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Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - HAL - 2014
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatment effects. Yet their use for policy design is often limited by the difficulty in extrapolating on the basis of reduced-form estimates of policy effects. On the contrary, structural models allow...
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Disability and social security reforms: The French case
Behaghel, Luc; Blanchet, Didier; Debrand, Thierry; … - HAL - 2011
and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal … the situation that prevails in some other countries where normal ages are high, unemployment benefits low and early …
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Student loans: Liquidity constraint and higher education in South Africa
Gurgand, Marc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Mélonio, Thomas - HAL - 2011
Empirical evidence that access to higher education is constrained by credit availability is limited and usually indirect. This paper provides direct evidence by comparing university enrollment rates of South African potential students, depending on whether they get a loan or not to cover their...
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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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Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement : a double Regression Discontinuity Approach
Stancanelli, Elena; Soest, Arthur Van - HAL - 2012
The economic litterature on retirement argues that individuals in a couple tend to retire at a choice time because of externalities in leisure. Ealier studies dit not investigate the extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time together upon retiring. Exploiting the law on early...
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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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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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The Effect of the Hartz Reform on Unemployment Duration and Post-Unemployment Outcomes. A Difference-in-Differences Approach
Amable, Bruno; Françon, Baptiste - HAL - 2014
this measure: on job take-up rates, but also on post-unemployment outcomes, through various indicators of matching quality … show that the effects of this specific feature were rather scant. Regarding unemployment duration, only unemployed within a … used unemployment schemes as a bridge to early retirement. In addition, there is some evidence of detrimental effects on …
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Optimal Redistribution with Intensive and Extensive Labor Supply Margins: A Life-Cycle Perspective
Michau, Jean-Baptiste - HAL - 2011
While the participation decision is discrete in a static context, i.e. to work or not to work, such is not the case in a life-cycle context where workers choose the fraction of their lifetime that they spend working. In this paper, I therefore characterize the optimal redistribution policy in a...
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Ageing and retirement age. What can we learn from the Overlapping Generations Model ?
D'Autume, Antoine - HAL - 2003
In this paper, the two-period OLG model has been modified to distinguish the effects of individual ageing from changes in the birth rate. Optimal pension and retirement age policies have been characterized in a dynamic framework. We have considered a mixed pension scheme that is fully funded,...
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