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Too old to work, too young to retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
who are too old to work but too young to retireʺ. -- Aging ; employability ; plant closures ; matching … employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561657
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296219
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Closing routes to retirement : how do people respond?
Geyer, Johannes; Welteke, Clara - 2017
We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641381
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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Age and opportunities for promotion
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - 2013
Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223617
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Migration and the demographic shift
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463681
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Patterns of time use among older people
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062263
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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection
Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023
elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of … old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250292
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Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans
Almuhaisen, Abdulmohsen; Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; … - 2023
supply shocks in occupations that facilitate aging in community. …
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