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This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that …. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic …
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This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …
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Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most observers agree that the … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It ….e., Gender × Education) at typical retirement age. It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that would be …
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment to test whether active choice framing impacts US Army service members' decision to transfer benefits. Individuals who received email messages framing GI Bill use...
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Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas. Up to now, the literature has treated children and elders...
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data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …
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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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This paper investigates how retirement influences the cognitive abilities of British older workers. The analysis …. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, we show that retirement induces cognitive decline, although the relationship … that maintaining a mentally engaging and stimulating life-style during retirement contributes to the cognitive health of …
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