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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 … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

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Women are Key for Future Growth : Evidence from Canada

Petersson, Bengt - 2017

How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...

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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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Can Women Save Japan?

Steinberg, Chad Bennett - 2012

Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates...

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Chronicle of a Decline Foretold : Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?

Das, Mitali - 2013

fertility, greater labor participation rates, financial reform or higher productivity-may peripherally delay or accelerate the …

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Beyond the Annual Averages : Impact of Seasonal Temperature on Employment Growth in US Counties

Nguyen, Ha - 2023

Using quarterly temperature and employment data between 1990 and 2021, this paper uncovers nuanced evidence on the … impact of seasonal temperature within US counties: higher winter temperature increases private sector employment growth while … “Financial Activities.” In contrast, the positive effects of a warmer winter are less pervasive. The employment effect of a …

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Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban...

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Storm Clouds Ahead? Migration and Labor Force Participation Rates in Europe

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The paper examines the potential effects of international migration on labor force participation in advanced economies in Europe. It documents that migration played a significant role in alleviating aging pressures on labor supply by affecting the age composition of receiving countries'...

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Permanently Displaced? Increasingly Disconnected? Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The United States stands out among advanced economies with marked declines in labor force participation. National averages furthermore conceal considerable within-country heterogeneity. This paper explores regional differences to shed light on drivers of participation rates at the state and...

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Africa's Got Work to Do : Employment Prospects in the New Century

Fox, Louise - 2013

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on … household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-typemodel that relates employment to economic growth and … employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africarealizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in …

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