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Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement

Maestas, Nicole - RAND - 2007

This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as Òunretirement,Ó in which retirees appear to … reverse their retirement decisions and return to work. Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the author shows … that nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial retirement or unretirement …

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Business Cycle Comovement and Labor Market Institutions: An Empirical Investigation

Fonseca, Raquel; Patureau, Lise; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - RAND - 2007

This paper examines the impact of labor market institutions (LMI) on business cycle (BC) synchronization. The authors first develop a two-country right-to-manage model of wage bargaining. They find that, following a symmetric demand change, cross-country differences in LMI generate divergent...

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Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Hurd, Michael D.; Smith, James P.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2011

of life may represent a significant motive for saving. The authors use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement …

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Labor Market and Immigration Behavior of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexicans

Aguila, Emma; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2009

This study analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to … retirement in the United States and other developed countries, Mexican non-migrants and return migrants were responsive to … institutional incentives. Both groups were more likely to retire if they had publicly provided health insurance and pensions. In …

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Increases in Wealth Among the Elderly in the Early 1990s: How Much is Due to Survey Design?

Rohwedder, Susann; Hurd, Michael D.; Haider, Steven J. - RAND - 2004

The Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study shows a large increase in reported total wealth between 1993 and 1995. Such an increase is not found in other US household surveys around that period. This paper examines one source of this difference. The authors find that in...

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Persistent, Consistent, and Widespread?: Another Look at Recent Trends in Old-Age Disability.

Schoeni, Robert F.; Freedman, Vicki A.; Wallace, Robert B. - RAND - 2000

This study provides new evidence on trends in disability among the elderly from 1982 to 1996. Logistics analysis is used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample includes 124,949 people ages 70 and older in the 1982-1996...

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Inter-vivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Hurd, Michael D.; Smith, James P.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2007

of life may represent a significant motive for saving. The authors use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526957

Using International Micro Data to Learn about Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance

Hurd, Michael D.; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Rohwedder, Susann - RAND - 2008

countries. Finally, they study the relationship between wealth accumulation and the generosity of public pensions in more detail …

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Time-Use in the Older Population: Variation by Socio-economic Status and Health

Hurd, Michael D.; Rohwedder, Susann - RAND - 2007

This paper provides evidence on time-use from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a large general-purpose survey … status and retirement planning. In 2001, a random sub-sample of 5,000 respondents in 5,000 households was sent a supplemental …

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Expected Bequests and Their Distribution

Hurd, Michael D.; Smith, James P. - RAND - 2003

Based on a sample of actual bequests that is population-representative and on the subjective probability of bequests, the authors estimate the distribution of bequests that the older population will make. The authors find that the distribution is highly skewed, so that the typical baby-boom...

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