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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment

Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020

This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge...

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

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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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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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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Björn - 2023

We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...

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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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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay

Fella, Giulio - 2012

This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but …

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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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