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Adjusting to an Aging Labor Force
Lazear, Edward P. - 2021
Demographic changes in the labor force will imply that firms must change their labor policies in the coming decades. My estimates suggest that the labor force will get older and more female. The aging will not be as pronounced for males as for females because the trend toward early retirement...
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The Age Profile of Life-Satisfaction after Age 65 in the U.S
Hudomiet, Péter; Hurd, mhurd@rand.org; Rohwedder, Susann - 2021
Although income and wealth are frequently used as indicators of well-being, they are increasingly augmented with subjective measures such as life satisfaction to capture broader dimensions of individuals’ well-being. Based on data from large surveys of individuals, life satisfaction in...
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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age
Farber, Henry S. - 2018
We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …
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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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Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
-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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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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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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Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Spain
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar - 2018
Similar to other OECD countries, labor force participation rates of Spanish older workers were falling until the mid-1990s when there was a reversal in the trend. Labor force participation rates of Spanish men have been increasing since then, although at a slower pace than in other OECD...
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Why are People Working Longer in the Netherlands?
Kalwij, Adriaan - 2018
Labor force participation at older ages has been rising in the Netherlands since the mid-nineteen-nineties. Reforms of the social security and pension systems have often been put forward as main explanations for this rise. However, participation rates above the normal retirement age of 65 have...
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Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan
Oshio, Takashi - 2018
countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment … been a key driver of the long-term trend change in elderly employment. A series of social security reforms have helped …
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