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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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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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% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early retirement possibilities: the reforms have tried to tackle these …
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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....
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supply as well as a reduction in undeclared work. The increase of the statutory retirement ages for men and women have … increased average employment rates of the elderly, but also retirement through alternative schemes, most notably disability … pensions and early retirement pensions. In a few cases, the Estonian benefit schemes generate disincentives to seek for a job …
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This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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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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health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …
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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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