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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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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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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

is likely to be caused by a wider variety of sources, including better health, less pervasive defined benefit pensions … and in general less generous pensions. …

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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement

Hutchens, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...

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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis

Blau, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …

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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective

Giles, John T.; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …

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Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age

Behaghel, Luc; Blau, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts born from 1938 to 1943. We find strong evidence that the...

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