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In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply …
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We study the labor supply effects and welfare implications of introducing a universal means-tested old-age assistance program in times of very limited social protection. We take advantage of a unique historical reform: The Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided...
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longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that disability levels in Europe … have increased due to population ageing and an increase in the prevalence of diseases. The disabling effect of health …
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across countries and over time using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We estimate not only …We analyze the causal effect of retirement on mental health, exploiting differences in retirement eligibility ages … mental health distribution. We find unequally distributed protective effects of retirement on mental health. These gains are …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health …, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … and within countries and use retirement thresholds in an instrumental variable setting. On average, we find that entering …
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
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areas on the urban fringe, rapid demographic ageing aff ects neighbourhood populations and local economies. …
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areas on the urban fringe, rapid demographic ageing aff ects neighbourhood populations and local economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533924