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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms Across Birth Cohorts : A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes - 2010
, gender and education and strongly affect lifecycle wage profiles. The largest effects can be observed for younger cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146821
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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform
Duncan, Denvil - 2009
We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158512
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868825
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The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family : Evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984867
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Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia During 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with … change the gender gaps in the intergenerational transmission. Our results are robust to different model specifications and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083729
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Framing Social Security Reform : Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age
Behaghel, Luc - 2010
We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts born from 1938 to 1943. We find strong evidence that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135993
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Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium : Labor Market Imperfections Matter
de la Croix, David - 2010
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136497
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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
Even, William E. - 2010
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with the design of the pension. Using panel data on over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136725
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter - 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122108
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122969