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Shrinking Labor Forces and Early Retirement

Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor - 2002

The withdrawal of older workers from the labor force creates a variety of economic challenges, including an increase in unused production capacity. Costs due to early retirement measured in terms of forgone output averaged 6.3 percent of potential gross domestic product in the OECD in 1998....

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Labour market institutions for an ageing labour force in Slovenia

Fialho, Priscilla; Høj, Jens - 2020

Population ageing will lead to a smaller and older workforce. Looking forward, this means that growth will increasingly depend on ensuring the best use of Slovenian workers. This implies keeping older and experience workers longer in employment and better support difficult-to-employ low-skilled...

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Labor Force Participation Rates : The Population Age 55 and Older, 2008

Copeland, Craig - 2010

This paper examines recent U.S. Census Bureau data on labor-force participation among Americans age 55 and older, which includes both the near elderly (ages 55-64) and the elderly (64 and above). The first section uses annualized data on labor-force participation from the Current Population...

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Early Retirement Across Europe. Does Non-Standard Employment Increase Participation of Older Workers?

Been, Jim; van Vliet, Olaf - 2014

In many European countries, the labor market participation of older workers is considerably lower than the labor market participation of prime-age workers. This study analyzes the variation in labor market withdrawal of older workers across 13 European countries over the period 1995-2008. We...

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The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force and Productivity

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; Powell, David - 2016

Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical … trends in fertility. We use predicted variation in the rate of population aging across U.S. states over the period 1980 …-2010 to estimate the economic impact of aging on state output per capita. We find that a 10% increase in the fraction of the …

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The evolution of labor force participation and the expected length of retirement in Brazil

Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; Alves Ferreira, Matheus Lobo - In: Journal of the economics of ageing 18 (2021), pp. 1-11

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Under pressure: Romania's labour market review : landmarks of labour shortages

Chivu, Luminita; Georgescu, George; Bratiloveanu, Alina; … - 2020

In recent years, the labour market in Romania became more and more tense, with growing labour shortages affecting the development of many important sectors. This paper is focusing on the labour market imbalances, specifying the main landmarks of labour shortages and highlighting their conditions...

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Do Monthly Labor Force Surveys Affect Interviewees’ Labor Market Behavior? Evidence from Israel’s Transition from Quarterly to Monthly Surveys

Etkes, Haggay - 2014

This study provides evidence for the impact of monthly interviews conducted for the Israeli Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) on estimated flows between Labor Force (LF) statuses and on coefficients in fixed-effects estimations. The study uses the natural experiment of parallel interviews for the...

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How Destructive is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement

Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...

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Participation Rate and Labour Force Growth in Canada

Sims, Harvey; Ciuriak, Dan - 2010

This paper analyzes the determinants of participation rate movements in Canada from the early 1950s through the 1970s, with a particular focus on the socio-economic determinants of the changing labour force attachment of successive cohorts of adult men and women and young persons, and develops...

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