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The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. Focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...
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of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …
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"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma … and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … incentives and sending a message about society's values, and hence about the norms that different behaviors are likely to …
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the agent’s motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides … incentives as well as the puzzling incompleteness of many economic contracts. …
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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...
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In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is … externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify the causal …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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