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Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees....
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of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time – between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women – especially those … in lower-wage jobs – often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …
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retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men – especially those in lower-wage jobs – seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …
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We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel … data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut …
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possibly lower income and more leisure time in full-retirement, and for the economy, it is a potential policy tool to keep …In the traditional retirement scenario, individuals work full-time until a given age and then stop working abruptly. In … the alternative partial retirement scenario, individuals work part-time for several years before they stop working. For …
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The many facets of retirement have been studied widely by economists. However, the effect of retirement on marriage … stability has been ignored in the literature. Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual time allocation that may … transition into retirement. We study the effect of retirement on marriage outburst rates using observations on over 200 000 …
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Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and …
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-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly …
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-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using …-side explanation for the frequently observed discrete drop from full-time work to complete retirement. …
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