Alexia Prskawetz
Barbara Zagaglia
Thomas Fent
Vegard Skirbekk

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/7/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.7

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Abstract
In this paper we study changes in the size and the composition of the labour force in five OECD countries from 1983 through 2000. We apply a recent decomposition method to quantify the components of the change over time in the crude labour force rate and the mean age of the labour force. Our results show that the change in the crude labour force rate was dominated by the change in age-specific labour force participation rates. For the mean age of the labour force we find that for males the change in the age composition of the population predominately explains the overall change while the results for females are less clear-cut.

Author's affiliation
Alexia Prskawetz
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Barbara Zagaglia
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Thomas Fent
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Vegard Skirbekk
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

Keywords
decomposition method, labor force, labor force indicators, population aging

Word count (Main text)
5000

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