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The many facets of retirement have been studied widely by economists. However, the effect of retirement on marriage … stability has been ignored in the literature. Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual time allocation that may … transition into retirement. We study the effect of retirement on marriage outburst rates using observations on over 200 000 …
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retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …
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Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees....
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After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...
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. -- Older workers ; labor market institutions ; employment ; employment protection ; welfare state ; pensions ; retirement …
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"The number of Americans raising grandchildren has been rising steadily. In this paper, we add to what is known about the implications of this trend by focusing on the economic effects of raising a grandchild. We make use of a unique data set compiled from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics...
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of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time – between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women – especially those … in lower-wage jobs – often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …
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retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men – especially those in lower-wage jobs – seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …
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We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement … expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit …
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Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern …. A richer version of the model is calibrated to data from the Health and Retirement Study. The median change in …
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