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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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German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …
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We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous … a tax reform targeted at low income individuals on employment behavior and retirement decisions …
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In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for managing this demographic transition. This study examines relationships between establishment...
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This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...
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retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … of employment by 1.8 years. As the policy evolved to include an abrupt retirement option, the worklife gain for men fell … to 1.2 years. Among women, part-time employment grew less and employment duration changed little initially but later …
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In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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transitions into re-employment and retirement. The findings suggest that in countries with institutional provisions for older … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re-employment …
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