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Does the negative effect of caregiving on work persist over time?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2017

kann. Zusätzlich zu kurzfristigen Effekten der Pflegetätigkeit auf das Arbeitsangebot der Pflegenden sind außerdem mittel …

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The dynamic and heterogeneous effects of retirement on cognitive decline

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2021

We study effects of retirement on cognitive abilities (up to ten years after retirement) using data from 21 countries in Continental Europe, England, and the US, and exploiting early-retirement thresholds for identification. For this purpose, combines event-study estimations with the marginal...

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Can pensions save lives? : evidence from the introduction of old-age assistance in the UK

Jäger, Philipp - 2023

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a quasi-natural experiment. Exploiting the newly created pension eligibility age through a difference-in-difference as well as an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality...

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Intensive informal care and impairments in work productivity and activity

Kolodziej, Ingo; Coe, Norma B.; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2023

Informal care reduces work on the intensive and extensive margins; however, we do not know how caregiving affects work productivity. We link two new unique national U.S. data sets to provide the first causal estimates of the effect of providing at least 80 hours of informal care in the past...

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Can educational investment mitigate the impact of aging on household leverage ratio?

Long, Teng; Bu, Kun; Du, Pengfei; Wang, Zhige - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 89 (2024) 1, pp. 1335-1347

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Inequality of opportunity in retirement age : the role of physical job demands

Giesecke, Matthias; Okoampah, Sarah - 2014

We quantify differences in the retirement age between manual and non-manual workers and evaluate these differences in the context of the literature on equality of opportunity. The focus is on the question how individual background during childhood transmits through physical demands of...

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Flexible or mandatory retirement? : welfare implications of retirement policies for a population with heterogeneous health conditions

Feng, Zhenhua; Lien, Jaimie W.; Zheng, Jie - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 69 (2020), pp. 1032-1055

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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...

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Import protection, exports and labor-demand elasticities : evidence from Korea

Mitra, Devashish; Shin, Jeongeun - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 23 (2012) 1, pp. 91-109

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Quasi-experimental methods in empirical regional science and policy analysis : is there a scope for application?

Mitze, Timo; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Alecke, Björn - 2012

revolution has yet to fully propagate to the field of regional science. We examine the scope for application of the matching … the matching approach is very appealing due to its methodological rigor and didactical clarity, we faced difficulties in … structural characteristics. Thus, results have to be interpreted with some caution. The matching approach nevertheless can be of …

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