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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822563
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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
Huck, Steffen; Seltzer, Andrew J.; Wallace, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822891
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871266
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371185
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323408
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Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter
de la Croix, David; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683650
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Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734419
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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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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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