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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021
The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316657
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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P3, pp. 582-601
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals’ employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730119
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Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Prowse, Victoria; Haan, Peter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy?  To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009190181
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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112153
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064016
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647679
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Elasticities of labor supply and labor force participation flows
Cairó, Isabel; Fujita, Shigeru; Morales-Jiménez, Camilo - 2018
market states, the unemployment rate, and the labor force participation rate, while using values of elasticities consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971293
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289240
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299149
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295803