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Pension incentives and the retirement decisions of couples
Atalay, Kadir; Barrett, Garry F. - 2016
spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of …
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Pension incentives and labor supply: evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK
Giesecke, Matthias; Jäger, Philipp - 2021
We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at the newly created age-based eligibility threshold....
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Retirement decision of Belgian couples and the impact of the social security system
Cetin, Sefane; Jousten, Alain - 2023
This paper investigates the retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. To forecast retirement behavior, we use … the spousal bonus of pension payments to comprehend how financial incentives resulting from the social security system …'s structural design affect both partners' retirement decisions. We simulate the effect of the elimination of the spousal bonus and …
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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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
people do not know what amount will be paid out on retirement and/or whether the payments will be in the form of lump …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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The causal effect of retirement on mortality : evidence from targeted Incentives to retire early
Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2013
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …
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Did Soviet elderly employment respond to financial incentives? : evidence from pension reforms
Malkova, Olga - 2019
This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do … of the Soviet old-age labor market. I find that Soviet pensioners are responsive to financial incentives. By 1969, after …
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Training background and early retirement
Montizaan, Raymond (contributor);  … - 2008
retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. -- Retirement ; training …
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Home production and retirement in couples : a panel data analysis
Bonsang, Eric; Soest, Arthur van - 2015
We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …
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