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This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for … their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …
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retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …
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, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …
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effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …
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This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying … mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural … approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1 …
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
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This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...
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-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high … document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in …
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Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial...
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Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in … particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. To measure differences in labor market reactions of … increased the early retirement age for women from 60 to 63 years. Based on a large administrative dataset, we use a regression …
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