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All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less...
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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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This paper shows that firms spread the adverse impacts of local employment shocks across regions through their internal … establishment-level employment responds strongly to employment shocks in other regions in which the firm has establishments …. Consistent with theory, the elasticity of establishment-level employment with respect to shocks in other regions is increasing …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries, the … employment share in manufacturing has not peaked and is still expanding, albeit from very low levels. More work is needed to … understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
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benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a … decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This …
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Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects. This paper starts from the observation that many U.S. states have already experienced substantial growth in the size of their older...
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U.S. output has expanded only slowly since the recession trough in 2009, even though the unemployment rate has essentially returned to a pre-crisis, normal level. We use a growth-accounting decomposition to explore explanations for the output shortfall, giving full treatment to cyclical effects...
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