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Firms and Early Retirement : Offers that One Does Not Refuse
Bellmann, Lutz - 2007
According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result of maximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit-maximizing behaviour. Firms enter into contracts with their employees that include clauses about...
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
Bonsang, Eric - 2011
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of...
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees
Huber, Martin - 2013
In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Andersen, Asbjørn - 2019
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions. Local labor demand is identified by means of a...
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
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Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023
search and matching model with heterogeneous skills and contract durations rationalizes our main findings …
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