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In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different...
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We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws on labor supply among older adults; the demographic group with the highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement Study to study this question and estimate...
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increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers … of the career. We aim at evaluating the overall effectiveness of the ISP in rising the employment rate of older workers …. To that purpose, we compare the actual evolution of the employment rate after the implementation of the policies to its …
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …
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I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension subsidy program for low-pay workers. The subsidies have a kinked relationship with the recipients' past contributions, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar...
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Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an … explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates …
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In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...
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We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire after beginning to receive pension benefits; those who continue working are more likely to be...
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