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The caregiving responsibilities of retirees : what are they and how do they affect retirees' well-being?

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Oumtrakool, Eakamon - 2015

Using data from the 2010 and 2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and the associated Well-being Modules, this paper examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. Different caregiving activities are examined, including caring for household children, caring for...

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The impact of social security on pension claiming and retirement: active vs. passive decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Magesan, Arvind; Staubli, Stefan - 2020

additional structure point identifies the fraction at 67%. An original survey of Swiss pensioners reveals that reference …

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Live longer and healthier : impact of pension income for low-income retirees

Malavasi, Chiara; Ye, Han - 2024

German program subsidizing the pensions of low-wage workers. Using novel administrative data, we find that eligibility leads …

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Household consumption at retirement : a regression discontinuity study on French data

Moreau, Nicolas; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2013

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...

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Pension incomes in the European Union : policy reform strategies in comparative perspective

Mantovani, Daniela; Papadopoulos, Fotis; Sutherland, Holly - 2005

This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a set of common illustrative reforms for four countries selected on the basis of their diverse...

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Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion : evidence from community-living older adults in China

Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Chen, Xi; Tang, Gaojie - 2019

Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...

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Early retirement and post retirement health

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov; Josephson, Malin - 2014

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...

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(Lack of) pension knowledge

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013

Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years … well-informed about pensions. However, there are many reasons to believe that individuals may not be well-informed due to … the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … occupational pensions. …

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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members' attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household...

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