The labor force is projected to reach 129 million persons in 1995, up from 114 million in 1984, according to new Bureau of Labor Statistics projections . The new middle growth projections show the labor force growing at a slower rate over the 1984-95 period than over the 1975-84 period, with the slowest growth occurring during the early 1990's . Blacks are expected to account for a larger share...

The present paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the human capital investment and participation decision of heterogeneous workers in the search and matching framework‎. ‎Its aim is to characterize the equilibrium and to identify the efficiency‎. ‎Here‎, the paper studies search equilibrium and matching to consider the participation decision of heterogeneous workers who have differen...

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended in 1978 to prohibit mandatory retirement before age 70 in most occupations. The impact of this legislation on the probability of older persons remaining in the labor force is the primary concern of this article. Specifically, questions concerning which older workers are affected by mandatory-retirement provisions and the extent to whic...

This paper examines the causal impact of labor force participation on informal caregiving. To address the endogeneity of labor force participation, we exploit local business cycles and instrument for individual labor force participation with state unemployment rates. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we find that labor force participation significantly reduc...

This article investigates the effect of age and number of children on retirement, and tries to explain increasing labor force participation rate since the mid-1990’s in the United States. I estimate a life-cycle model to figure out how number and age of children affect the retirement age of parents, and simulate life-cycle paths of the labor force participation rate by using the estimated model...

Tabulations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that the steady increase in U.S. women’s labor force participation that characterized the post-World War II period has largely subsided. For most groups of women (all women, married women, and women with children), the trend line in the labor force participation rate flattened out in the earlyto mid-1990s after nearly four decades of st...

extended abstract introduction the fertility transition in iran has pass through different stages from 1972-2015.the total fertility rate (tfr) decreased from 7.7 in 1966 to around 6 in 1976.then it rose to 7 in 1980.tfr decline to 5.5 in 1988.in 1996,thetotal fertility rate reach to 2.8,more than 50% decline. tfr has declined further and reached 2.17 in 2000, and 1.9 in 2012 i.e. below replace...

The labor supply incentives provided by the early retirement rules of the United States Social Security Old Age benefits program are of growing importance as the Normal Retirement Age (NRA) increases to 67, and the labor force participation of Older Americans starts to increase. These incentives allow individuals who claim benefits before the NRA but continue to work, or return to the labor for...