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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children´s Long-Term Outcomes
Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and … labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze …
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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?
Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on wellbeing.More involved parents convey to … their children that they are interested intheir development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born inBritain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent …
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Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions - A Comparison of Germany and Norway
Büsch, Victoria; Dahl, Svenn-Age; Dittrich, Dennis A.V. - 2004
The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges, it is important to understand the impact of a worker's age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differentlyin the hiring process. (...)
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Determinants of Early Retirement in Switzerland
Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>
In the past decade, Switzerland has experienced a large increase in the number ofindividuals that went into early retirement. This paper takes a look at the determinants of earlyretirement using data from the 2002 Swiss Labor Force Survey that contains an interestingmodule on this topic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005852862
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870739
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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 … adults played a card game which was composed of risky and ambiguous conditions. In the risk condition, participants knew the … (thus, there was lack of information). When confronted with risky decisions, the behaviour of older and young adults …
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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany
Zaidi, Asghar; Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...
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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examinesthe impact of a voluntary 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,...
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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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