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We use nationally representative panel data from Australia to consider the impact of retirement on individual locus of … causality via cohort-specific eligibility age for the Australian Age Pension. We show that retirement leads to increased … effects of retirement on health and subjective well-being, respectively. The impact of retirement on control beliefs varies …
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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data...
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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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disparate effects by age. We find that those approaching retirement age (aged 55 to 64) experienced reduced life … approaching retirement age, but not of younger working-age adults, is closely correlated with wealth indices (e.g., the Case …
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Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … vary in the same way, i.e. improve unexpectedly after retirement for men. These findings suggest that, at least in the case …
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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
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retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …
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concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … satisfaction indeed is decreasing before retirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after …
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For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...
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