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Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We develop a simple model that describes individuals’ self-assessments oftheir abilities. We assume that individuals learn about their abilities from appraisalsof others and experience. Our model predicts that if communicationis imperfect, then (i) appraisals of others tend to be too positive,...

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Health, Financial Incentives and Retirement in Spain

Erdogan-Ciftci, Esen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …

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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality - Evidence from Targeted Incentives to retire early

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

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Health and Work of the Elderly

Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Retirement Nexus' requires an integrated model for work decisions, health production and health reporting mechanisms. We …

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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

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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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners

Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

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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The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

increasingly important factor in the retirement decision. Therefore it is relevant to know whether workers with a different …

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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

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The Importance of Financial Incentives on Retirement Choices

Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

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