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Women wanted ! Or: how women should save the Dutch economy

Women wanted ! Or: how women should save the Dutch economy. Swedish-Dutch Conference on Gender Equality and Labour Participation The Hague, 21st November 2008. Joop Schippers j.schippers@econ.uu.nl, j.j.schippers@uvt.nl. Three major demographic developments. Dejuvenation (ontgroening)

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Women wanted ! Or: how women should save the Dutch economy

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  1. Women wanted! Or: how women should savethe Dutch economy Swedish-Dutch Conference on Gender Equality and Labour Participation The Hague, 21st November 2008 Joop Schippers j.schippers@econ.uu.nl, j.j.schippers@uvt.nl

  2. Three major demographic developments • Dejuvenation (ontgroening) • Ageing: growing share of 50/60+ • ‘Double ageing’: growing share of 80/85+

  3. Consequences for the labour market • From a buyers’ market (2nd half of the 20th century; large impact of female participation) ..... • .... To a sellers’ market (1st half of the 21st century), despite current economic problems

  4. Labour force • Changing composition (older, more women and more immigrant workers) • Changing ambitions (higher education/individualization): people want more from their job. They do no live to work, but work to live

  5. Labour market forecasts Till 2020: - net increase in labour demand: > 600,000 workers, in particular in care (500,000) - next to that replacement demand: 2.6 million, in particular in education (260,000 to 420.000)

  6. Development of labour supply Bron: Centraal Planbureau, 2005

  7. Female labour participation by cohort, 1985-2006

  8. Major educational differences

  9. Femal work hours by cohort, 1985-2006

  10. Small part-time jobs • Primarily, though not exclusively a matter of low educated. Idem reduction of work hours at the start of family formation • Taskforce DeeltijdPlus: focus on culture • Cie Bakker (and earlier VCE): more hours must pay => too much financial disincentives

  11. Marginal tax rate for part-time workers

  12. What is lacking in the Netherlands? • Interesting career opportunities for female and male part-time workers (= also a matter of making education pay) • General awareness that care is important. Yet, spending time/money on care - and education - is a form of investment Both issues are important to ‘seduce’ men

  13. To conclude • Higher female labour market participation in the Netherlands is a matter of culture, but also of making work pay • Proposals of the Committee for the promotion of labour market participation may help, but often lack the tailor-made approach to include women

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