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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe : The Importance of Being Healthy
Kalwij, Adriaan - 2006
In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different...
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The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply of Older Adults : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch - 2017
We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws on labor supply among older adults; the demographic group with the highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement Study to study this question and estimate...
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
Ye, Han - 2018
This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy program to low pay workers, implemented in 1992. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910725
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Kink Design in Germany
Ye, Han - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890153
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Effect of Immigration on Depression Among Older Natives in Western Europe
Escarce, Jose - 2019
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857705
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Do Wages Continue Increasing at Older Ages? Evidence on the Wage Cushion in the Netherlands
Deelen, Anja - 2014
In this study, we investigate the anatomy of older workers' wages. The central question is whether the wage cushion – i.e., the difference between actual wages and collectively agreed-upon (maximum) contractual wages – contributes to the fact that wages continue increasing at older ages. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046645
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Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments' Perspective
Bellmann, Lutz; Brussig, Martin - 2021
In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317141
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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
Nolan, Anne - 2018
A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share … of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher self-employment rates at the end of the … transitions into self-employment at older ages. In this paper, we use data from four waves of the Irish Longitudinal Study on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914339
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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083691
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Job Insecurity and Health : Evidence from Older European Workers
Suari-Andreu, Eduard; Schwartz, Tim; Lent, Max; Knoef, … - 2022
of an IV strategy that uses an index for employment protection legislation (EPL) as an instrument for job insecurity. We …
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