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Estimating retirement behavior with special early retirement offers
Eklöf, Matias; Hallberg, Daniel - 2006
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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Alternative Approaches to Model Withdrawals from the Labour Market - A Literature Review
Hakola, Tuulia - 2002
The paper reviews large literature on retirement, keeping in mind the goal of finding a suitable model to the labour … defining retirement. The second section deals with a multitude of labour market exit channels. Specific features of modelling … old-age retirement, disability, sick leave, and unemployment of the aged are explained. The third section is concerned …
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Economic fluctuations and retirement of older employees
Hallberg, Daniel - 2008
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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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010
This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data on the workers' actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...
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Job search with bidder memories
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Menzio, Guido; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this...
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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes
Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017
The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...
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Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273959
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321450
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Pensionszugang in Österreich im internationalen Vergleich
Wipplinger, Ronald; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007
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