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Pension Rules and Labour Market Mobility
Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans H.G.; Hochguertel, Stefan S. - 2017
This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
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Non-take-up of Tax-favored Savings Plans: Are Household Portfolios Optimal?
Alessie, Rob; Hochguertel, Stefan; van Soest, Arthur - 2001
Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and the returns as well as the withdrawals are...
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Retirement Choices in Italy: What an Option Value Model tells us
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2010
Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement choices. As far as we know, this isthe first empirical study to estimate the conditional multiple-years modelput forward by Stock and Wise (1990). This implies that we account...
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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Semiparametric Identification in Panel Data Discrete Response Models
Aristodemou, Eleni - 2018
This paper studies semiparametric identification in linear index discrete response panel data models with fixed effects. Departing from the classic binary response static panel data model, this paper examines identification in the binary response dynamic panel data model and the ordered response...
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The Effect of Skill Level on the Timing of Childbearing and Number of Children
Alders, Peter - 1998
This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...
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Childcare Subsidies and Labor Supply: Evidence from a large Dutch Reform
Bettendorf, L.J.H.; Jongen, Egbert L.W.; Muller, Paul - 2012
Over the period 2005-2009 the Dutch government increased childcare subsidies substantially, reducing the average effective parental fee by 50%, and extended subsidies to so-called guestparent care. We estimate the labour supply effect of this reform with a difference-in-differences strategy,...
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Fertility and Parental Retirement
Ilciukas, Julius - 2022
I study how retirement delays in one generation affect fertility in the subsequent generation. I use administrative …- lay retirement while exempting those born earlier. I find that this reduced fertility among women with reform … argue that the fertility reduction is driven by reduced grandparental child care supply. My results suggest that delaying …
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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers: Spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes
Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022
Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...
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Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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