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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the relative risk aversion, the production function, and the degree of …
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This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in … work schedules and does this result in work time synchronization?; (2) which partners synchronize more work hours?; and (3 …. Finally, partners coordinate their work schedules in order to have more joint leisure time, which is evidence for togetherness …
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This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time …, but only for childless couples. Work timing also in uences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the …
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rnarket status is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the 'Health and Retirement Nexus …
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This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …
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This paper focuses on the relation between worker's productivity and retirement decision. Assuming that productivity … worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level … of income and benefits is set to maximize lifetime utility. In such framework we find the retirement threshold of …
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increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different …
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derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …
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