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-career job loss and retirement. Income losses due to men's retirement have grown in both countries, consistent with gradual … more heterogeneous, with more workers suffering very large income losses and having low income after retirement. Changes in … this trend. In Germany, where generous early retirement options were phased out after the mid-1990s, there is evidence that …
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labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …
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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...
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The current landscape of retirement is changing dramatically as population aging becomes increasingly visible. This … review of pressing retirement issues advocates research on (a) changing meanings of retirement, (b) impact of technology, (c …) the role of housing in retirement, (d) human resource strategies, (e) adjustment to changing retirement policies, (f) the …
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This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
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permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities … for phased retirement. The survey indicates that employers are often willing to permit phased retirement, but primarily as …
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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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This study considers active ageing policies in labour market in ten European countries. The study aims to identify changes to European labour markets in the past 15 years and assess what these changes mean for active ageing policy agendas (i.e. identify barriers and opportunities). In Active...
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The population of Sweden is ageing and the number of pensioners is increasing. This means that the incomes of older people and the income differences between older and younger people and among pensioners have become more important in terms of public debate and research. In this paper, we examine...
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If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one's previous employment …
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