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Abbring, Jaap H. - Tinbergen Instituut

We study a mixed hitting-time (MHT) model that specifies durations as the first time a Lévy process— a continuous-time process with stationary and independent increments— crosses a heterogeneous threshold. Such models are of substantial interest because they can be reduced from...

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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Lammers, Marloes - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the elderly to formally …

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Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Euwals, Rob; Vuuren, Daniel J. van; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded schemes. The starting dates of the transitional … the policy reform on early retirement behaviour. We use a large administrative dataset, the Dutch Income Panel 1989 …-2000, to estimate hazard rate models for early retirement. We conclude that the policy reform induced workers to postpone early …

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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market

Wit, Erik R. de; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Regional Science and Urban Economics', 2013, 43, 507-520.<P> In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models...</p>

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A Dynamic Model of Commutes

Rouwendal, Jan; Vlist, Arno van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper studies the interaction between job mobility and housing mobility by considering the duration of commutes. Conventional models assume that the employrnent location has priority over the residentiallocation and that the latter is adapted to the former. This implies that the duration of...

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The Unobserved Heterogeneity Distribution in Duration Analysis

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In a large class of hazard models with proportional unobserved heterogeneity, the distribution of the heterogeneity among survivors converges to a gamma distribution. This convergence is often rapid. We derive this result as a general result for exponential mixtures and explore its implications...

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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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