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This paper introduces the age structure of the population into the analysis of medium term unemployment swings. We … incorporate age-related features into the Shapiro-Stiglitz shirking model and find that the observed age pattern of unemployment … particular the ageing of the baby-boom generation - has caused OECD wide unemployment to be 50 basis points lower than what it …
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In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because...
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The ongoing demographic change is expected to negatively affect the effective labor supply of various developed countries. In order to counteract these developments, many suggested policy measures target the participation rate of women and old workers. In this paper, I develop a multi-sectoral...
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Should monetary policy offset the effects of labor supply shocks on inflation and the output gap? Canonical New … wage growth, which entails a period of higher inflation and a positive output gap. A welfare analysis of policy rules shows …
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achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …
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their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to …) the impact of differences in labour force growth upon unemployment in Eurozone countries has been significant and (ii) the …
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their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to …) the impact of differences in labour force growth upon unemployment in Eurozone countries has been significant and (ii) the …
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their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to … impact of differences in labour force growth upon unemployment in Eurozone countries has been significant and (ii) the German …
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standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly … workers. -- Vacancies and Separations ; Unemployment ; Job Creation ; Aging of the Labor Force ; Demographic Change …
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Although the size of the labor force is nearly acyclical, worker flows between employment and unemployment on the one … paper lays out a job-search model to uncover the determinants of worker flows between employment, unemployment and … probability to move from inactivity into unemployment. Second, high-productivity workers who are less likely to drop from the …
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