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Older Men's Labor Force Participation in Belgium
Jousten, Alain - 2016
We provide an overview of the institutional framework in Belgium that is of relevance for labor market participation and retirement decision at older ages. We then describe key labor market indicators using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) over the period 1983‐2013 and also present...
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Effects of Working Part-Time and Full-Time on Physical and Mental Health in Old Age
Kantarcı, Tunga - 2017
Recent studies analyzed the effect of retirement on mental and physical health. Some of them find that retirement yields a loss in cognitive skills while others find that retirement preserves physical health. When analysing the effect of retirement against work activity, these studies do not...
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Early Retirement Across Europe. Does Non-Standard Employment Increase Participation of Older Workers?
Been, Jim; van Vliet, Olaf - 2014
In many European countries, the labor market participation of older workers is considerably lower than the labor market participation of prime-age workers. This study analyzes the variation in labor market withdrawal of older workers across 13 European countries over the period 1995-2008. We...
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Opportunities for Improving Pension Wealth Decumulation in the Netherlands
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011
This paper examines policies for the decumulation of pension wealth in the Netherlands. It suggests a design framework … in the Netherlands – and in sharp contrast to most other developed countries – this framework suggests that the welfare … of citizens in the Netherlands might be improved by reducing the level of mandatory annuitization in order to address …
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The Impact of Human Capital on Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice : Evidence for the Netherlands
Minderhoud, Ingmar - 2011
We study the impact of human capital on life-cycle portfolio choice using Dutch data. A distinction is made between the riskless view of human capital as having bond-like characteristics, and the risky conception of future wage income having stock-like properties. As in Benzoni, Collin-Dufresne,...
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Risk Sharing and Individual Lifecycle Investing in Funded Collective Pensions
Ponds, Eduard H.M. - 2011
Netherlands. Dutch pension funds traditionally are strong in organizing intergenerational risk sharing. There is a nationwide …
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The Impact of Scale, Complexity, and Service Quality on the Administrative Costs of Pension Funds – A Cross-Country Comparison
Bikker, Jacob Antoon - 2011
costs across Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the US. We find that, except for Canada, large unused economies of …
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Retirement Expectations in the Netherlands
van Soest, Arthur - 2011
We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity of Dutch state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the summer of 2006, monthly survey data were collected on the expectations of Dutch households...
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Pension Funds’ Asset Allocation and Participant Age : A Test of the Life-Cycle Model
Broeders, Dirk - 2011
This paper examines the impact of participants' age distribution on the asset allocation of Dutch pension funds, using a unique data set of pension fund investment plans for 2007. Theory predicts a negative effect of age on (strategic) equity exposures. We observe that pension funds do indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134156
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Private Wealth and Planned Early Retirement : A Panel Data Analysis for the Netherlands 1994-2009
van Ooijen, Raun - 2010
We study the causal relation between private wealth and retirement age. We propose two estimation strategies based on expected retirement age. The outcome variable is observed repeatedly over time. We correct first for the unobserved heterogeneity in the disutility of work by using panel data...
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