expectancy and the nature of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112153
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Інституціональна пастка: моделювання ринку праці в Україні
Filippova, Irina; Balakhnin, Hary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
An institutional trap emerges in the gap between actual wage rate in Ukraine and the wage that provides the growth in working-age population. This activates the mechanism of demographic trap.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260383
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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum
canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789327
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Projections of the Development of Population and Employment in Austria until 2035
Biehl, Kai; Fent, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper investigates the future development of the Austrian population for the period from 2005 to 2035. The main focus of our investigation lies on the working age population and its age structure. Our calculations are based on the population projection released by Statistik Austria in 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789467
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Representative Time Use Data and Calibration of the American Time Use Studies 1965-1999
Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Valid and reliable individual time use data in connection with an appriate set of socio -economic background variables are essential elements of an empirical foundation and evaluation of existing time use theories and for the search of new empirical-based hypotheses about individual behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790096
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Child Labor at District Level: A Case Study of Rawalpindi
Kulsoom, Rafia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Child labor is one of the problems that occur as a result of responses to the economic problems faced by vulnerable children. Keeping in view the theoretical background of existence of child labor across the world, the study analyzes the incidence of child labor from Rawalpindi city of Pakistan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502736
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Representative time use data and new harmonised calibration of the American Heritage Time Use Data (AHTUD) 1965-1999
Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Representative and reliable individual time use data, in connection with a proper set of socio-economic back-ground variables, are essential elements for the empirical foundation and evaluation of existing and new theories in general and in particular for time use analyses. Within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616976
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Background Study on Labour Market and Employment in Bulgaria
Beleva, Iskra; Tzanov, Vasil; Noncheva, Teodora; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
A factual and descriptive analysis of the employment situation in Bulgaria showed that the transition to a market … economy has led to a substantial reduction of employment. The economic restructuring has begun in 1990 has proved very … part of foreign investors. From 1990-1998 employment has decreased by one and one-half million people. The high labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109465
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Female labour supply in india: proximate determinants
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259044