Full Citation

Title: Essays in Labor Economics

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: Individual labor supply decisions and factors thet shape them are among the most studied topics in economics. This thesis focuses on the two important topics in this broad field. The first is the relative importance of government policies and non-policy factors in shaping the labor supply of elderly people. Second topic is the effect of a major policy intervention, the introduction of the statutory minimum wage in Germany, on the individual wage expectations and durations of unemployment spells. In the second chapter, I study the increase in the labor force supply of elderly in the US. In particular, since the mid-1980, the labor force participation and hours worked by the US seniors, those above 62, has been steadily increasing. The labor force participation was at the minimum of 16% in 1985 and reached 26% in 2013. This is in contrast to the steady decline of the labor force supply of seniors between 1950 and 1985. The labor supply behavior of seniors has very important implications for the sustainability of the Social Security system, which is a problem faced by many developed countries. As a result, understanding the driving factors behind the changes in the labor supply of seniors is critical.

Url: https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2018/hdl_10803_663904/alfi1de1.pdf

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Filatov, Alexey

Institution: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Department: Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica.

Advisor:

Degree:

Publisher Location:

Pages:

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States