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Labor Force Transitions at Older Ages : Burnout, Recovery, and Reverse Retirement
Piyapromdee, Suphanit; Jacobs, Lindsay (2016-04-29)
Partial and reverse retirement are two key behaviors characterizing labor force dynamics for individuals at older ages, with half working part-time and over a third leaving and later re-entering the labor force. The high rate of exit and re-entry is especially surprising given the declining wage profile at older ages and opportunities for re-entry in the future being uncertain. In this paper we study the effects of wage and health transition processes as well as the role of accrues work-related strain on the labor force participation on older males. We find that a model incorporating a work ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2016-053

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Sources of wage dispersion: the contribution of interemployer differentials within industry
Groshen, Erica L. (1988)
An analysis of variance in individual production workers' wages within and between establishments, using BLS Industry Wage Surveys to examine establishment-based wage differentials.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 8802

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Accounting for earnings inequality in a diverse work force
Schweitzer, Mark E. (1993)
A general decomposition of earnings inequality is applied to the complete full-time labor force, including minorities and women. The results confirm that education premiums were the largest observable factor in the rise in earnings inequality in the 1980s, and also reveal an offsetting reduction in the role of race- and sex-related earnings differences.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9314

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Changes in job quality and trends in labor hours
Coulibaly, Brahima (2006)
Many economic models featuring labor supply decision, especially in macroeconomic analysis, assume away heterogeneity in the nature of work, or assume that the nature of work is irrelevant to the labor/leisure choice. This paper studies the macroeconomic implications of relaxing this assumption. Estimation from micro data using labor hours, wages, consumption, and nonpecuniary job characteristics suggests that labor supply responds to differences and to changes in the nature of work. Ceteris paribus, some job characteristics induce more labor hours than others do. Labeling the jobs that embed ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 882

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The dynamics of informal employment
Moe, Karine S.; Ihrig, Jane E. (2000)
The informal sector, which produces legal goods but does not comply with government regulations, is a functioning part of all economies, with a proportion of the labor force ranging from 17 percent in OECD countries to 60 percent in developing countries. Using a dynamic model that includes an informal sector, this paper illustrates the natural dynamics of the sector, describes how tax policy affects its size, and quantifies the costs of having it. Simulations yield movements in informal employment and output consistent with empirical observations. We find that the U.S. informal sector ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 664

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The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work
Kimball, Miles S.; Epstein, Brendan (2014-06-06)
We develop a theory that focuses on the general equilibrium and long-run macroeconomic consequences of trends in job utility. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per capita can remain approximately constant over time even if the income effect of higher wages on labor supply exceeds the substitution effect. In addition, secular improvements in job utility can be substantial relative to welfare gains from ordinary technological progress. These two implications are connected by an equation flowing from optimal hours choices: improvements in job utility that have a significant ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 1106

Journal Article
The labor market in an expanding economy
anonymous (1966-10)
Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Oct

Conference Paper
Waiting for work
Akerlof, George A.; Yellen, Janet L.; Rose, Andrew K. (1990-11)
Proceedings , Issue Nov

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Economic effects of immigrants on native and foreign-born workers: complementarity, substitutability, and other channels of influence
Hunt, Gary L.; Greenwood, Michael J. (1990-11)
Proceedings , Issue Nov

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: evidence and implications
Alexander, J. Trent; Stevenson, Betsey; Davern, Michael (2010)
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an analysis of labor force participation and marriage rates suggests the PUMS samples are not representative of the population at individual ages for those ages 65 and over. PUMS files substantially underestimate labor force ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2010-03

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