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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 Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially-responsible companies. FLA promotes adherence to international and national labour laws as this non-governmental organisation advocates for greater accountability and...
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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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We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …
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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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labor market (e.g. Autor 2010). However, the dynamics and related mechanism behind these employment trends are not fully …. First, into what employment states or occupations do unemployed persons who were formerly employed in low-, middle-, or high …-skill occupations transition? Second, how have transitions between job types and employment states changed over time, and how have these …
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A key parameter in structural models is the Frisch elasticity of labor supply at the extensive margin, but empirical estimates vary greatly. We provide a quantitative synthesis of the literature. To this end, we collect 723 estimates from 36 studies along with 22 explanatory variables reflecting...
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Do short-term contracts facilitate the transition into permanent contracts? We use a rich administrative database for the Emilia-Romagna northern region in Italy from 2008 to 2012 to run a stepping-stone analysis and evaluate which contractual agreement is more likely to lead to a permanent...
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