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Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples

Michaud, P.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by …

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Why Demotion of Older Workers is a No-Go Area for Managers

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Demotion – a reduction of an employee’s rank and salary - is often mentioned by managers and policy makers as a measure to increase the employability of older workers, but in practice demotion is rarely applied. This paper takes a fresh look at the question of demotion by first employing a...

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Seek and Ye shall Find : How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

van Ours, Jan; Hullegie, P.G.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job...

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Retaining through Training; Even for OlderWorkers

van Ours, Jan; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Dilemmas Of Downsizing During the Great Recession : Crisis Strategies of European Employers

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

threats by offering short-time work, and by early retirement packages to older workers, in conjunction with buy-outs. The … retirement and buy-outs when downsizing, followed by working time reductions. Wage reductions and administrative dismissal are …

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A Collective Retirement Model : Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Michaud, P.C.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

five waves of the Health and Retirement Study.We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform proposals …

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Health Cost Risk and Optimal Retirement Provision : A Simple Rule for Annuity Demand

Nijman, Theo; Werker, Bas J.M.; Peijnenburg, J.M.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

retirement, full annuitization is not optimal. In the other case of low health cost risk early in retirement, individuals should … cost risk early in retirement may resolve the annuity puzzle. Moreover, we explain the observed pattern of annuitization as … a function of initial wealth at retirement. For personal financial planning purposes, we develop a simple rule of thumb …

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Optimal Annuitization with Incomplete Annuity Markets and Background Risk During Retirement

Nijman, Theo; Werker, Bas J.M.; Peijnenburg, J.M.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

after retirement. This holds irrespective of whether real or only nominal annuities are available. Whenever liquidity is …

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Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply

Gielen, A. C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

full retirement. However, some over-employed women are observed to leave the labor market early due to hours constraints …

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Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe : What do Objective Health Measures Add to the Analysis?

Kalwij, A.S.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

.The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).We examine the value added of …

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