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In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems …
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In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems …
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This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step-wise for different quarter-of-birth cohorts. Empirical...
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There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several countries have in place various labour market institutions that...
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We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...
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We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...
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both government revenues and expenditures. For example, population aging will increase expenditures on the elderly while … both demographic changes and economic growth. Rapidly aging economies like the Republic of Korea; Japan; and Taipei … still-growing working-age populations. Overall, our simulation results indicate that Asia's population aging will adversely …
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Asia is aging, although there is significant heterogeneity across subregions and economies. Population aging poses two …
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A hallmark of modern labor economics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New theoretical approaches, in particular job-search theory, have...
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