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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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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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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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population aging today, pension reforms aimed at increasing elderly labor supply, however, have to induce much larger behavioral …
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We study the labor supply effects and welfare implications of introducing a universal means-tested old-age assistance program in times of very limited social protection. We take advantage of a unique historical reform: The Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided...
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326031
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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active working life. Retirement through either of these pensions was and in 2006 still is an accessible exit route from the … labour market that provides a minimal but secure income flow. For those reaching the minimum legal retirement age, retirement … system make retirement very attractive, especially for those with bad labour market prospects. Accepting that this system was …
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situation post retirement. However, economic motives seem to be more important for younger pensioners. …
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