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Designing disability insurance reforms: tightening eligibility rules or reducing benefits?
Haller, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2020
We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...
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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
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Labour supply effects of a subsidised old-age part-time scheme in Austria
Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching … negative. -- Evaluation of labour market programmes ; labour supply of the elderly ; nearest neighbour matching …
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The health-consumption effects of increasing retirement age late in the game
Caroli, Eve; Pollak, Catherine; Roger, Muriel - 2023
Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform...
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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions....
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Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna - 2017
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 for people born in 1950 or later. Our regression discontinuity estimates...
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...
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How effective are matching schemes in enticing low-income earners to save more for retirement? : evidence from a national scheme
Chan, Marc K.; Polidano, Cain; Vu, Ha; Wilkins, Roger; … - 2020
introduce targeted matching schemes. In this study, we examine the effects of a simple and generous Australian scheme using … proportion who contribute and bunching at the eligible maximum, but lower average contributions because the matching payment … highlight the difficulties of targeting matching schemes and question the merits of simplifying them. …
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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The effect of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment insurance receipt : new evidence from a regression kink design in Missouri, 2003-2013
Card, David E.; Johnston, Andrew; Leung, Pauline; Mas, … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...
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