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Ecological tax revenue still yields lower pension contributions and higher pensions today
Bach, Stefan; Buslei, Hermann; Harnisch, Michelle; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 13, pp. 107-114
The ecological tax reform that Germany implemented between 1999 and 2003 increased energy tax rates-especially on …
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The Norwegian Pension Reform in 2011 : The Long Term Impact on Take-Up of Pension and Labor Supply
Hernæs, Erik - 2019
We investigate the impact on pension take-up and labour supply of a broad Norwegian pension reform. Focussing on the long term impact, we use a structural discrete choice model estimated on data for first groups to become eligible for the new pension, accounting for the opportunity cost of...
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The Norwegian pension reform in 2011 : the long term impact on take-up of pension and labor supply
Hernæs, Erik; Strøm, Steinar; Zhang, Tao - 2019
We investigate the impact on pension take-up and labour supply of a broad Norwegian pension reform. Focussing on the long term impact, we use a structural discrete choice model estimated on data for first groups to become eligible for the new pension, accounting for the opportunity cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030689
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Pension reform and labor supply : flexibility vs. prescription
Hernæs, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
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Pension Reform and Labor Supply : Flexibility vs. Prescription
Hernæs, Erik - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028188
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Ageing and labor productivity
Hernæs, Erik; Kornstad, Tom; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 82 (2023), pp. 1-11
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Earning distribution and labour supply after a retirement earnings test reform
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang - 2012 - Publisert 7. feb. 2012 12:58 - Sist endret 7. feb. 2012 13:03
Norwegian administrative data are used to evaluate the impact of a doubling of the threshold in the retirement earnings test. We find almost no impact on the extensive margin, but a positive effect on the intensive margin. This positive effect is uneven over the earnings distribution, and...
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Salience and social security benefits
Brinch, Christian N.; Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang - 2015
We study the effect of salience in the social security benefit system on labor earnings by exploiting kinks and notches in budget lines introduced by earnings testing and social security accrual mechanisms for 67-69 year old workers in Norway. An earnings test had large effects on labor...
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The labor market for older workers in Germany
Steiner, Viktor - In: Journal for labour market research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 1-14
The paper describes labor market developments for older workers in Germany in recent years. It provides a a summary of … the main changes in labor market and pension policies in Germany which might have contributed to these developments. The … changes in employment and long-term unemployment, early retirement as well as relative wages by age for Germany in the period …
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Labour supply response of a retirement earnings test reform
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang - 2009
Norwegian administrative data are used to evaluate the impact of a doubling of the threshold in the earnings test on the labour force activity. We find no impact on labour market participation, but positive effects on earnings. The effect increases with exposure to the reform and is stronger for...
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