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This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that …. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic …
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treatment of men and women in retirement security even when lifetime earnings and projected average life expectancy may differ …
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This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …
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reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …
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Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas. Up to now, the literature has treated children and elders...
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Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most observers agree that the … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It ….e., Gender × Education) at typical retirement age. It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that would be …
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The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased … penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability …
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better manage aging workforces. In face of the different country situations, it becomes obvious that one size of policies … future developments, several domains of organizational practices are indispensable for appropriately managing an aging …
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The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths … China's exports. France is pushing through an increase of the retirement age in the face of what is called a demographic … financially unsustainable. This paper argues that most of the discussion and policy solutions proposed surrounding aging of …
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Higher life expectancy and rapidly aging populations have led to the introduction of pension programs in developing …. Our findings support the mental retirement hypothesis that decreased mental activity results in atrophy of cognitive … skills. We show that retirement plays a significant role in explaining cognitive decline at older ages. …
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