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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337413
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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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. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because...
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The demographic dilemma : fertility, female labor force participation and future growth in Germany 2007-2060
Dudel, Christian - 2009
The aim of this paper is to show possible consequences of changes in labor force participation of women and the connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For this purpose a projection model based on micro-data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634372
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The relationship between fertility and female participation in the labour force in OECD countries 2000-2020 : it is (again) negative
Milovanović, Miloš - In: Central European economic journal 10 (2023) 57, pp. 254-274
The cross-sectional association between female labour force participation rates and fertility in developed countries shifted from negative to positive during the 1980s. Ever since then, researchers have applied different statistical approaches; therefore, the present study re-evaluates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445087
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Labour Force Transitions of Women in India : A Panel Analysis
Sarkar, Sudipa - 2017
growing literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force entry and … endogenous switching model that corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, we investigate the … determinants of women’s entry into and exit from employment. We find that an increase in income of other members of the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122844
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534612
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557664
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The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk
Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022
human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484646