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Bridging the gap in pension participation : how much can universal tax-deferred pension coverage hope to achieve?

Karamcheva, Nadia; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - 2013

-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …

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Voluntary job separations and traditional versus flexible workplace saving plans : evidence from Canada

Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019

This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...

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COVID-19 private pension withdrawals and unemployment tenures

Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert; Watson, Timothy - 2022

This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...

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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil. Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …

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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...

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Old‐age employment and hours of work trends : empirical analysis for four European countries

Aliaj, Arjeta; Flawinne, Xavier; Jousten, Alain; … - 2016

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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Shattered dreams : the effects of changing the pension system late in the game

Grip, Andries de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - 2009

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...

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Automatic enrollment, employer match rates and employee compensation in 401(k) plans

Butrica, Barbara A.; Karamcheva, Nadia S. - 2015

relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan participation, automatic enrollment has the …

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Integrating social insurance and social assistance programs for the future world of labor

Palacios, Robert J.; Robalino Aguirre, David A. - 2020

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

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