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This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …
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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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The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...
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In China, the employment rate among middle-aged and older urban residents is exceptionally low. For example, 27% of 55 … investigates potential explanations of this low level of employment in urban China. I document the stylized fact that a majority of … pension age from the status-quo to 60 would raise the employment rate of 50-59 year old women by 28 percentage points. …
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Baby boomer professional women : who are they? -- Family influences -- Building careers in an era of change -- At the point of transition : individual strengths and concerns -- The confidence of a cohort -- "What's new?" -- Why are the stories of baby boomer women important? -- What are the...
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