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The Effect of Health on Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement
Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2012
propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780624
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How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa - 2017
out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the … unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born between 1940 and 1965 who were registered with any of the public … time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …
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Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2021
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324834
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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examinesthe impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exitfrom the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure topostpone retirement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486882
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Working Hours Flexibility andOlder Workers' Labor Supply
Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect onolder workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel datafor the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employedmale workers can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862554
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
Manoli, Dayanand - 2010
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated discontinuous changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We first present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136776
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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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Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents : Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Ha Trong - 2012
In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...
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