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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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part-time and full-time employment after 2002 essentially resulted from changes in registered and unregistered unemployment … unemployment reforms in explaining changes in unemployment, non-participation and part-time employment. …
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The gender pay gap and the gender gap in employment remains persistent in Europe despite the basic assertion of gender … equality under EU law. We assess the factors that influence the gender pay gap and gender employment gap across European … gender employment gap. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita does not affect these gaps and the Global Financial Crisis …
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In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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generally rise with an ageing labour force. Also, part-time employment induces firms to engage more older workers but this …
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This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large concentration of job exits at specific ages. In Germany, almost 30% of workers retire precisely in the month when they reach one of three statutory retirement ages, although there is...
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Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked contrast to the situation in Anglo-Saxon countries. It has advantages if labour markets are strong, e.g., following a quick recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as...
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ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
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Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly … by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …
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whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …
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