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In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …
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This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...
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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others' trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...
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of this approach in our con-text by studying the enrollment process. We develop a model allowing for duration dependence … and unobserved heterogeneity (leading to spurious duration dependence) in the treatment effect itself, and we prove non … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …
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deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …
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retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal … examine how social security financial incentives and personal characteristics affects one's own and spouses' retirement … decisions. Our results suggested that couples synchronize retirement and that they respond similarly to their own …
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This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older … industry employment increases (decreases) the probability of early retirement. This result is driven by the public sector; in … after early retirement are higher during declining as well as expanding industry employment. The results support an …
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This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously … year of birth while the social security system is governed by age at retirement, i.e., the day of birth, in analyzing the …
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This paper describes early retirement option programs in collective agreements in Sweden during the 1990s. We highlight … findings is that the effects of economic incentives on retirement very well might be over-estimated. …
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We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an … retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial … incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward. We propose an estimation strategy where the retirement …
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