Artikel

Improvement in European labor force participation

Employment and labor force participation (LFP) rates have increased throughout Europe since the 1990s, with little interruption from the Great Recession. While many credit labor market reforms for this progress, ongoing educational expansion might actually be more important. This implies that the overall employment rate of an economy can change if the share of the population with tertiary education increases, even in the absence of any labor market reforms or effects of the business cycle. Taking this compositional effect into account makes it possible to disentangle the impact of reforms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2019 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Economics: General
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Thema
human capital
labor market reforms
tertiary education
aging

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gros, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.449
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Gros, Daniel
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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