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Early Retirement: Free Choice or Forced Decision

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - CESifo - 2005

Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement based on international microdata covering 19...

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The Economic Consequences of Ageing: The Case of Finland

Maisonneuve, Christine de la; André, Christophe; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

’espérance de vie permettrait de réduire les coûts des pensions et d’accroître l’emploi des travailleurs seniors, à condition d …

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Making the Labour Market Work Better in Poland

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

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Improving Employment Prospects in the Slovak Republic: Building on Past Reforms

Fuentes, Andrés - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum...

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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland

Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

of the system. Stricter criteria for entry into disability pensions should also be applied. The 2005 pension reform was a … une pension d’invalidité devraient être durcis. La réforme des pensions de 2005 était un pas dans la bonne direction, mais … d’autres ajustements devraient encore être introduits dans le système de pensions de vieillesse afin d’abaisser le coût …

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The Turkish Pension System: Further Reforms to Help Solve the Informality Problem

Brook, Anne-Marie; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

Recent social security reform has significantly improved the long-run sustainability of the pension system. However, the pension system continues to serve as an important barrier to a more rapid expansion of the formalsector economy in two ways. First, early-retirement incentives (including...

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Assessing the 2005 Czech Proposals for Pension Reform

Hemmings, Philip; Whitehouse, Edward R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

, early retirement incentives, diversification into private provision, simplicity and the pensions-earnings link. This Working …

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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

of tax breaks on pensions. This Working Paper relates to the 2010 OECD Economic Survey of Israel (www …

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Fairly Sharing the Social Impact of the Crisis in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Matsaganis, Manos; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has mitigated the burden sharing of fiscal adjustment, as the recession has deepened unemployment has risen, earnings have declined and social tensions have increased. Getting people...

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Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing

Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2007

We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...

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