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The unbearable weight of aging: How to deal with the "demographic time bomb"
Nersisyan, Yeva; Liu, Xinhua; Wray, L. Randall - 2023
The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths … financially unsustainable. This paper argues that most of the discussion and policy solutions proposed surrounding aging of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474474
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273928
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Labour supply incentives, and income support systems in Estonia
Võrk, Andres - 2009
In this paper we give an overview of labour supply incentives present in the Estonian income support system and how changes during the last ten years in the Estonian benefit system have influenced the incentives. As Estonia belongs to the group of EU countries where both taxes and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273968
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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in- difference strategy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294619
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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?
Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294913
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Too old to work, too young to retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2013
We study whether employment prospects of old and young workers differ after a plant closure. Using Austrian administrative data, we show that old and young workers face similar displacement costs in terms of employment in the long-run, but old workers lose considerably more initially and gain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368257
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Global demographic trends and provisioning for the future
Wray, L. Randall - 2006
The world's population is aging. Virtually no nation is immune to this demographic trend and the challenges it brings … argues that those calling for reform have overstated the demographic challenges ahead. Reformers conclude that aging poses … our ability to care for an aging population in a progressive manner that will not put undue burdens on future workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266520
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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks that increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662700
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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure
Steinmann, Lukas; Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - 2006
The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports … time-to-death is an endogenous determinant of HCE. Third, it investigates the contribution of population aging to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315546