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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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participation of older worker in the labour market, in this paper we try to shed light on employment and retirement behaviour while … characterized by moderately generous income support while working along with lower pension entitlement in early retirement yield …
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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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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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Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the …
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We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement … and a broader definition of retirement including inactivity, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that …
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first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …
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employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved …
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retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men - especially those in lower-wage jobs - seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …
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of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time - between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women - especially those … in lower-wage jobs - often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …
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