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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment … States and France. It discusses how the welfare state can be reformed in order to improve outcomes for older workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506842
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Retaining through training; even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921779
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Does Information Increase Political Support for Pension Reform?
Boeri, Tito; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
lengthen retirement age and/or cut pension benefits. After controlling for individual features of the respondent, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662128
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The Impact of Changing Demographics and Pensions on The Demand for Housing and Financial Assets
Cerny, Ales; Miles, David K; Schmidt, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Using a calibrated OLG model with several sources of uncertainty we find that the impact of ageing and of reform of social security upon the demand for housing and the level of owner occupation is substantial. The overall structure of household asset holdings – in particular the split between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662297
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Retirement Expectations, Pension Reforms and Their Effect on Private Wealth Accumulation
Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth … pension benefits to pre-retirement income. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large random sample of the Italian … of social security arrangements on expectations of retirement outcomes and household saving decisions. Our main findings …
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The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms
Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973973
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Population, Pensions and Endogenous Economic Growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment
Bütler, Monika; Maréchal, Michel André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504768
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Frías, Judith A; Kumler, Todd; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666455