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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment … of workforce in 34 industrial sectors drawn from the decennial censuses from 1951 to 1981. It finds that early retirement … is influenced primarily by economic factors, although health becomes important in 1981. By showing that retirement and …
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elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to …
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We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based …
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Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
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lengthen retirement age and/or cut pension benefits. After controlling for individual features of the respondent, we find that …
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Using a calibrated OLG model with several sources of uncertainty we find that the impact of ageing and of reform of social security upon the demand for housing and the level of owner occupation is substantial. The overall structure of household asset holdings – in particular the split between...
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We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth … pension benefits to pre-retirement income. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large random sample of the Italian … different consequences for different cohorts and employment groups, providing a quasi-experimental framework to study the effect …
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