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The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search : A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment

Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2006

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 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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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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Job Creation and Job Destruction Over the Life Cycle : The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François - 2021

policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we …

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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 workes. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but...

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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; … - 2021

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

Graf, Nikolaus - 2009

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

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

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...

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Great expectations : past wages and unemployment durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

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