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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers

Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022

-employee data containing information on bankruptcy dates and individual-level wealth, income, pensions and social security benefits … findings are particularly policy relevant as tightening of age-limits for old-age pensions is on the agenda in several OECD …

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Life expectancy and claiming behavior in a flexible pension system

Fredriksen, Dennis; Brinch, Christian N.; Vestad, Ola L. - 2017

We study the relationship between early claiming of pensions and incentives in the highly flexible Norwegian public … modest. Based on analyses exploiting only variation in expected pensions generated by variation in parental longevities and … only claiming of pensions not in conjunction with retirement, we conclude that part of the selection is active: Some …

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Effects of demographic development, labour supply and pension reforms on the future pension burden

Fredriksen, Dennis; Stølen, Nils Martin - 2005

A much higher old-age dependency ratio together with more generous pension benefits will lead to a substantial increase in the future pension burden in Norway. The challenges of financing the increasing pension expenditures depend on the development in demographic characteristics like fertility,...

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Consumption smoothing at retirement: Average and quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design

Burkhard, Daniel - 2015

Abstract Standard economic models predict that individuals smooth consumption over the life cycle. In contrast, there exists controversial empirical evidence showing that consumption declines at retirement. This paper investigates whether there is evidence for this so-called Retirement...

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Work less but stay longer: Mature worker response to a flexibility reform

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Piggott, John; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020

Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the eligibility age of retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the...

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The effect of benefits on disability uptake

Brinch, Christian N. - 2009

I study the effects of the level of disability benefits on disability uptake. Estimation of such effects is difficult because individual levels of disability pension benefits are closely related to individual characteristics that may also affect disability uptake through other mechanisms. I...

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Pension Reform in Norway. Microsimulating effects on government expenditures, labour supply incentives and benefit distribution

Stensnes, Kyrre; Stølen, Nils Martin - 2007

A much higher old-age dependency ratio, together with more generous pension benefits, will lead to a substantial increase in the future public pension expenditures burden in Norway. A pension reform implemented from 2010 will imply a shift to a quasi-actuarial system, seeking to neutralise the...

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Economic Development, Structural Change and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Reexamination of the Feminization U Hypothesis

Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

A large literature claims that female labor force participation (FLFP) follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with education and fertility dynamics. We show that...

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Does more involved fathering imply a double burden for fathers in Norway?

Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - 2013

While long total work hours (paid plus unpaid work) have usually been framed as a problem for employed women, researchers now ask whether more involved fathering practices imply a double burden for men, too. Based on the Norwegian Time Use Survey 2010, and using three different measures of total...

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Discouraged worker effects and barriers against employment for immigrant and non-immigrant women

Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2016

A phenomenon observed in many labor markets is that the supply of labor appears to depend on business cycles. In other words, workers who are searching for work become "discouraged" under unfavorable business cycle conditions because they believe that their chances of finding an acceptable job...

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