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A formal investigation of inequalities in health behaviours after age 50 on the Island of Ireland

Hudson, Eibhlin; Madden, David; Mosca, Irene - 2014

health behaviours using data on older adults from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We employ concentration … incomes in both regions. In relation to physical activity, the magnitude of the inequality is higher for Northern Ireland … status tend to play a less pronounced role. In terms of Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland comparisons with respect to the …

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Graying and staying on the job : the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers

Morries, Todd; Dostie, Benoît - 2023

We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employeremployee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar reductions in job separation rates and retirement hazards...

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Does raising the pension age prolong working life?: evidence from pension age reform in Estonia

Soosaar, Orsolya; Puur, Allan; Leppik, Lauri - 2020

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Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan : does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?

Niimi, Yoko - 2021

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Are cancer survivors who are eligible for social security more likely to retire than healthy workers? : evidence from difference-in-differences

Candon, David - 2015

Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health literature focuses specifically on the effect that cancer has on retirement. Social Security may offer a pathway to retirement for eligible workers but the separate effects...

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The effect of cancer on the employment of older males : attenuating selection bias using a high risk sample

Candon, David - 2015

Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics. This is particularly relevant to cancer, where improvements in screening and treatments have led to increases in survival for nearly all types of cancer. In order to address...

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Statutory, effective and optimal net tax schedules in Lithuania

Černiauskas, Nerijus; Jousten, Alain - 2020

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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan M. - 2009

The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers' managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

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