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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The Us and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021

absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan

Tomiura, Eiichi - 2021

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...

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Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation : Evidence in Germany and Across Europe

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021

All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less...

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The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers

Bound, John; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Schoenbaum, Michael; … - 2021

This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor force transitions, including labor force exit, job...

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An International Comparison of Employment Adjustment to Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Burgess, Simon M.; Knetter, Michael M. - 2021

This paper evaluates the response of employment to exchange rate shocks at the industry level for the G-7 countries … data are consistent with the view that employment in European industries, at least France and Germany, is much less … United Kingdom and Italy all appear to adjust more quickly. German and Japanese employment are quite insensitive to exchange …

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The Surprising Symmetry of Gross Job Flows

Foote, Christopher L. - 2021

A large literature attempts to explain the asymmetric behavior of job destruction and job creation over the business cycle. This paper contends that much of this asymmetry is spurious. Analyzing gross flows in relation to the net flow virtually eliminates cyclical asymmetry in annual data and...

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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana; Allen, Steven G.; Labadie, Gaston J. - 2021

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …

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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions

Anderson, Patricia M.; Levine, Phillip B. - 2021

Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...

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