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Demographic Pressure in the European Union

Peeters, Marga; Groot, Loek - 2012

On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...

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Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We focus on two frictions: uncertainty created by dual labor...

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The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2020

This paper studies the long term consequences on workers' labour earnings of the credit crunch induced by the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine years after the start of the crisis. We rely on a...

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Turbulence and the employment experience of older workers

Lalé, Etienne - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 2, pp. 735-784

depreciation upon job loss-and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …

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Social Efficiency of Sectoral Employment in Polish Regions

Cyrek, Magdalena - 2017

Research background: Regions that are able to use their resources in the most efficient way could be perceived as valuable benchmarks when shaping socio-economic policy. The efficiency, however, can be related not only to pure economic categories but to social goals as well. These two...

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The Influence of the Economic Situation on Employment and its Structure in the Central and Eastern European Countries

Zielinski, Mariusz - 2017

unemployment, income inequality, and underemployment. In most of the countries in the region, it was decided to increase labour …

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Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...

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The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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Wage Losses and Inequality in Developing Countries: labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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The Distributional Consequences of Social Distancing on Poverty and Labour Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2020

This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national laws and decrees on the strictness and the duration of...

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