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Rising longevity, increasing the retirement age, and the consequences for knowledge-based long-run growth
Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by … the retirement age fosters economic growth. How economic growth changes in response to rising life expectancy depends on … the retirement response. Employing numerical analysis we find that the requirement for experiencing a growth stimulus from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156427
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Pension reforms and couples' labour supply decisions
Moghadam, Hamed M.; Puhani, Patrick A.; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2023
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276001
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Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries : an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303654
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Calling older workers back to work
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021
Population aging in advanced economies could have significant macroeconomic implications, unless more individuals choose to participate in labor markets. In this context, the steep increase in the share of older workers who remain economically active since the mid1990s is an overlooked yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417615
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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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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-)equality : how big is the glass ceilings for mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164105
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The Arab Spring and the employability of youth : early evidence from Egypt
Selwaness, Irene; Roushdy, Rania - 2017
and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th …This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 … 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011. Using recent data from the 2014 Survey of Young People in Egypt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110543