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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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economic growth restrict younger workers' access to higher-paying roles and widen the age pay gap in favor of older workers …
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We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow … economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical … growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age …
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Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment …
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The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...
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An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...
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constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We use Natural Language Processing to measure the degree of overlap … between textual descriptions of occupations and characteristics which define age friendliness. Our index provides an … find that between 1990 and 2020 around three quarters of occupations have seen their age-friendliness increase and …
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce always worked from home (WFH) and 21.9 percent sometimes or rarely WFH … rate by up to 28 percentage points. Under our preferred estimates, we find that about half of the U.S. workforce worked …
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