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Grossman's Health Threshold and Retirement
Galama, Titus J.; Kapteyn, Arie; Fonseca, Raquel; … - 2009
The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on … the human capital framework of health provided by Grossman. They explicitly assume a functional form of the utility … consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. They argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210978
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Fair Labor Association
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2021
, discrimination, health and safety concerns, freedom of association and collective bargaining, wages and benefits, hours of work, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227296
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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080876
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Optimal Retirement Age
Forman, Jonathan Barry; Chen, Bing Yung-Ping - 2008
given what we now know about longevity, about health and work in old age, and about how pension policies influence … retirement decisions. This paper provides some background about demography, health, and retirement; summarizes how current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217136
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Partial retirement : effects on employment and implications for government budgets
Haan, Peter; Tolan, Songül; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 48, pp. 491-497
The demographic change is posing many challenges for government budgets. In the face of a shrinking work force, keeping the number of workers and thus pension contributors at the highest possible level is a key economic policy goal. This could be achieved if people retire from the work force...
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Retirement behaviour in Austria : incentive effects on old-age labor supply ; conference paper
Hanappi, Tibor Paul - 2014
-relevant information on the individual level, e.g. insurance records as well as complete earnings histories. Based on this data a …
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The introduction of disincentives for early retirement and its effect on labor market participation : conference paper
Kemptner, Daniel; Timm, Boenke; Holger, Luethen - 2014 - Preliminary draft
We evaluate the actual effectiveness of disincentives that have been introduced for early retirement in Germany. Therefore, we set up a detailed model of the German social security and tax system with special attention to the PAYG-pension system. Building on the fact that the institutional...
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How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach
Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa - 2017
We examine the behaviour of unemployed older workers up to five years prior to the point at which they can transition out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born...
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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021
The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...
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