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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so …-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized … the period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees …
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LABORsim: an Agent-Based Microsimulation of Labour Supply. An Application to Italy
Leombruni, Roberto; Richiardi, Matteo - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2006
, however, to allow Italy to meet the EU Stockolm and Lisbon targets for male and female employment rates for many decades to … the retirement eligibility criteria, will make it possible to meet the Stockholm target of 50% employment rate in this age …
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Changing Labour Market Participation Since the Great Recession: A Regional Perspective
Cheung, Calista; Granovsky, Dmitry; Velasco, Gabriella - Bank of Canada - 2015
This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups …, weak business conditions appear to be the main driver behind the shift toward part-time employment since the Great …
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Technological Change and Immigration Policy
Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to address the effects of technological progress on immigrant skill composition. Our results from this positive model suggest that neutral and skill-biased technological change imply essentially different immigration policies. On the one hand,...
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Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico, strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United States,...
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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice: The (Near) Future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Anger, S.; Frick, F.; Goebel, J.; Grabka, M.; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...
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Discouraging Workers: Estimating the Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on the Search Intensity of the Unemployed
DeLoach, Stephen B.; Kurt, Mark - Department of Economics, Elon University - 2011
or not to search for employment, creating more discouraged workers. Since 2003, there have been a number of large …
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Older Workers' Training Opportunities in Times of Workplace Innovation
Magnani, Elisabetta - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research … - 2012
Training (for workers) and innovation (for workplaces) are not free lunches. From the viewpoint of the firm, training is also highly risky, because there is uncertainty over the size of any future returns from employer-provided training. Stylized facts stress that constraints in achieving...
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Is Aging Bad for the Economy? Maybe
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2014) 144, pp. 1-7
The world’s aging population is expected to shape the future of economies across the globe. Without behavioral adaptation by current and future generations, this demographic transformation is likely to slow down economic growth. However, aging will also induce behavioral adjustments in savings...
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Money, Wages, and Real Incomes in the Age of Erasmus: The Purchasing Power of Coins and of Building Craftsmen's Wages in England and the Low Countries, 1500 - 1540
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
This comparative study of money, coinages, prices, and wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries had its origins in a series of appendices and footnotes for the first twelve volumes of the Correspondence of Erasmus (1484-1527), part of the Collected Works of Erasmus, which the...
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