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In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents’ need to work. Taking the...
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Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …
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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The … illiquid capital, complementing public retirement provision, reducing the interest-rate sensitivity of pensions and smoothing …
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percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 …This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 …
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We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … any adverse effect early retirement onmortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher incidence of …
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When entering retirement most people face the decision whether they would like their defined contribution account …
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combine high-quality survey and administrative data. Our results suggest that partial or gradual retirement options offered by …
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What drives the labor supply decisions of the elderly in developing countries? To what extent do elderly parents use coresidence with or financial transfers from children to reduce their own labor supply in old age? These questions are increasingly important because populations in many...
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The high labor supply elasticity in an indivisible-labor model with employment lotteries emerges also without lotteries … inducing a worker to retire at an official retirement age. …
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