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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280148
This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057310
We use nationally representative panel data from Australia to consider the impact of retirement on individual locus of … causality via cohort-specific eligibility age for the Australian Age Pension. We show that retirement leads to increased … effects of retirement on health and subjective well-being, respectively. The impact of retirement on control beliefs varies …
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I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …
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This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large … three statutory retirement ages, although there is often no incentive or even a disincentive to retire at these thresholds … covering the universe of German retirees, and I exploit unique variation in financial retirement incentives as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861376
Earlier this year the results of the study ”old-age security in Germany 1996 (AVID 96)“ have been published. This study describes the future age-income-situation of the currently employed population. An essential element is the estimation of future individual working-biographies. This...
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
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How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …
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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …
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