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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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Labour market reform in Japan to cope with a shrinking and ageing population
Jones, Randall Sidney; Seitani, Haruki - 2019
– typically at age 60 – would enable employees to extend their careers and reduce the link between wages and seniority. It would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111108
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Addressing demographic headwinds in Japan: A long-term perspective
Jones, Randall S... - 2024
the challenge of reversing fertility trends, Japan needs to prepare for a low-fertility future by raising productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014568527
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Reforming the Labour Market in Japan to Cope with Increasing Dualism and Population Ageing
Jones, Randall - 2008
The proportion of non-regular workers has risen to one-third of total employment. While non-regular employment provides flexibility and cost reductions for firms, it also creates equity and efficiency concerns. A comprehensive approach that includes relaxing the high degree of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444219
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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023469
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Wage Growth Over the Past 30 Years : Changing Wages by Age and Education
Morissette, Rene - 2012
from various Statistics Canada surveys and focuses on the real (hourly or weekly) wages earned by full-time workers. It is … changed over the past three decades. Wages are expressed in 2010 dollars. Since the early 1980s, real wages of various groups … changes, growth in international trade, institutional factors (e.g., de-unionization, changes in minimum wages, and changes in …
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How could Germany escape the demographic trap?
Kahlenberg, Christoph; Spermann, Alexander - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665323
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Ageing of the workforce and wages : does the type of occupation matter?
Majchrowska, Aleksandra; Broniatowska, Paulina - In: Eastern European economics : EEE 57 (2019) 4, pp. 331-348
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203130
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The workforce's age structure and wages : do age and the type of occupation matter?
Majchrowska, Aleksandra; Broniatowska, Paulina - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174359
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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2014
a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is … that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the …
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