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Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2016
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement … (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625
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Income support policies for part-time workers : a stepping-stone to regular jobs? ; an application to young Long-term unemployed women in Belgium
Cockx, Bart (contributor); Robin, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003457444
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506320
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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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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287319
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929632
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697080
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Part-time unemployment and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2011
-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011356
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2020
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404545