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state pension age was increased to 61 and their probability of unemployment increased by 1.3 percentage points. The …
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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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unemployment insurance program. Specifically, the unemployment rate increased by 10 percentage points among men and 11 percentage …
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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 participation rates to the labor force not only differ...
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...
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points among affected women. The reforms had large spillover effects on the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by 12.5 percentage points among men and by 11 … healthy workers either continued to retire early via disability benefits or bridged the gap to the ERA via unemployment …
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This paper examines the impact of old-age pension systems and other social transfer programmes on the retirement decision of older males in OECD countries. For each of the 55-59, 60-64 and 65+ age groups, a new panel dataset (22 OECD countries over 1969-1999 or shorter periods in some cases) of...
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