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Increased labor market participation can't do the job of mastering Germany's demographic change in the future
Brenke, Karl; Clemens, Marius - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 325-334
In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population … labor market. Most recently, Germany’s potential labor force has grown as a consequence of many factors, including migration … the future, Germany will be more or less reliant on migration. This is the finding of various model calculations showing …
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Optimal Tax Credits in the Context of the German System of Apprenticeship Training and Social Security
Fleischhauer, Kai-Joseph - 2007
There is an ongoing discussion in Germany about the implementation of tax credits in order to reintegrate low …
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Intra-Household Coping Mechanisms in Hard Times : The Added Worker Effect In the 2001 Argentine Economic Crisis
Martinoty, Laurine - 2015
This paper shows that the added worker effect (AWE) plays an important role in coping against aggregate shocks, even in cases where the discouragement effect prevails at a macroeconomic scale. Using an Argentine panel dataset between 2000-2002, we instrument the endogenous variation in the labor...
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Economic Crises and the Added Worker Effect in the Turkish Labor Market
Degirmenci, Serkan; Ilkkaracan, Ipek - 2013
Turkish economic growth has been characterized by periodic crises since financial liberalization reforms were enacted in the early 1990s. Given the phenomenally low female labor force participation rate in Turkey (one of the lowest in the world) and the limited scope of the country’s...
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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliy; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - 2021
The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners’ adverse labor market outcomes. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE that allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. The AWE reduces the fraction of households...
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The Economic Crisis of 2008 and the Added Worker Effect in Transition Countries
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated sectors were hit the hardest. These developments have prompted many to argue that...
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Spatial dependence in the cyclical sensitivity of labour supply : an analysis at the regional level in Ecuador
Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 12, pp. 1-28
The labour supply has historically been subject to influence from the economic cycle. On the other hand, there is a paucity of research in the Latin American region examining the impact of social factors on labour participation in diverse contexts. This study examines the spatial dependence of...
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Economic crises and the added worker effect in the Turkish labor market
Değirmenci, Serkan; Ilkkaracan, İpek - 2013
Turkish economic growth has been characterized by periodic crises since financial liberalization reforms were enacted in the early 1990s. Given the phenomenally low female labor force participation rate in Turkey (one of the lowest in the world) and the limited scope of the country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791594
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The economic crisis of 2008 and the added worker effect in transition countries
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries - the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741445
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Long-term unemployment and labor force participation : a decomposition of unemployment to test for the discouragement and added worker hypotheses
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2015
vor. Deshalb haben wir mit Daten für Deutschland, getrennt nach Alter und Geschlecht, die Arbeitslosenrate nach Kurz- und …
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