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Senior activity rate, retirement incentives, and labor relations

Blake, Hélène; Sangnier, Marc - 2011

In order to face the aging of their populations governments of developed countries reformed their retirement systems …

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The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor; Orszag, J. Michael - 2003

Despite substantial increases in longevity, the age of retirement in the industrialized countries has steadily fallen throughout most of the 20th century. In France, for instance, the employment-population ratio of 55-64 year-old males fell from 74% in 1970 to 38.5% in 2000. In most other OECD...

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Healthy, wealthy, wise, and happy? : an exploratory analysis of the interplay between aging and subjective well-being in low and middle income countries

Flores, Gabriela; Ingenhaag, Michael; Maurer, Jürgen - 2013

aging. Controlling for socio-demographic factors, we find higher levels of well-being for older persons relative to their …

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Workforce ageing and economic productivity: the role of supply and demand of labor: an application to Austria

Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia; Fent, Thomas - In: Current issues of economic growth : workshop March 5, 2004, (pp. 117-149). 2004

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Occupations shape retirement across countries

Sauré, Philip; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; … - 2023

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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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand

Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023

search and matching model with heterogeneous skills and contract durations rationalizes our main findings. …

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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016

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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The political economy of public investment when population is aging : a panel cointegration analysis

Jäger, Philipp; Schmidt, Torsten - 2015

aging on public investment. Moreover, the estimation of an error correction model reveals long-run Granger causality running … exclusively from aging to investment. Our results are robust to the inclusion of additional control variables typically considered …

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Demographic change and fiscal sustainability in Asia

Lee, Sang-hyop; Kim, Jungsuk; Park, Donghyun - 2016

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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Ageing and skills : the case of literacy skills

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019

The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD...

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