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This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …
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for consumption and the hours of time supplied to the labour market, they also choose their schooling level and retirement …
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We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents’ labour supply and retirement decisions and …
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address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines …
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retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …
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How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …
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mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time- and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …
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choice to a work-retirement decision model and show that the optimal provision of choice is positively related to the degree …
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While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
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