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Partners' leisure time truly together upon retirement
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 12, pp. 1-19
Externalities in leisure are considered an important reason for partners' joint retirement. This study quantifies the … extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time "together" at retirement. Exploiting legal retirement age in France …, we identify the effect of retirement on partners' hours of leisure, distinguishing leisure hours spent together or not …
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The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply : Evidence from Japan
Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of increasing the eligibility age for public pension on workers' retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848177
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Do more equal slices shrink the cake? An empirical investigation of tax-transfer reform proposals in Italy
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar - 2003
A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of welfare may change, where the household-specific measures of welfare capture the value of income as well as the value of leisure. A better-designed...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Mothers' labour market participation: Do grandparents make it easier?
Arpino, Bruno; Pronzato, Chiara D.; Tavares, Lara P. - 2012
Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically,...
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001
1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …
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The incentive effects of minimum pensions : minimum pension programs reduce poverty in old age but they can also reduce the labor supply of low-income workers
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - 2014
standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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Self-employment around retirement age
Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010
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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Incentives, shocks or signals : labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013
In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
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