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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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maintaining employment or creating employment. In terms of the instrument used, a firm can either adjust wages or adjust both … working hours and wages. We exclude the employment-creating type of work sharing programs from our discussion since it is … aimed at long-term and structural issues and not on short-run business cycles on which this study focuses. The wage-adjustment/employment …
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The QE Staffing and Scheduling Methods (QE Methods) were originally developed to optimize staffing and scheduling systems in seven day a week health care facilities, but the methods are applicable to all industries currently operating, or planning to operate, seven days a week.The driving force...
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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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's employment opportunities than the muted U patterns found in some specifications. Given the large margins of error in …
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jobs respond by adjusting the extensive margin of employment. Our estimates are identified off of comparisons of similar …
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focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable … employment - possibly due to a decline in reservation wages. Accordingly, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search …
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In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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I study the impact of idiosyncratic earnings uncertainty on aggregate saving and employment in an economy populated by … equilibrium. In particular there might be one equilibrium with high (female) employment and low savings and another one with low … employment and high savings. The model suggests that aggregate saving and employment rates should be negatively correlated across …
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