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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

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Labor market entry and earnings dynamics : Bayesian inference using mixtures-of-experts Markov chain clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the effects of labor...

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Pensionszugang in Österreich im internationalen Vergleich

Wipplinger, Ronald; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007

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Layoff tax and the employment of the elderly

Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...

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Benefit duration and unemployment entry : a quasi-experiment in Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: European economic review : EER 47 (2003) 2, pp. 259-273

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Does the color of the collar matter? : firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000 - Revised Version

) contributions from unemployment insurance funds, by the previous firms themselves, as well as by a collectively-bargained special …

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Labour supply effects of a subsidised old-age part-time scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …. Furthermore, the programme seems to reduce the measured unemployment risk. However, the total number of hours worked is …

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Retirement of spouses and social security reform

Zweimüller, Josef - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 2, pp. 449-472

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years. -- fertility ; unemployment ; plant closings ; human capital …

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