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Adjusted employment-to-population ratio as an indicator of labor market strength

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014

As a measure of labor market strength, the raw employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) confounds employment outcomes with … labor supply behavior. Movement in the EPOP depends on the relative movements of the employment rate (one minus the …

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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation

Peeters, Marga - 2012

Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...

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Decomposing Changes in the Aggregate Labor Force Participation Rate

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014

This paper presents a simple methodology for decomposing changes in the aggregate labor force participation rate (LFPR) over time into demographic group changes in labor force participation behavior and in population share. The purpose is to identify the relative importance of behavioral changes...

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Labor Force Participation in Chile : Recent Trends, Drivers, and Prospects

Blagrave, Patrick - 2017

Gains in labor force participation rates in Chile have slowed in recent years. We examine their determinants using a cohort-model analysis. Allowing for both age- and cohort-specific effects in the context of a seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) approach, we find that age factors...

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Black Employment Trends since the Great Recession

Masterson, Thomas - 2018

The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment–population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment–population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …

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The Dynamics of the Italian Labour Force Participation Rate : Determinants and Implications for the Employment and Unemployment Rate

de Philippis, Marta - 2017

This work analyzes the evolution of the labour force participation rate in Italy, as compared with the other main euro-area countries in the last decade. It breaks down the dynamics of the activity rate into the portion due to changes in the average socio-demographic characteristics of the...

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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 …

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Demographic versus Cyclical Influences on US Labor Force Participation

Cline, William R. - 2014

This paper applies time series analysis to distinguish between cyclical and demographic causes of the decline of the labor force participation rate. Some public discussions suggest that the decline of US unemployment from its 2009 peak of 10 percent to about 6 percent by mid-2014 grossly...

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Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

Newhouse, David Locke - 2014

correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …

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Adjusted Employment-to-Population Ratio as an Indicator of Labor Market Strength

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2015

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