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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates : a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
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A life-span perspective on life satisfaction
Thieme, Paula; Dittrich, Dennis - 2015
The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299261
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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?
Wright, David - 2015
improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early … the UK would react faster than conservative ones like Germany. A review of changes to pensions and employment policies … suggests the UK puts more emphasis on recruitment of older workers, flexible working and gradual retirement while Germany puts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305297
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Occupation, prestige, and voluntary work in retirement : empirical evidence from Germany
Lengfeld, Holger; Ordemann, Jessica - 2014
The paper examines the extent to which the prestige value of a retiree's former occupation increases the likelihood that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume that when a person retires, the prestige value attached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415971
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Personality maturation and personality relaxation: differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life
Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021
Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643683
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Labour supply and commuting
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009
issues empirically using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635917
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
comparison, more explicit. On the basis of microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for married couples in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827011
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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826563
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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland : die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten
Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826577
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The life-cycle hypothesis revisited : evidence on housing consumption after retirement
Beblo, Miriam; Schreiber, Sven - 2010 - This version: November 2010
hypothesis using micro data for Germany (SOEP) and find that income reductions when entering retirement have a negative effect on … the subgroup of non-home owners (60% in Germany), the effect is quantitatively small, which explains the ambiguity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827012