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Globalization and culture shaping the gender gap: A comparative analysis of urban Latin America and East Asia (1970 - 2000)

Camps, Enriqueta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

In this paper we present: 1. The available data on comparative gender inequality at the macroeconomic level and 2. Gender inequality measures at the microeconomic and case study level. We see that market openness has a significant effect on the narrowing of the human capital gender gap....

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Globalization and wage inequality in South and East Asia, and Latin America: A gender approach

Camps, Enriqueta; Camou, Maria; Maubrigades, Silvana; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

In this paper we analyse the reasons behind the evolution of the gender gap and wage inequality in South and East Asian and Latin American countries. Health human capital improvements, the exposure to free market openness and equal treatment enforcement laws seem to be the main exogenous...

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The effects of employment uncertainty and wealth shocks on the labor supply and claiming behavior of older American workers

Benítez-Silva, Hugo; García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

retirement and claiming decisions in terms of the employment, wage, health, and mortality uncertainty faced by individuals. Our … Early Retirement Age, while still explaining the increased claiming hazard at the Normal Retirement Age. We also discuss … remained very high in the last years even as the early retirement penalties have increased substantially compared with previous …

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Retirement incentives, individual heterogeneity and labour transitions of employed and unemployed workers

García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

In this paper we analyze the sensitivity of the labour market decisions of workers close to retirement with respect to … incentives on retirement in two ways. First, by modeling the transitions between employment, unemployment and retirement in a … simultaneous manner, paying special attention to the transition from unemployment to retirement (which is particularly important in …

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Reforming the U.S. Social Security system accounting for employment uncertainty

Benítez-Silva, Hugo; García-Pérez, José Ignacio; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014

retirement decisions. In this context, we explicitly consider the participation decision of older individuals along with their … decision to claim Social Security retirement benefits, using a sequential decision structure. We have numerically solved and … exactly at the Early Retirement Age. The model is also able to replicate the declining labor force participation at older ages …

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Gerontocracy, retirement, and social security

Mulligan, Casey B.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

programs with retirement incentives are larger and that the old are more "single-minded" in their politics, implications which … show that the forced savings programs intended to "reform" the social security system may increase the amount of …

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An evaluation of the life-cycle effects of minimum pensions on retirement behavior

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Sánchez, Alfonso R. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

In this paper we explore the effects of the minimum pension program on welfare and retirement in Spain. This is done … by the minimum pension in aggregate retirement patterns. The impact is substantial: there is threefold increase in … retirement at 60 (the age of first entitlement) with respect to the economy without minimum pensions, and total early retirement …

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Assessing the wellbeing of the Spanish elderly

Boldrin, Michele; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

In this paper we use a variety of data sources, both micro and macro, time series, cross section, and panel data to provide an empirical evaluation of the current level of economic wellbeing of the Spanish elderly, and of its determinants. We focus, in particular on the role played by the...

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Delaying the normal and early retirement ages in Spain: behavioural and welfare consequences for employed and unemployed workers

Sánchez, Alfonso R.; García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014

In this paper, we explore the links between pension reform, early retirement, and the use of unemployment as an … alternative pathway to retirement. We use a dynamic rational expectations model to analyze the search and retirement behaviour of … employed and unemployed workers aged 50 or over. The model is calibrated to reproduce the main reemployment and retirement …

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Evaluating Spanish pension expenditure under alternativa reform scenario

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Boldrin, Michele - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

In this paper we evaluate the quantitative impact that a number of alternative reform scenarios may have on the total expenditure for public pensions in Spain. Our quantitative findings can be summarized in two sentences. For all the reforms considered, the financial impact of the mechanical...

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