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The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply : Evidence from Japan
Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of increasing the eligibility age for public pension on workers' retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848177
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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Working Horizon and Labour Supply : The Effect of Raising the Full Retirement Age on Middle-Aged Individuals
Carta, Francesca; de Philippis, Marta - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of raising the statutory full retirement age on the labour force participation of … large heterogeneous increase in the age eligibility for retirement caused by an unexpected Italian pension reform. We detect …, who choose to postpone their retirement decision …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Why Forcing People to Save for Retirement May Backfire
Butler, Monika; Huguenin, Olivia; Teppa, Federica - 2021
the retirement income is deemed sufficient and the pension plan avails withdrawal of benefits. We provide evidence using … findings suggest that affordability is a key determinant in the retirement decisions. The higher the accumulated pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318558
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Age-targeted income taxation, labor supply, and retirement
Gustafsson, Johan - 2021
cycle labor supply, retirement timing, and savings. I develop a structural model in continuous time where the life-cycle of … for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage … a representative agent is divided into three distinct phases: pre-treatment, post-treatment, and retirement. Solutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495695
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Does the early release of retirement savings prolong labor market participation for workers approaching retirement? : evidence from Australia's "Transition to Retirement Income Str...
Carter, Andrew - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-36
older workers (aged 55-65 years) by offering early access to a worker's compulsory retirement savings (superannuation …Australia's "Transition to Retirement Income Streams" (TRIS) program aims to prolong labor force participation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328822
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398074
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398790
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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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