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The curved relationship between subjective well-being and age

Clark, Andrew E.; Oswald, Andrew J. - HAL - 2006

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many...

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Health expenditure growth : reassessing the threat of ageing

Dormont, Brigitte; Grignon, Michel; Huber, Hélène - HAL - 2006

due to ageing is relatively small. The impact of changes in practices is 3.8 times larger. Furthermore, changes in … morbidity induce savings which more than offset the increase in spending due to population ageing. …

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Heterogeneity matters: labour productivity differentiated by age and skills

Roger, Muriel; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2009

This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...

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Spouses' Retirement and Hours of Work Outcomes : Evidence from Twofold Regression Discontinuity

Stancanelli, Elena - HAL - 2012

Earlier studies conclude that spouses time their retirement closely together. Here, we exploit early retirement age legislation to identify the effect of own and spousal retirement on spouses' hours of work. The sample for the analysis includes over 85000 French couples. We conclude that hours...

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The social economy of ageing : Job quality and pathways beyond the labour market in Europe

Pollak, Catherine; Sirven, Nicolas - HAL - 2011

This article analyses the effect of job quality on pathways to productive activities of older workers in Europe. Using comparative panel data from SHARE, we analyse the medium term effects of working conditions of workers aged 50-64 on three participation outcomes (staying in employment,...

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Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data

Moreau, Nicolas; Stancanelli, Elena - HAL - 2013

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...

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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under which populations with distinct initial age structures exhibit the same asymptotic age structure, this paper re-examines the issues of age structure stabilization and...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally … migration's relative deprivation motive. We also show that migrants are positively affected by the performances of the German … regions in which they live (a 'signal effect'). We demonstrate that both effects decline with years-since-migration and with …

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A short note on the nowcasting and the forecasting of Euro-area GDP using non-parametric techniques

Guegan, Dominique; Rakotomarolahy, Patrick - HAL - 2010

Domestic Product (GDP) modelling in order to improve the forecasting accuracy. Our approach is based on multivariate k … compute the quarter GDP on the Euro-zone, comparing our approach, with GDP obtained when we estimate the monthly indicators …

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A Short Note on the Nowcasting and the Forecasting of Euro-area GDP Using Non-Parametric Techniques

Guegan, Dominique; Rakotomarolahy, Patrick - HAL - 2010

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