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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 underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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An examination of the effects of wealth and earned income on the decision to retire in the UK
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of financial wealth and earned income on the retirement decision using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. The estimation results from a random effect dynamic probit model show that housing wealth has virtually no impact on the decision to...
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The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire : A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement
Bender, Keith A. - 2014
This paper estimates the propensity to retire and the persistence of remaining retired once the decision to retire has been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth...
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...
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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2021
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics … allowance is explicitly made for the possibility of both workplace and occupational segregation across each group. Individual … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking …
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Employment of people with a history of sickness absence
Johansson, Gun; Pozo, Cecilia Orellana; Möller, Jette; … - 2018
This register-based follow-up study focuses on the association between workplace characteristics and recruitment of … people with a history of sickness absence. The aim was to study whether recruitment differs with regard to workplace sector …
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Late-life work and well-being : flexible retirement may be one solution to the challenges of unemployment, aging populations, and public pension burdens
Graham, Carol - 2014
Flexible work time and retirement options are a potential solution for the challenges of unemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable pensions systems around the world. Voluntary part-time workers in Europe and the US are happier, experience less stress and anger, and are more satisfied...
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A new model for interdependent durations
Honoré, Bo E.; Paula, Áureo de - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 1299-1333
This paper introduces a bivariate version of the generalized accelerated failure time model. It allows for simultaneity in the econometric sense that the two realized outcomes depend structurally on each other. Another feature of the proposed model is that it will generate equal durations with...
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Labour supply of older people in advanced economies : the impact of changes to statutory retirement ages
Geppert, Christian; Guillemette, Yvan; Morgavi, Hermes; … - 2019
A decomposition of changes to participation rates of 55-to-74 year-olds between 2002 and 2017 based on an estimated equation attributes more than two thirds of the median increase (of 10.9 percentage points) to rising life expectancy and educational attainment. About 1 percentage point is...
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Do defined contribution pensions correct for short-sighted savings decisions? : evidence from the UK
Ven, Jeroen van de - 2011
Estimates for a structural model of savings and labour supply calculated on UK field data support the hypothesis of quasi-hyperbolic discounting. The estimated model indicates that a DC pension encourages increased saving and labour supply prior to pension age, and substantially reduced labour...
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