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Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?
Geyer, Johannes; Welteke, Clara - 2017
this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the … reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not find evidence for active …
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply: Theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293192
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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2013
Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a consequence of population aging assistance to elderly parents, rather than child care, has become a prevalent activity in home-production services. Immigrant labor has increasingly become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328978
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352240
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The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions
Manoli, Dayanand; Weber, Andrea - 2016
We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data allows us to distinguish between pension claims and job...
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How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa; Góra, Marek - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653408
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Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension
Grogan, Louise; Summerfield, Fraser - 2018
This paper examines the impacts of a large and anticipated government transfer, the Russian old-age pension, on labor supply, home production and subjective wellbeing. The discontinuity in eligibility at pension age is exploited for inference. The 2006-2011 Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...
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Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931583
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A Collective Retirement Model : Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2004
We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses? leisure. Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified by using panel data with couples and individuals who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262042
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The interaction between retirement and job search: a global approach to older workers employment
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 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/10010267485