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standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
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In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...
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In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems … during the last two decades, by discouraging early retirement and increasing incentives to work for older workers. Senior … reaction to retirement incentives set by governments. This paper highlights how disutility to work can influence the …
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Colombia is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America. The high level of informality in the labour market and many characteristics of the pension system leave many elderly in poverty. Only formal-sector employees earning more than the relatively high minimum wage are covered. Linking...
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such changes. Retirement has increasingly become a decision made jointly by a couple rather than individually by one … retirement decision despite age differences between partners. This joint determination of retirement has important implications …
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We examine ill-health retirement of police officers in England and Wales between 2002-3 and 2009-10. Differences in ill …-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities- impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially among …
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We analyze the relationship between the age profile of retirement within an immigrant population and aggregate return … probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. This implies that different immigrant populations will have different … retirement profiles, not only because individual retirement behavior differs, but also because the propensity for return …
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Retirement Study (HRS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS), I estimate a dynamic model of occupational choice and retirement …
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Partial and reverse retirement are two key behaviors characterizing labor force dynamics for individuals at older ages …-recovery process can account for such reverse retirement behavior that cannot be generated by health and wealth shocks alone … and timing of re-entry and characteristics of those who re-enter using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) panel data. We …
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