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The effect of removing early retirement on mortality
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Ye, Han - 2022
This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382055
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The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality
Bellés Obrero, Cristina; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Ye, Han - 2022
This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426426
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Retirement Incentives, Individual Heterogeneity and Labour Transitions of Employed and Unemployed Workers
García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
In this paper we analyze the sensitivity of the labour market decisions of workers close to retirement with respect to … incentives on retirement in two ways. First, by modeling the transitions between employment, unemployment and retirement in a … simultaneous manner, paying special attention to the transition from unemployment to retirement (which is particularly important in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547473
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Assessing the wellbeing of the Spanish elderly
Boldrin, Michele; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
In this paper we use a variety of data sources, both micro and macro, time series, cross section, and panel data to provide an empirical evaluation of the current level of economic wellbeing of the Spanish elderly, and of its determinants. We focus, in particular on the role played by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704960
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The effects of employment uncertainty and wealth shocks on the labor supply and claiming behavior of older American workers
Benítez-Silva, Hugo; García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
retirement and claiming decisions in terms of the employment, wage, health, and mortality uncertainty faced by individuals. Our … Early Retirement Age, while still explaining the increased claiming hazard at the Normal Retirement Age. We also discuss … remained very high in the last years even as the early retirement penalties have increased substantially compared with previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147823
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Retirement incentives, individual heterogeneity and labour transitions of employed and unemployed workers
García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
In this paper we analyze the sensitivity of the labour market decisions of workers close to retirement with respect to … incentives on retirement in two ways. First, by modeling the transitions between employment, unemployment and retirement in a … simultaneous manner, paying special attention to the transition from unemployment to retirement (which is particularly important in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683242
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Retirement incentives, individual heterogeneity and labor transitions of employed and unemployed workers
García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - In: Labour Economics 20 (2013) C, pp. 106-120
In this paper, we analyze the sensitivity of the labor market decisions of workers close to retirement with respect to … incentives on retirement by jointly modeling the transitions between employment, unemployment and retirement, paying special … attention to the transition from unemployment to retirement (which is particularly important in Spain and other European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051683
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Reforming the U.S. Social Security system accounting for employment uncertainty
Benítez-Silva, Hugo; García-Pérez, José Ignacio; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014
retirement decisions. In this context, we explicitly consider the participation decision of older individuals along with their … decision to claim Social Security retirement benefits, using a sequential decision structure. We have numerically solved and … exactly at the Early Retirement Age. The model is also able to replicate the declining labor force participation at older ages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099203
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Does long-term care subsidisation reduce unnecessary hospitalisations?
Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2016
The expansion of long-term care (LTC) coverage may improve health system efficiency by reducing hospitalisations (bed-blocking), and pave the way for the implementation of health and social care coordination plans. We draw upon the quasi-experimental evidence from the main expansion of long term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536246
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Trade-off between formal and informal care in Spain
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Prieto, Cristina Vilaplana - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
The remarkable growth of older population has moved long term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda. Understanding the factors that determine the type and amount of formal care is important for predicting use in the future and developing long-term policy. In this context we jointly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248473