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Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of … Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791518
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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Maldonado, Dario; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. Information structure and labor supply decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167198
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Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden
Flood, Lennart; Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural, static model of household labor supply and multiple welfare program participation. Given the complicated nature of both the income tax schedule and the benefit rules for different welfare programs, we use unique access to a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762186
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884100
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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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884323
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884370
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Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274364
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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279299
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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 … age of retirement. Individual panel data for the last 25 years are used in estimations of the impact from individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279345
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Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where … has been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. We find significant impact on work after retirement from … education, gender, home ownership, aggregate unemployment at the time of retirement, age and education. Being married has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279364