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Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions

By Benjamin Hilgenstock, Zsoka Koczan

July 13, 2018

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Benjamin Hilgenstock, and Zsoka Koczan. Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed November 13, 2024

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Summary

The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban regions. Unlike in the United States, however, trade and technology, captured here using novel measures of initial exposures to routinization and offshoring, did not result in detachment from the workforce in European regions. Instead, regions with high initial exposures to routinization and offshoring experienced so-far larger increases in participation, likely driven by an added second worker effect.

Subject: Aging, Employment, Labor, Labor force participation, Population and demographics, Technology

Keywords: Automation, Cyclical condition, Dependency ratio, Effects of automation, Employment, Employment-reducing effect, Europe, Exposure to offshoring, Exposure to routinization, Global, Inactivity rate area, Labor force, Labor force participation, Offshoring distribution, Offshoring due, Supply chain integration, Technology, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2018/165

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2018165

  • ISBN:

    9781484367636

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941