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The US labour force participation debacle : learning from the contrast with Britain
Richiardi, Matteo; Nolan, Brian; Kenworthy, Lane - 2018
This paper uses the marked divergence in labour force participation trends between the US and the UK to probe underlying drivers and implications for recent US poor performance. Contrary to a common US narrative, our comparative perspective suggests that the relative decline in US labour force...
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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023
region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334973
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Is there an advantage to working? : the relationship between maternal employment and intergenerational mobility
Stinson, Martha H.; Gottschalk, Peter - 2015
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Female employment and fertility trajectories in Spain : an optimal matching analysis
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; Legazpe, Nuria - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 28 (2014) 4, pp. 633-650
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396200
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A dynamic model of female labor force participation rate and human capital investment
Szulga, Radek - In: Journal of economic development 39 (2014) 3, pp. 81-114
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Explaining the male native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden : the role of human capital and migrant categories
Bevelander, Pieter; Luik, Marc-André; Emilsson, Henrik - 2016
Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in … the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …, large unexplained employment gaps still persists between immigrants and natives and between migrant categories. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476506
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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …
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Parental leave and maternal employment
Kunze, Astrid - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939928
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581624
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848