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during economic recessions and as a means to circumvent employment protection legislation. …
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for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage … increase in life-cycle labor supply and consumption. …
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for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage … increase in life-cycle labor supply and consumption …
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Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and...
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We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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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 … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality …
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distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption … health and wealth are jointly determined under income and health risk that are related to disease outbreak risk. We calibrate … in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth …
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