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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation : How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
Karamcheva, Nadia S. - 2013
-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077328
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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001331
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Full Employment : A Distant Dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit S. - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil.Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073870
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Shattered Dreams : The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game
de Grip, Andries - 2009
This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764649
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Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends : Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
Aliaj, Arjeta - 2016
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996523
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Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement Among Immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2021
This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical model to illustrate that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324741
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The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use the first three waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine the retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than half of women appear to be making standard retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054598
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Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2019
Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the choice environment. Using administrative data on employer-sponsored retirement accounts linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864878
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Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional Versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans : Evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony - 2019
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870227
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Automatic Enrollment, Employer Match Rates and Employee Compensation in 401(K) Plans
Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015
relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan participation, automatic enrollment has the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028196