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Old-Age Labor Force Participation in Germany : What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017

The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...

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Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation : Evidence in Germany and Across Europe

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021

All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less...

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Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Germany

Börsch-Supan, Axel; Rausch, Johannes; Goll, Nicolas - 2022

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …”. We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

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The Relationship between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers : Evidence from Germany

Berg, Peter - 2015

In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for managing this demographic transition. This study examines relationships between establishment...

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Can Policy Facilitate Partial Retirement? Evidence from Germany

Berg, Peter - 2015

retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment … of employment by 1.8 years. As the policy evolved to include an abrupt retirement option, the worklife gain for men fell … to 1.2 years. Among women, part-time employment grew less and employment duration changed little initially but later …

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Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany

Börsch-Supan, Axel H.; Jürges, Hendrik - 2021

Germans retire early. On the one hand, early retirement is very costly and amplifies the burden which the German public pension system has to carry due to population aging. On the other hand, however, early retirement is also seen as a much appreciated social achievement which increases the...

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Healthy, Happy and Idle : Estimating the Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Germany

Juerges, Hendrik - 2016

whose employment patterns are or were hardly affected by the current (early) retirement incentives. Using these “pure health …

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Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement : Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany

Juerges, Hendrik - 2014

About 20% of German workers retire on disability pensions. Disability pensions provide fairly generous benefits for those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to...

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Financial Factors and Investment in Belgium, France, Germany and the Uk : A Comparison Using Company Panel Data

Bond, Stephen R. - 2010

We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period …

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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci H. - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...

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