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externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …
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This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for … their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …
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This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address … significant effect of retirement on informal care provision, when using early retirement age thresholds as instruments … further exploit a sizable increase in the early retirement age for German women and find that affected women provide less non …
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Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We use panel data and a difference-in-difference approach to comprehensively analyse the direct and indirect effects of these reforms, investigating mechanisms for indirect effects....
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Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement … retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%. …
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assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …
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The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …
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the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …
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Using rich Finnish population level registers, we examine the impact of fusing a flexible early retirement pathway with …-related early retirement declined by 1.8 (1.5) percentage points equivalent to a relative drop of approximately 37% (39%) following … stronger behavioural response to the reform. We find tentative evidence of programme substitution to early retirement pathways …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called retirement consumption puzzle. Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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