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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
Nolan, Anne; Barrett, Alan - 2018
labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …
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Working Beyond 65 in Ireland
Nolan, Anne; Barrett, Alan - 2018
Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931629
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The Effect of Increasing the Early Retirement Age on Savings Behavior Before Retirement
Etgeton, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Ye, Han - 2019
future employment. Exploiting across cohort variation in expected pension wealth induced by a 3-year lift in early retirement … age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …
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Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to "Retirement" of Rural Elders in China's Minority Regions
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345403
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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 Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-Hyop; Halliday, Timothy J. - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement … increasing their labor supply. Consistent with this, we show that parents with more adult sons delay their retirement. In … particular, an elderly parent with all sons has a retirement probability that is 7–10 percentage points lower than a comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931811
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010884100
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Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
Shah Goda, Gopi; Levy, Matthew; Flaherty Manchester, Colleen - 2018
In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential … present over the future, are highly significant and economically meaningful predictors of retirement savings. These … calculations suggest that eliminating EGB and PB would increase retirement savings by approximately 12 percent. …
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Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich
Buchholtz, Sonia; Gaska, Jan; Góra, Marek - 2018
The downward trend in replacement rate is going to affect the material wellbeing of Polish future retirees. The aim of this paper is to identify the pension strategies working Poles undertake to counteract future deterioration in material conditions, with particular interest in saving practices...
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Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?
Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert E. - 2022
Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in financial literacy (FL) via a study of teenagers, emerging adults and young adults. The analysis...
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