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Labour force participation in the euro area: a cohort based analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gómez-Salvador, Ramón; Turunen, Jarkko - 2009

We use a cohort based model to analyse determinants of labour force participation for disaggregated groups of workers in the euro area and the five largest euro area countries. The model captures age and cohort effects as indicators of (unobserved) determinants of participation behaviour. We use...

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Top-heavy load: Trouble ahead for social security systems, Introduction by Peter A. Diamond

Diamond, Peter - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 3, pp. 28-36

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Pension Reforms for Sustainability and Fairness

Oksanen, Heikki - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 12-18

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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages

Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...

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The Effect of Disability on Employment Allowing for Work Incapacity

O'Donnell, Owen - 1998

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …

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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Pension Reforms in an Aging Society: A Fully Displayed Cohort Model

Simonovits, András - 2009

We fully display a cohort model of an economy with an aging population, taking into account varying family size, habit formation, inheritance and credit constraints. Filling the model with numbers, we are able to compare different pension reforms: 1. the base run, 2. the reduced accrual rates,...

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Pension reform during the demographic transition

Fehr, Hans - 1999

Like in many other OECD countries, the population will age rapidly in Germany during the next decades. This undermines the future sustainability of the current unfunded public pension system and motivates the search for reform options. The present paper aimes to evaluate some currently discussed...

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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Population Ageing and Pension Reform in a Small Open Economy with Non-Traded Goods

Bettendorf, Leon; Heijdra, Ben - 2005

In this paper we study the implications of population ageing in an economy with a sizeable non-traded goods sector. To this effect a highly stylized micro-founded macro model is constructed in which the age structure of the population plays a non-trivial role. The model distinguishes separate...

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