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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe
Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018
labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131032
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The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2022
The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … study the link between retirement and financial retirement incentives created by the social security system. We find that … the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801885
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019 - Current version: April 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159232
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Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers : evidence from administrative data in China
Wang, Tianyu; Sun, Ruochen; Sindelar, Jody Louise; Chen, Xi - 2024
Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female … workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the causal effect of retirement on hospitalizations attributable to mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465492
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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe
Hajdu, Gábor - 2021
This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616141
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020
Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults’ vulnerability and examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012873131
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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat
Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021
Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610762
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Does relative age affect speed and quality of transition from school to work?
Fumarco, Luca; Vandromme, Alessandro; Halewyck, Levi; … - 2022
We are the first to estimate the impact of relative age (i.e., the difference in classmates' ages) on both speed and quality of individuals' transition from education to the labour market. Moreover, we are the first to explore whether and how this impact passes through characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794503