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This article presents empirical evidence with respect to two constraints on workers' intertemporal labor supply: the liquidity constraint which prevents workers from borrowing against future consumption to accommodate wage changes; and consumption commitments which, due to transaction costs,...
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This paper presents a stochastic integrated model to forecast the German population and labour supply until 2060. Within a cohort-component approach, the population forecast applies principal components to birth, mortality, emigration and immigration rates. The labour force participation rates...
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economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
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The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins and organization of their welfare states, which can be traced to a set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to...
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OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross … account for cross-country variations in both the level and the dynamics of employment rates of demographic groups. Second, we …-national differences in family attitudes. Studying the correlation between employment rates and family attitudes, we then show that the …
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. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …
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This paper proposes a simple and transparent methodology for decomposing changes in the aggregate labour force participation rate over time into changes in the labour force participation behaviour of different population groups and changes in each group’s population share. Unlike traditional...
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. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
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