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Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

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Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of...

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Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980–2009

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …

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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … collective bargaining coordination, the role of institutions is also more muted than suggested in the literature. …

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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling for a number of observable characteristics, we show...

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What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?

Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...

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Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average …

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Older Women: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...

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Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...

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Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James; Zhang, Dandan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in...

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