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Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to...

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the census PUMS files: Evidence and implications

Trent Alexander, J.; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples (PUMS files) of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...

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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation

Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social … shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or increasing longevity, and the type of unfunded social security … provides a refinement to common policy recommendations that favor eliminating mandatory early retirement regulations in aging …

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Aging, Taxes and Pensions in Switzerland

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2016

The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...

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Aging and Health Care Expenditures: A Non-Parametric Approach

Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020

One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the … expenditures of the high age classes and thus overstates the increase of future HCE due to aging. Secondly, we show that the non … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …

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Age-Specific Entrepreneurship and PAYG Public Pensions in Germany

Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - 2020

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...

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Health Improvements Impact Income Inequality

Kotschy, Rainer Franz - 2021

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the sharp decline in cardiovascular disease mortality...

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Population Aging, Retirement, and Aggregate Productivity

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2023

automation potential is low. Economic aging also impedes the creation of innovation at the technological frontier. …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Can Investments in Emerging Markets Help to Solve the Aging Problem?

Holzmann, Robert - 2000

Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging …

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