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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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-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two … decades. Key results include that the business cycle is found to exert a negative effect on part-time employment developments …. This is consistent with firms utilising part-time employment as a means of adjusting their labour force to economic …
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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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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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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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