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A Cohort-Based Analysis of Labor Force Participation for Advanced Economies
Mr. Francesco Grigoli, Zsoka Koczan, and Petia Topalova
Advanced economies are in the midst of a major demographic transition, with the number of elderly rising precipitously relative to the working-age population. Yet, despite the acceleration in demographic shifts in the past decade, advanced economies experienced markedly different trajectories in overall labor force participation rates and the workforce attachment of men and women. Using a cohort-based model of labor force participation for 17 advanced economies estimated over the 1985-2016 period, we document a significant role of common patterns of participation over the life cycle and shifts in these patterns across generations for aggregate labor supply, especially in the case of women. The entry of new cohorts of women led to upward shifts in the age participation prole, boosting aggregate participation rates. However, this process plateaued in most advanced economies, with signs of reversal in some. Using the model's results to forecast future participation trends, we project sizable declines in aggregate participation rates over the next three decades due to the aging of the population. Illustrative simulations show that implementing policies encouraging labor supply can help attenuate but may not fully offset demographic pressures.
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WP; Advanced economies; age; cohort; labor force participation; population aging; simulations; trend LFPR; cohort effect; aggregate labor force participation rate; detrended LFPR; birth cohort; gender-specific LFPR; Aging; Women; Labor force; Europe; Global; participation trend; advanced economy; trend projection
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A Cohort-Based Analysis of Labor Force Participation for Advanced Economies*

an interaction term. The role of aging can be approximated by the “between changes”, which is the imputed change in participation if participation rates for each age group remained at their 2008 levels. Formally, the gender-specific LFPR can be rewritten as the sum of the participation rates of workers of the same gender in different age groups, weighted by their share in the male or female population: l i , t a = Σ g = 1 n l i , t a , g p o p i , t a , g p o p i , t ( 1 ) where i denotes the country, t is the time index, a is the gender, g is