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its dimensions, its specifics related to age, gender, sector of economic activities and type of profession, as well as …
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Early retirement of workers is used by firms as means to rejuvenate their workforces. In principle, workers can either simply be laid off or can be offered an early retirement option combined with a financial bonus. However, dismissing masses of older workers may be detrimental to social peace...
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The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Italy and Italian geographical repartitions. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via...
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The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Europe and Us. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health...
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In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
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focus of our investigation lies on the working age population and its age structure. Our calculations are based on the … population projection released by Statistik Austria in 2005. We present three different scenarios with respect to age specific … the labour force but also leads to a more homogenous age distribution of the labour force. …
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(i.e. in average hours worked per worker). • Secondly, the negative effect of a change in the age-structure of the … the age of 55. A very strong fall in the productivity of older workers compared with that of prime-age workers would be …
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Employment to population ratios differ markedly across OECD coun- tries, especially for people over 55. Social security features also differ markedly across the OECD, particularly with respect to replacement rates, entitlement ages and earnings tests. I conjecture that differences in social...
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differences are even larger for the old age (55-69 years). There are also large differences in various features of social security …, such as the replacement rate, the entitlement age or whether it is allowed to collect social security while working. These …
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We show that the introduction of unfunded public pensions in a Cobb-Douglas economy with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility may cause complex economic cycles when individuals are short-sighted. In particular, the risk of cyclical instability increases with both the individual...
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