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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...
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Hours of work and retirement behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282150
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a strong and negative relationship between the age of workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297386
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2005
research on the diffusion of new technologies, a strong and negative relationship between the age of workers and computer use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298011
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Labor Force Activity after 60: Recent Trends in the Scandinavian Countries with Germany as a Benchmark
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2015
the German labor market is included as a frame of reference. Main emphasis is given to the development in two distinct age … than 65 mostly eligible for social security retirement programs. For these two age groups the actual development in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401665
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Labour force activity after 65: what explain recent trends in Denmark, Germany and Sweden?
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 15-27
In most OECD member countries labour force attachment, has increased in recent years not only in the age groups 60 … security retirement programs from age 65. The gender aspect is included to accommodate different trends for women and men. To … explain country differences in trends, the importance of changes in retirement policies of relevance for this age group and …
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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
Nolan, Anne; Barrett, Alan - 2018
the determinants of transitions in employment states at older age. We find that the higher proportion of self …
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Working Beyond 65 in Ireland
Nolan, Anne; Barrett, Alan - 2018
Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931629
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers - An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2005
previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a strong and negative relationship between the age of workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262991
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The impact of a phased retirement program: a case study
Lachowska, Marta; Sundén, Annika; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2009
Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … for a part-time pension up to the age of 65. The employers decide if they will accept or reject the application. They may … also encourage employees to apply or discourage them from doing so. We have a data set covering all employees of the age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268943