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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Haller, Andreas - 2020

We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus - 2009

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …

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Long-Term Effects of Extended Unemployment Benefits for Older Workers

Kyyrä, Tomi - 2017

This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 for people born in 1950 or later. Our regression discontinuity estimates...

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Lalive, Rafael - 2013

matching models and discuss the policy implications of our results for the EUC extensions in the US …

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The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health : Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Mosca, Irene - 2014

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our primary objective is to investigate the impact of...

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A Regression Discontinuity Evaluation of Reducing Early Retirement Eligibility in Poland

Komada, Oliwia - 2018

The reform introduced in Poland in 2009 substantially and abruptly reduced the number of workers eligible for early retirement. This paper evaluates the causal effects of this reform on labor force participation and exit to retirement. We use rich rotating panel from the Polish Labor Force...

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Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

Coe, Norma B.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we use unexpected early retirement window offers to...

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The Impact of a Phased Retirement Program : A Case Study

Lachowska, Marta - 2009

Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time either in the same job or by changing jobs, and stay on in...

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