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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018

implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …

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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab women in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha - 2020

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...

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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia

Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - 2021

possible reasons for this difference are ruled out: cross-country differences in health status and the age distribution among … that China can learn from Russia that it has a substantial potential for increasing employment among healthy people under …

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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia

Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

. Two possible reasons that are attributable to this difference are ruled out, namely cross-country differences in health … increasing employment among healthy people under 70. …

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To work, to retire - or both? : labor market activity after 60

Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

The Danish labor market follows the trend in other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. In Denmark, this increase has - until now - been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. Increasing labor force participation is related to both a decline in the...

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Leaving the labor market early in Sweden : learning from international experience

Bengtsson, Mats G.; König, Stefanie; Schönbeck, Simon; … - 2022

It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from the labour market. However, the regulations have become...

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Flexible Retirement

van Vuuren, Daniel J. - 2011

pension risk and provides insurance to workers facing health or productivity shocks. Flexible retirement and flexible pension …. Institutions often hamper employment past the ‘standard retirement age’. Moreover, the hiring rates of older workers are low and …

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