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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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California's paid family leave law and the employment of 45-64 year old adults
Bartel, Ann; Kim, Soohyun; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - 2021
care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender
Laroque, Guy; Osotimehin, Sophie - 2014
This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976-2014. We separate fluctuations in hours worked into fluctuations in the average number of hours per worker (the intensive margin) and fluctuations in the number of individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470918
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What Can Boost Female Labor Force Participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko - 2015
towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024437
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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia : the role of spousal participation
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2013
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...
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Are Firms Willing to Employ a Greying and Feminizing Workforce?
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019
Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older … evidence that lifting the overall senior employment rate in the EU requires significantly raising that of women older than 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871853
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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates : A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101871
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896