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Permanent wage cost subsidies for older workers : an effective tool for increasing working time and postponing early retirement?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart - 2015
In several OECD countries age-targeted wage subsidies have been introduced to increase the employment of older workers …, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects of a permanent wage cost subsidy in Belgium … on the employment rate, working time and hourly wage. We estimate these effects by integrating Inverse Probability …
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Health and aging before and after retirement
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere Männer und Frauen aus 10 europäischen Ländern....
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The politics of aging and retirement : evidence from Swiss referenda
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2018
Aging creates financial troubles for PAYG pension systems, since the share of retirees to workers increases. An often advocated policy response is to increase retirement age. Ironically, however, the political support for this policy may actually be hindered by population aging. Using Swiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882293
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Institutional reforms and an incredible rise in old age employment
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2018
behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
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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Are older workers willing to learn?
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county-level administrative data on voluntary education activities,...
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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
(unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as … worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we … identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …
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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
, and that the employment of young (30-years old) male workers increases. The distribution of wages by age is instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406562
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Social security, retirement age and optimal income taxations
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2002
It is often argued that implicit taxation on continued activity of elderly workers is responsible for the widely observed trend towards early retirement. In a world of laissez-faire or of first-best efficiency, there would be no such implicit taxation. The point of this paper is that when...
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Do firms hire more older workers? : evidence from Germany
Busch, Fabian; Fenge, Robert; Ochsen, Carsten - 2021
generally rise with an ageing labour force. Also, part-time employment induces firms to engage more older workers but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599161