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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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health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …
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containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …
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In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …
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supply and endogenous retirement. In this environment, the optimal labor tax is hump-shaped in age: insurance benefits of … taxation push for increasing-in-age taxes while rising labor supply elasticities and optimal late retirement of highly … combination of age-dependent linear taxes with increasing-in-age retirement benefits generates welfare gains close to optimal. …
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are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits … than the former system. I study whether the reform has led to delayed retirement by examining the retirement patterns of … retirement hazard among latter born cohorts, who were more affected by the reform. This implies that retirement is delayed. Most …
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-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s, older workers had the option of partial retirement with an income replacement … women chose part-time retirement after the reduction in benefit levels in 1981. There was an approximate 4 percentage point … drop in the partial retirement propensity among eligible 60-year old men, and a 5.7 percent drop among women. This …
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Old-age pension reform is on the agenda across the OECD, and a key target is to delay retirement. Most of these … quantitative life-cycle model with endogenous retirement to study how DI and old-age pension (OA-pension) systems interact with … health and wages to determine retirement age, with particular focus on the macroeconomic effects of OA-pension reforms …
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This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers … in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …
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In this paper, we study alternative pension reforms designed to achieve fiscal sustainability in the face of demographic change. We are particularly interested in the heterogeneous effects across demographic groups, as improvements in health and longevity have not been uniform across the...
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