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Closing routes to retirement : how do people respond?
Geyer, Johannes; Welteke, Clara - 2017
this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the … reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not find evidence for active …
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The interaction between retirement and job search : a global approach to older workers employment
Hairault, Jean-Olivier (contributor);  … - 2006
unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283431
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The effect of health on income : quasi-experimental evidence from commuting accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310038
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Equilibrium unemployment and retirement
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, … - 2012
propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536410
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How do unemployed workers behave prior to retirement? : a multi-state multiple-spell approach
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa; Góra, Marek - 2017
out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the … unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born between 1940 and 1965 who were registered with any of the public … time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636685
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The impact of a phased retirement program : a case study
Lachowska, Marta; Sundén, Annika E.; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2009
Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time either in the same job or by changing jobs, and stay on in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872715
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How sensitive are retirement decisions to financial incentives : a stated preference analysis
Voòková, Hana; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
We study effects of financial incentives on the retirement age using stated preference data. Dutch survey respondents were given hypothetical retirement scenarios describing age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and replacement rate(s). A structural model is estimated in which utility is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904980
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The time and timing costs of market work, and their implications for retirement
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006
Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using the American Time Use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373728
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Older men : pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of 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 effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929123