Labour Force Participation of Women Over 45
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This paper by Geoff Gilfillan and Les Andrews was released on 17 January 2011.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 271 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments and Abbreviations and explanations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 258 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 153 Kb)
1.1 Projected labour force 'shrinkage' heightens interest in participation
1.2 Scope to lift female workforce participation?
1.3 Objectives of the study
1.4 Guide to the study - Chapter 2 Trends in labour force engagement (PDF - 301 Kb)
2.1 The contribution made to total hours worked
2.2 The scope to increase labour force engagement - Chapter 3 Lifestyle choices and work preferences of mature aged women (PDF - 231 Kb)
3.1 A framework for considering participation decisions
3.2 Time use by women and men
3.3 Broad factors influencing work preferences
3.4 Is there scope to increase the work contribution of mature aged women? - Chapter 4 Demand influences on participation decisions of mature aged women (PDF - 255 Kb)
4.1 Where do mature aged women work?
4.2 Decomposition of employment growth for mature aged women
4.3 Labour market segmentation
4.4 Age discrimination
4.5 Employment growth projections for the future - Chapter 5 Supply influences on participation decisions of mature aged women (PDF - 283 Kb)
5.1 Household characteristics — family characteristics, marital status and the presence of children
5.2 Impact of education on labour force status
5.3 Impact of own health on labour force participation
5.4 Caring responsibilities
5.5 Responsiveness of women's labour force participation to changes in wages
5.6 Impact of previous labour force experience
5.7 Impact of ethnicity on participation
5.8 Impact of current economic conditions on labour force participation - Chapter 6 The returns from employment (PDF - 195 Kb)
6.1 Basis of employment
6.2 Wages
6.3 Why is there a gender wage gap and is it narrowing? - Chapter 7 Exiting the labour force (PDF - 253 Kb)
7.1 Retirement age
7.2 Retirement plans
7.3 Financial influences on retirement decisions - Appendix A Model specification (PDF - 174 Kb)
- Appendix B Gender pay gap by occupation and industry (PDF - 141 Kb)
- References (PDF - 173 Kb)
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