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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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retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that …
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Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability. By employing a dynamic panel data model of labour...
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of … work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. Whilst the theory of compensating wage …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build an equilibrium life-cycle model with labor … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in …, especially in turbulent economic times and under stringent employment protection legislation …
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
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