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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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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
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Older men : pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment ; bridge jobs ; baby boom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929123
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Gender and the total work of older workers in Asia
Donehower, Gretchen - 2023
In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people's labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do-unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312916
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337413
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates : a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment …, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual … working hours, and satisfaction with leisure and work. -- Age ; Family gap ; Gender ; Job search ; Labor supply ; Reservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269220
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates : a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment …, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual … working hours, and satisfaction with leisure and work. -- Age ; family gap ; gender ; job search ; labor supply ; reservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541695
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What effect does increasing the retirement age have on the employment rate of older women? : empirical evidence from retirement age hikes in Hungary during the 2000s
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2014
This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348302
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470918
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792967