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Demographics and Unemployment
Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor; Zoega, Gylfi; Phelps, Edmund S. - 2003
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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Measuring labour market flexibility in the OECD countries
Kiander, Jaakko; Virén, Matti - 2000
over time. These observations seem to be helpful in explaining for the behaviour of unemployment rates in the OECD area …
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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labour marketspace for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
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Demographic pressure in the European Union
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2012
On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...
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Demographic Change Across the Globe - Maintaining Social Security in Ageing Economies
Peeters, Marga - 2012
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labor market space for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113360
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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation
Peeters, Marga - 2012
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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Increased labor market participation can't do the job of mastering Germany's demographic change in the future
Brenke, Karl; Clemens, Marius - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 325-334
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 effect of demographic change on the Swiss labor market : the role of participation rates
Buchmann, Manuel - 2020
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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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169699
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The interplay between trade unions and the social security system in an aging economy
Friese, Max - 2019 - Revised version
This paper investigates how demographic change affects the financial sustainability of a defined benefit pay-as-you-go social security system in an environment with collective bargaining on the labor market. Temporary equilibrium analysis shows that the contribution rate decreases, if the...
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