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Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2013 - This version: August 13, 2013

retirement as an absorbing state, that we calibrate to match the observed patterns. Our finding is that the dynamics of relative … into retirement. In contrast, differences in layoff rates and job offer arrival rates cannot explain these patterns. Our … results support the idea that retirement incentives, more than weak labor demand, are responsible for the low employment rates …

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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

social security reforms. We further estimated the association of ITAX with an individual's decisions concerning retirement … forms on retirement based on the estimated regression parameters. The results showed that a higher ITAX drove individuals …

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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

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Labor market entry and earnings dynamics : Bayesian inference using mixtures-of-experts Markov chain clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the effects of labor...

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Pensionszugang in Österreich im internationalen Vergleich

Wipplinger, Ronald; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages : Evidence from Japan

Usui, Emiko - 2016

This paper explores the extent to which older Japanese can potentially expand the labor supply, based on two analytic approaches: the Milligan-Wise and Cutler et al. methods. First, we examine how much older individuals could work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in...

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Layoff tax and the employment of the elderly

Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...

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Social Security Programs and the Elderly Employment in Japan

Oshio, Takashi - 2018

We examine how the change in the trend of the elderly's employment rates has been associated with changes in incentives of social security and its related programs in Japan since the 1980s. We compute the tax force to retire early, using the institutional parameters and synthetic earnings...

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Labour supply effects of a subsidised old-age part-time scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …. Furthermore, the programme seems to reduce the measured unemployment risk. However, the total number of hours worked is …

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Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017

The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...

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