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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001
1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …
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The incentive effects of minimum pensions : minimum pension programs reduce poverty in old age but they can also reduce the labor supply of low-income workers
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - 2014
standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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Home production and retirement in couples : a panel data analysis
Bonsang, Eric; Soest, Arthur van - 2015
We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …
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Self-employment around retirement age
Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010
incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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Lifetime labor supply in a search model of unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon; Broer, Dirk Peter - 2003
This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333255
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Incentives, shocks or signals : labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013
In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
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Is work bad for health? : the role of constraint vs choice
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - 2014
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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Labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK from age 60 to 62
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2014
In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...
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Older workers and working time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
a significant predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786943