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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
Blanchet, Didier - 2016
labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms that took place since 1993. The French … ageing process is driven by large gains in life expectancy and Pension reforms allocate part of these gains to work rather …
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2016
consumption. In response to this, several countries have mandated delays to age of first entitlement to pension benefits in order … sustain the longer working lives that delayed pension benefits may encourage. We estimate the health capacity to work longer …
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Older Americans Would Work Longer If Jobs Were Flexible
Ameriks, John - 2018
Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work, especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job opportunities or low expectations about finding them...
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Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century : Was There a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2009
This paper considers the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight. With data on inmates incarcerated in the Tennessee and Illinois state penitentiaries between 1831 and 1892, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?
Jacob, Brian - 2021
This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010
Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...
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Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers
Bewerunge, Philipp - 2013
Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension … included in the model. On the other hand, pension wealth accumulation is greater for employees in all three government sectors … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …
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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits
Neumark, David - 2011
The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...
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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
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