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Can we afford to grow older? : a perspective on the economics of aging

Disney, Richard - 1996

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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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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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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. …

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Immigrants, household production and women's retirement

Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2013

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …

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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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Commitment in the household : evidence from the effect of inheritances on the labor supply of older married couples

Blau, David; Goodstein, Ryan - 2016

We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not subject to laws governing division of marital property at divorce, because it is not acquired...

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