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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...

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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the … for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …

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The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor; Orszag, J. Michael - 2003

Despite substantial increases in longevity, the age of retirement in the industrialized countries has steadily fallen throughout most of the 20th century. In France, for instance, the employment-population ratio of 55-64 year-old males fell from 74% in 1970 to 38.5% in 2000. In most other OECD...

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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear?s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely impact the labor market. We extend his sample...

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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality

Koeniger, Winfried; Leonardi, Marco; Nunziata, Luca - 2004

In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across countries. We derive a simple log-linear equation of the wage differential as a function of the...

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Madsen, Jakob B.; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the rent from unionisation. The opposite result applies for a utilitarian union. Using manufacturing and...

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Identifying sorting: in theory

Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 2009

We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …

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Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply : An Experimental Investigation

Niederle, Muriel - 2010

, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a …

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Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in Jolts

Davis, Steven J. - 2010

We develop and implement a method to improve estimates of worker flows and job openings based on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Our method involves reweighting the cross-sectional density of employment growth rates in JOLTS to match the corresponding density in the...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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