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Differentiating retirement age to compensate for health differences
Vandenberghe, Vincent - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34
Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most observers agree that the …
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Economics of healthy aging in India : a multidimensional perspective
Malik, Manzoor Ahmad; Singh, S. P.; Pattanaik, Falguni - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It …% of its population accounting for aging. Based on the multidimensional aging index (AI) using the latest longitudinal … survey data of older adults in India, we examined the possible challenges of the economics of aging in India while examining …
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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients : lessons from a randomised field experiment
Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part or all of their benefits if earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for the low number of beneficiaries who expand work and reduce benefit receipt. We analyse a conditional cash...
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Wage subsidies targeted to jobseekers with disabilities : subsequent employment and disability retirement
Angelov, Nikolay; Eliason, Marcus - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 12, pp. 1-37
In many countries, a non-negligible percentage of the working-age population has impairments that also entail reduced work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing the labour market inclusion among people with...
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme
Bollens, Joost; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 15, pp. 1-24
The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching …
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Do wage subsidies for disabled workers reduce their non-employment? : evidence from the Danish Flexjob scheme
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Larsen, Mona; Thomsen, Lars - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-26
We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform of the Danish Flexjob scheme targeted towards employing the long-term (partially) disabled. Firms received a salary reimbursement for all employees granted a Flexjob. We examine...
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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US : lessons from other OECD nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
Unsustainable growth in program costs and beneficiaries, together with a growing recognition that even people with severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to...
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Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement : Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany
Juerges, Hendrik - 2014
About 20% of German workers retire on disability pensions. Disability pensions provide fairly generous benefits for those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to...
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Does the early release of retirement savings prolong labor market participation for workers approaching retirement? : evidence from Australia's "Transition to Retirement Income Str...
Carter, Andrew - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-36
Australia's "Transition to Retirement Income Streams" (TRIS) program aims to prolong labor force participation for older workers (aged 55-65 years) by offering early access to a worker's compulsory retirement savings (superannuation). Using a difference-in-differences design, our results suggest...
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