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fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will …
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Income support for working low income families (the ?working poor?) is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland …-efficient reform. Minimum wages are ineffective in fighting poverty. …
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retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …
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first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …
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employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …
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retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. …
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important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from … conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. Reduced-form models of retirement status which control … countrymen, particularly amongst men. This link is strongest for those individuals who are at (or near) retirement age and among …
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left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However …, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract as the … optimal contract that integrates unemployment insurance and retirement pension systems. …
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This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals. …
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