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context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
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to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …-calculation window, combined with the discrete change in the probability of retirement at the minimum retirement age. We find that …
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Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time …
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incentives and information to improve the accuracy of employer reports can be an effective way to improve payroll-tax compliance. …
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facilitate longer working lives. Given spouse preferences for joint retirement, creating incentives for women to retire later may …This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between …
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context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371185
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …
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income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference …
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This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
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