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Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed visa-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Implications of Full and Partial Retirement for Replacement Rates in a Defined Benefit System

Kantarci, Tunga - 2011

In this paper we use the actual rules and formulas of an occupational pension fund, the state pension fund and the tax system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement scenarios. We then vary the parameters of the pension...

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Retirement and Home Production : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Stancanelli, Elena - 2011

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...

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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L. - 2015

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...

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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being

Bonsang, Eric - 2011

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of...

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Pension Reform with Variable Retirement Age - A Simulation Analysis for Germany

Fehr, Hans - 2010

In 2007 Germany has introduced a pension reform which increases the normal retirement age from currently age 65 to 67. The present study aims to quantify the macroeconomic, welfare and efficiency consequences of this reform by means of a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping...

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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers : Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis

Elsayed, Ahmed; de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2015

Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing fulltime pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire one year later on average. Total life-time labour supply, however, decreases with 3.4 months...

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The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands : An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector

Euwals, Rob; van Vuren, Annemiek; van Vuuren, Daniel J. - 2011

Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades. The reforms have increased incentives to continue working and have decreased the substitution between early retirement and disability. This study investigates the impact of the...

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The Necessity of Self-Employment Towards Retirement : Evidence from Labor Market Dynamics and Search Requirements for Unemployment Benefits

Been, Jim; Knoef, Marike - 2015

what degree job search requirements for unemployment benefits induce people to become self-employed. For this purpose we … relatively high probability to become self-employed, e.g. to end or avoid a period of unemployment or inactivity (necessity … workers increased the outflow from unemployment and decreased the inflow into unemployment, but did not increase self …

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Home Production and Retirement in Couples : A Panel Data Analysis

Bonsang, Eric - 2015

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement decisions are correlated with unobserved characteristics...

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