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Old-Age Labor Force Participation in Germany : What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017
The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...
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The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900 : Further Results
Margo, Robert A. - 2010
occupation. Because the probability of re-employment, conditional on unemployment, appears to have declined with age, the …
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Older Men's Labor Force Participation in Belgium
Jousten, Alain - 2018
changes to the institutional framework of relevance for labor market participation and employment. Drawing on data from the …
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The Labor Force Participation of Older Men in Canada
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2018
We explore recent trends in the labour force participation rates of men aged 55-69 in Canada. Following steady declines in participation until the mid-1990s, the participation rates of older men have increased substantially and have reached historically high rates among those aged 65-69. We...
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The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Health and Labor Supply of Older Adults : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch - 2016
Older adults have the highest rates of many health conditions for which medical marijuana may be effective in moderating symptoms and are at elevated risk of reducing labor supply due to poor health. Surprisingly little is known about how this group responds to medical marijuana laws. We provide...
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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014
We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (Samp;T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the Samp;T field in which they are...
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Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses : Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes
Davis, Steven J. - 2014
We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD tracks business transitions...
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Heterogeneity in the Effect of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Entry Size
Ardagna, Silvia - 2009
to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …
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Where Has All the Skewness Gone? The Decline in High-Growth (Young) Firms in the U.S
Decker, Ryan - 2016
employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 … percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We … show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the …
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Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2014
Recovery of causal relationships in data is an essential part of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. This chapter discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and regional economics for recovering such causal relationships. Essential to any successful empirical inquiry is...
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