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planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a …-production services. Immigrant labor has increasingly become a substitute for women labor in those services. Their presence, therefore …
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-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement …This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual … data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis …
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would enable Japan to better utilise its human capital. Abolishing the right of firms to set mandatory retirement … discourage the employment of women, namely the lack of work-life balance and shortages of high quality and affordable childcare … and long-term care for the elderly. Fighting discrimination and gender stereotypes is also important to allow women to …
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older women, are doing a great deal of work caring for others. In this case, policies that aim to increase overall market …
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In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 … to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners … cohorts born at different times. We find that women's employment rates at age 60 increased by 7.3 percentage points when the …
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In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to … the same difference-in-differences methodology as before, we find that women's employment rates at ages 60 to 61 were …. However, we continue to find little statistically significant evidence of differences in response among women with different …
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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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