Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,245
Cover Image
The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
Cover Image
Retire later or work harder?
Bell, David N.F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2010
We compare two policies of increasing British state pension provision: (a) increase the pensionable age of men and women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons for policy makers to give serious consideration to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269397
Cover Image
The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278796
Cover Image
Job insecurity and future labour market outcomes
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - 2012
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287590
Cover Image
The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain
Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276683
Cover Image
Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
Cover Image
The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Au, Doreen; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262030
Cover Image
Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Eichhorst, Werner - 2006
Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than in many other European countries. The paper explains this by institutional factors that affect labor supply, labor demand and matching, i.e. labor market regulation, human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267620
Cover Image
The impact of a phased retirement program: a case study
Lachowska, Marta; Sundén, Annika; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2009
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 either in the same job or by changing jobs, and stay on in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268943
Cover Image
Age-dependent employment protection
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008
This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential employment gains related to employment protection are high for older workers, but higher firing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269359