eprintid: 13745
rev_number: 29
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datestamp: 2016-08-22 11:49:49
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type: monograph
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item_issues_count: 2
creators_name: Loichinger, E.
creators_name: Prskawetz, A.
creators_id: 8480
creators_id: 2025
corp_creators: Wolfgang Lutz, Program Director World Population
title: Changes in Economic Activity: The Role of Age and Education
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_pop
abstract: The aim of the paper is to understand to which extend developments of labor force participation rates in selected European countries between 2000 and 2010 can be explained by age- and education-specific changes in participation rates as compared to changes in populations’ structural composition by age and education. We apply a decomposition methodology that allows us to disentangle changes in age- and education specific labor force participation rates from changes in the age and educational structure of the population. 
Our results show that labor force participation rates of adult women would have increased even more, had it not been for the downward pressure from the shift in the age composition towards older age-groups with relatively lower levels of participation. This downward pressure also depressed male participation. The increase in participation
among older persons is mainly explained by participation increases among those with non-tertiary education and reinforced by a general shift towards higher levels of
educational attainment. Our results indicate that labor supply may not decrease to the extent expected due to population aging, given educational expansion and education specific patterns of economic activity.
date: 2016-08-22
date_type: published
publisher: WP-16-012
creators_browse_id: 186
creators_browse_id: 100
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
projects: Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public (AGENTA, FP7 613247)
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fp7_project: yes
fp7_project_id: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613247/EU/Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances/AGENTA
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:   Loichinger, E. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/186.html> & Prskawetz, A. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/100.html>  (2016).  Changes in Economic Activity: The Role of Age and Education.   IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-012     
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13745/1/WP-16-012.pdf