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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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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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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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Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden …
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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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Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years … well-informed about pensions. However, there are many reasons to believe that individuals may not be well-informed due to … the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a relationship. We examine the effects of the … pension laws of 1907 and 1912, which granted old-age pensions to Union Army veterans. Life expectancy for veterans, who … received such a pension, increased by 0.5 years and 2.7 years, respectively. The effect of veteran pensions on longevity was …
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eligibility to pensions indeed reduce the responsiveness of women to changes in pension rules. This explains why, contrary to a …
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effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
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receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
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