Female Labor Market Participation Across Cohorts: Evidence from the Netherlands

Abstract This study investigates female labor force participation in the Netherlands between 1985 and 2014 and proposes a new approach to address the age–period–cohort identification problem. The prime working age model assumes a constant effect of age on female labor force participation for women who are at least 45 years old but younger than 50. This model generates plausible predictions of the age-, period- and cohort profiles of female labor participation. Those predictions are very similar to the ones obtained by using the intrinsic estimator approach of Yang et al. (Sociol Methodol 34(1)... Mehr ...