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Sind ältere Beschäftigte weniger produktiv? Eine empirische Analyse anhand des LIAB

Schneider, Lutz - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2006

Against the background of an aging labor force in Germany and insufficient job chances of elders the paper rises the …

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Johnson, Malcolm L.; Cullen, Lesley; Patsios, Demi - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000

The reformulation of the regulation of long-term care seen in the recent White Paper and Royal Commission in the UK has led to topical debates on long-term care for older people. Given that there are over 500,000 people in residential nursing and dual registered homes across the country, there...

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Unhealthy retirement? Evidence of occupation heterogeneity

Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Peracchi, Franco - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2014

We investigate the causal effect of retirement on health and cognitive abilities by exploiting the variation between and within European countries in old age retirement rules. We show negative and significant effect of retirement on both health and cognitive abilities. We also show evidence of...

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Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players tend to leave the game in the earliest phases of their career. When the effects of age on productivity vary with...

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The long-lasting effects of family background: A European cross-country comparison

Mazzonna, Fabrizio - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 25-42

childhood and old age health, income and cognition varies across 11 European countries. It uses the Survey on Health, Aging and …

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012

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Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss Over the Lifespan and Over Time

Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012

The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship...

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Population Aging, Productivity, and Living Standards

Scarth, William - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living … standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may … least three adjustment mechanisms that insulate living standards from the adverse effects of an aging population. …

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Aging, cognitive abilities and retirement

Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Peracchi, Franco - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2009

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population...

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