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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2004

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …

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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo - 2015

Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...

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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers

Picchio, Matteo - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands : An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector

Euwals, Rob - 2011

Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades. The reforms have increased incentives to continue working and have decreased the substitution between early retirement and disability. This study investigates the impact of the...

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Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs : Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Household Consumption When the Marriage is Stable

Cherchye, L. - 2014

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable. In particular, stability means that the...

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Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Bloemen, Hans - 2010

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...

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First Time Parents' Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam : Father's Part-Time Work, Family's Immigrant Background and Mother's Work for Pay When the Infant is Very Young

Wetzels, C.M.M.P - 2021

We analyze first time parents' work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner's (change of) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family's immigrant background. This study explores both issues in addition to the effects...

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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and Their Implications for Retirement

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using the American Time Use...

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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers : Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2015

Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire one year later on average. Total life-time labour supply, however, decreases with 3.4 months...

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