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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System : Evidence from German Notch Cohorts
Fischer, Bjoern; Geyer, Johannes Micha; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health … lifecycle work disability risk, (2) strong and positive income and health gradients in private ODI take-up, and (3) inversely … related income and health gradients in the lifecycle work disability risk. Simulations illustrate that policy reforms to lower …
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems … no evidence of significant effects on mental health and work and life satisfaction …
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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …
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Trends in Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In Belgium, a series of social security reforms have been implemented over the years with the overarching goal of increasing the labor force participation through better work incentives. Using individual-level administrative data, the paper studies the impact of those incentive-based reforms on...
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan
Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study examines how elderly employment is associated with social security programs and how it responds to recent reforms in Japan. To this end, we employed a rich and longitudinal dataset of middle-aged and older individuals collected between 2005 and 2018. By incorporating various factors...
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Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Goda, Gopi Shah; Jackson, Emilie; Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large and immediate drop in employment among US workers, along with major expansions of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to study employment among older adults and their...
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. The impact on the earnings-weighted participation rate is smaller at about 1.4 percentage points. This drag on …
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery
Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...
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Research findings in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2010
effects of demography, health, and disability insurance / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Comment / Robert J. Willis -- Labor market … and Jonathan Skinner -- Economic circumstances and health -- Aging and death under a dollar a day / Abhijit V. Banerjee … health and circumstance on health in old age / Anne Case -- Comment / James P. Smith -- Income, aging, health and well …
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