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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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Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …

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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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Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...

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‘Voluntary’ and ‘Involuntary’ Early Retirement: An International Analysis

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Recent literature makes a distinction between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' early retirement, where 'involuntary' early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference for leisure relative to work. This paper analyzes 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' early retirement...

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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...

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From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the …

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Early Retirement and Financial Incentives: Differences Between High and Low Wage Earners

Euwals, Rob; Trevisan, Elisabetta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners. Using a stylized life-cycle model, we derive hypotheses on the behaviour of the two types. We use administrative data and employ a linear random effects model to test the...

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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members’ attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the...

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