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Are older workers willing to learn?
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020
examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county …
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A nudge to quit? The effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labor supply and retirement choices among older workers
Hagen, Johannes; Hallberg, Daniel; Sjögren Lindquist, … - 2018
relevant context where the use of nudge is widespread; retirement. Specifically, we find that an exogenous application form …
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A nudge to quit? : the effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labour supply, and retirement choices among older workers
Hagen, Johannes; Hallberg, Daniel; Sjögren Lindquist, … - 2021
We study the effects of two exogenous modificationsin the Swedish pension system application formnudgingindividuals towards a fixed-term payout.Meanwhile, the set of available options and the default option-life annuity -were unchanged during the period under study. We examine the effects on...
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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 …
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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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 …
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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...
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Differentiating retirement age to compensate for career arduousness
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2021
Population ageing in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, many argue that this age … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that …
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Health, cognition and work capacity beyond the age of 50
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019
effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … margins of work (employment and hours): existing papers only consider the former. Results are essentially fivefold. First …
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The retirement migration puzzle in China
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We examine whether and how retirement affects migration decisions in China. Using a regression discontinuity (RD … retirement increases the probability of migration by 12.9 percentage points. Approximately 38% of the total migration effects can … be attributed to inter-temporal substitution (delayed migration). Retirement-induced migrants are lower-educated and have …
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