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Self-employment around retirement age
Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
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Social Security, Labor Supply and Health of Older Workers : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Reform
Saporta Eksten, Itay - 2020
We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives,...
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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe
Heger, Dörte - 2014
Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …
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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation and Retirement : Some Evidence on the Role of Pensions and Social Security in the 1970's and 1980's
Anderson, Patricia M.; Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, … - 1999
This article estimates the effects of changes in pension plans and social security in the 1970s and 1980s on the steady state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the...
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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
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Bridge jobs in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of (Continental) European males aged 55 to 70 in the late 2000s. We find that only 14.6% of the workers in this sample moved from a career to a bridge job by the time of the interview, much less than in the...
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Health Status and Retirement Decisions for Older European Couples
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi; Labeaga Azcona, J. Maria; … - 2000
In this paper we use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to describe and analyse the dynamics of joint labour force behaviour of older couples for the EU12 countries. We focus on three main issues: the relevance of joint retirement across EU12 countries, the existence of...
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Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa - 2015
unemployment rate, their participation and employment rates are very low: 34% and 32%, respectively. We analyse whether this is due … of old-age benefits increases the probability of outflow from unemployment to inactivity, as do unemployment rate changes … more likely to leave the workforce compared to those who receive either unemployment benefits or social welfare benefits …
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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots -- The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert - 2014
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper provides detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical...
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