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We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a …
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. Following the methodology proposed by Milligan and Wise (2012), which uses the cohort mortality rate as a proxy for overall … health status, we quantify the additional employment capacity of current older men in reference to the mortality …
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In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …
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Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with increasing life expectancy at retirement is a popular … Bayesian Model Ensemble of heterogeneous stochastic mortality models comprised of parametric models, principal component … process, model, and parameter risks. The results show that: (i) retirement ages are forecasted to increase substantially in …
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We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at the newly created age-based eligibility threshold....
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Jahren erreichen. Dieser plötzliche Rückgang tritt erst nach Erreichen der Altersgrenze und erst nach der Umsetzung des OPA …
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. Therefore, a pension system with a unique retirement age is a priori problematic. The usual policy recommendation to address … this problem is to differentiate the retirement age by SES. This paper explores the relative merits of partial de …
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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