Labour force participation rates vary greatly by age, with persons 55 and over having much lower participation rates …-participation rate 65 and over age group. The movement of the baby boom generation into the 65 and over group in coming years will ….5 points. Of course, greater than expected trend increases in labour force participation rates by older age groups could offset …

factors, such as the growing recognition of the importance of education for success on the job market. Structural factors were … as a cyclical response to weak employment opportunities in Canada. The authors find composition changes in the age … factors affecting labour force participation of the major age-sex groups, the authors forecast a rise in the aggregate …

generosity; an age or life-cycle effect; and a cohort-specific effect which shows the differences between cohorts for a given age … cohort effect so that the age profile and its slope can trace both the rise and the flattening of the participation rate by … age. They point out that over time participation behaviour of women 25-64 is converging toward that of men, namely, high …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …

industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …

This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976 …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …

the household head are critical. The indirect effects of education, gender, residence, and age are clearly notable … to poverty reduction. The main objective of the current study is to examine the extent to which gender, education … and 30 years. The main findings based on a binary logistic regression approach, reveal that education, gender, residence …