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Early retirement : free choice or forced decision

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2005

Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement based on international microdata covering 19...

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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration?: A regression discontinuity approach

Lalive, Rafael - 2006

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the evaluation, I use sharp discontinuities in...

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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age

Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013

This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...

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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the … for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …

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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and European care policies on the choice of care arrangement

Meng, Annika - 2010

Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...

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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure

Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2006 - Revised version

The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports … time-to-death is an endogenous determinant of HCE. Third, it investigates the contribution of population aging to the … not the cost of dying is accounted for, thus qualifying the "red herring" hypothesis. -- Health econometrics ; Aging …

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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Ries, Jean - 2004

years, depending on individual characteristics. We contrast three propensity score matching estimators of the impact of … benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude …

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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016

In diesem Papier wird der langfristige Einfluss von häuslicher Pflege auf das Arbeitsangebot von Frauen (bis zu acht …

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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities

Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022

We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...

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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurance more generous by changing,...

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