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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380941
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713947
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385004
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Effectiveness of early retirement disincentives : individual welfare, distributional and fiscal implications
Bönke, Timm; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2016
effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440834
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Actuarial neutrality and financial incentives for early retirement in the Austrian pension system
Kucsera, Dénes; Christl, Michael - 2016
that financial incentives for early retirement stem mainly from the Austrian tax system and not from the pension system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528214
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What are the health effects of postponing retirement? : an instrumental variable approach
Hagen, Johannes - 2016
This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542473
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Effects of changes in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt : regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - 2015
retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470896
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Pappa Ante Portas : the retired husband syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - 2014
employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387882
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The effect of increasing the state pension age to 66 on labour market activity
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; O’Brien, Laurence - 2022
We study the effect of an increase in the UK state pension age from 65 to 66, a high level internationally, on labour market activity. Despite there being limited financial incentives to retire at the state pension age, we find large effects: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822196
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health - evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705582