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a strong trend towards later retirement as a result of social and economic pressures, without any policy action. The … results will be largely positive and should therefore be supported by policy whenever possible. Delaying work-retirement … provide consistency in signals about retirement ages. …
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retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension agreement with the employer and employee … the expected retirement age by 3.6 months for employees born between 1954 and 1959 and by 10.8 months for those born after … 1959. This increase is reflected in a clear shift in the retirement peak from age 65 to ages 66 and 67 for the respective …
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empirically characterize a Life- Cycle model of retirement and claiming decisions in terms of the employment, wage, health, and … retirement benefits claiming behavior in the United States; namely, higher unemployment uncertainty, higher unemployment benefits …
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In this paper, we explore the links between pension reform, early retirement, and the use of unemployment as an … alternative pathway to retirement. We use a dynamic rational expectations model to analyze the search and retirement behaviour of … employed and unemployed workers aged 50 or over. The model is calibrated to reproduce the main reemployment and retirement …
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The current practice of measuring age as years-since-birth distorts important behavior such as retirement, saving, and … other things. GDP would be between seven and ten percent higher by 2050 if retirement lengths stabilize. Several policies …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity...
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participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where … has been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. We find significant impact on work after retirement from … education, gender, home ownership, aggregate unemployment at the time of retirement, age and education. Being married has a …
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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