Public Pensions and Labor Force Participation: The Case of Greece

Pensions , Labor Market Participation , and Economic Growth

This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who do not participate in the labor market are unable to borrow. Thus an increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. When labor force participation is determined endogenously, a rise in the level of fully funded pensio...

Productivity Investment and Labor Force Participation in Search Equilibrium

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...

Public pensions and labor supply over the life cycle

Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, and Economic Growth

This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who do not participate in the labor market are unable to borrow. Thus an increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate, since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. When labor force participation is determined endogenously, a rise in the level of fully funded pensi...

The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education on Females’ Labor Force Participation: A Case of Some Cities of Pakistan

The purpose of this study was to estimate the effect of gender inequality in education on females’ labor force participation in 14 major cities (rapidly urbanizing areas) of Pakistan after taking into account the socio-economic indicators like the marital status of female, the gender of the head of household, physical facilities, the median income of the household, etc. Data were gathered from ...