The demographic composition of the U.S. labor force has changed dramatically over the past several decades. My Dissertation examines the age distribution, the supply of skills, and the participation of women in the workforce. The …rst chapter postulates a connection between the age distribution and the business cycle. I develop an overlapping generations model featuring search frictions and pro...

This paper considers the effect of child care costs on two labor market decisions of single mothers--whether to participate in the labor market and whether to receive AFDC. Weekly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the sample (taken from the 1984 Panel of SIPP), whether or not they are currently using nonmaternal child care. These expenditures are then included as an indepen...

Who is out of the labor force early: the unhealthy or the healthy; the @.urwially fortunate or the u* fortunate? To answer these and other questions about retzrement in the United states, personal interviezc-a toere conducted in 1969 with &.lSS men representing the noninstitutionalized populattin aged 5S-6.9 The interviews revealed that 17 percent of the men were out of the labor force at the t...

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using the 1993-95 Japanese Panel Surveys of Consumption, the structural estimation result of a dynamic decision model suggests that women bene...t from labor for...

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 workers per retiree to shoulder the financial burden of the pension systems. This paper shows that a signif...

Although there have been significant developments in the female labor force participation rate Turkey recent years, this is below OECD average. There are various social and economic reasons behind situation. This study, Türkiye TR22 Sub-region, investigates with a logit model, taking into account variables of age, relationship to head household, marital status, education level, household size. ...