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Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs : evidence from a German pension reform

Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...

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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure

Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2006 - Revised version

The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports … time-to-death is an endogenous determinant of HCE. Third, it investigates the contribution of population aging to the … not the cost of dying is accounted for, thus qualifying the "red herring" hypothesis. -- Health econometrics ; Aging …

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Rent-Sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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Long-term participation tax rates

Bartels, Charlotte - 2012

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work...

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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss

Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...

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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being

Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020

Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment shocks: employment rates fall and poverty...

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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data

Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...

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Inattention and switching costs as sources of inertia in medicare part D

Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, Joachim; … - 2019

Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and switching costs. We develop a panel data model with separate attention and choice stages, linked by heterogeneity in...

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Impact of retirement and re-employment on the life satisfaction of older adults in Korea

Kwak, Do Won; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2024

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