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Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exitfrom the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in … hours of work is a useful measure topostpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with …

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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Motives for Early Retirement: Switzerland in an International Comparison

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen> - 2004

, in the past decade, Switzerland has experienced amarked trend toward early retirement. This study analyzes the motives of … early retirement inSwitzerland in the 1990s... …

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitionsto Employment and Early Retirement for OlderWorkers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement … re-employment and retirement...<br< …

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Firms and Early Retirement:Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Bellmann, Lutz; Janik, Florian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result ofmaximizing expected individual …

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Determinants of Early Retirement in Switzerland

Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>

retirement. This paper takes a look at the determinants of earlyretirement using data from the 2002 Swiss Labor Force Survey that …

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THE DETERMINANTS AND WAGE EFFECTS OF COURSE-RELATED TRAINING OF ELDERLY WORKERS IN SWITZERLAND

Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Henneberger, Fred - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen> - 2003

In this paper, the course-related training of elderly workers in Switzerland isanalysed with data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Elderly individuals invest substantialamounts in their human capital via course-related training...

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Subjective Health Assessments and Active LaborMarket Participation of Older Men: Evidence froma Semiparametric Binary Choice Model withNonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Ef...

Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate theeffect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men aroundretirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically … introduce anendogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. Thisresults from justification …

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Training Participation of an Aging Workforce in an Internal Labor Market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010

We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market toanalyze the effect of age on the probability to participate in different training measures.We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and thatlonger training measures are...

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Aging and decision making: How aging affects decisions under uncertainty

Sproten, Alec; Diener, Carsten; Fiebach, Christian; … - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und …; … - 2010

In an aging society, it becomes more and more important to understand how aging affects decision making. Older adults have to face many situations that require consequential financial decisions. In the present study, we examined the effects of aging on decisions in two domains of uncertainty:...

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