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This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing especially on their earnings, public pension benefits, and health status. Using two-year panel data from the JSTAR and applying the OV model proposed by Stock and Wise (1990a,...
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challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …'s criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging …
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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …
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This paper documents and explores black-white differences in U.S. women's labor force participation, occupations, and wages from 1940 to 2014. It draws on closely related research on selection into the labor force, discrimination, and pre-labor market characteristics, such as test scores, that...
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International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …
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-intensive production, a shorter workday, lower intensity of work, greater job flexibility, and more formalized employment relationship …-market status of older workers. On one hand, technical and organizational modifications improved the elderly workers' employment … prospect by raising labor productivity, diminishing hours of work, and formalizing employment relations. On the other hand …
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New technologies like computers alter skill requirements. This paper explores two related effects of computers on older workers, who use computers less. The evolution of computer use in the Current Population Survey suggests that impending retirement reduces the incentive of older workers to...
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U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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