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. Following the methodology proposed by Milligan and Wise (2012), which uses the cohort mortality rate as a proxy for overall … health status, we quantify the additional employment capacity of current older men in reference to the mortality …
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In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of … individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard deviation of life …-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and a decrease in the hours of work per period spent working. This result …
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We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering the entire population, we exploit variation at the newly created age-based eligibility threshold....
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Jahren erreichen. Dieser plötzliche Rückgang tritt erst nach Erreichen der Altersgrenze und erst nach der Umsetzung des OPA …
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We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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Life expectancies are rapidly increasing and uncertain in all countries in Europe. To keep pension systems affordable, policy reforms are to be implemented which will encourage individuals to work longer. In this paper we analyze the impact of working and living longer on pension incomes in five...
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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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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 …
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consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …
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