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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
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The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
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Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
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Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … inconsistent. Further reforms are needed to create better employment opportunities for older workers. This implies the abolishment …
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labour force participation and Belgium and Germany, countries where female labour force participation is relatively low … differently across different channels out of employment. We find evidence that the wife exerts a stronger influence on the husband …
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model of occupational age structure, its determinants and their impact on employment and re-employment opportunities for … show firstly that education, skills, training requirements and the compensation structure affect employment and re-employment … exert a clear-cut influence on employment and re-employment at older ages. Our findings suggest that future labor market …
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This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
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of older workers-in terms of their hours of work, the form of their employment or the tasks they undertake at work -may … be quite different from those of middle-aged or younger adults. An ageing population and higher employment rates for … the nature of paid work at older ages, how employment patterns differ for people in different circumstances and how the …
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penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 per cent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 per cent in Belgium …
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