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Decomposing the Change in Labour Force Indicators over Time

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  • Alexia Prskawetz
  • Barbara Zagaglia
  • Thomas Fent
  • Vegard Skirbekk

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In this paper we study changes in the size and the composition of the labour force in five OECD countries from 1983 through 2000. We apply a recent decomposition method to quantify the components of the change over time in the crude labour force rate and the mean age of the labour force. Our results show that the change in the crude labour force rate was dominated by the change in age-specic labour force participation rates. For the mean age of the labour force we nd that for males the change in the age composition of the population predominately explains the overall change while the results for females are less clear-cut.

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Paper provided by Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in its series European Demographic Research Papers with number 0401.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: May 2009
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Handle: RePEc:vid:eudgrp:0401

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  1. Courtney Coile & Jonathan Gruber, 2000. "Social Security and Retirement," NBER Working Papers 7830, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Robert Shimer, 2001. "The Impact Of Young Workers On The Aggregate Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 116(3), pages 969-1007, August.
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  1. Golo Henseke & Pascal Hetze & Thusnelda Tivig, 2007. "Aging in German Industries and Selected Professions (Alterung der Erwerbspersonen in Deutschland)," Thuenen-Series of Applied Economic Theory 73, University of Rostock, Institute of Economics, Germany.

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