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Demographic change in cities : Trends, challenges and insights from G7 economies
Burgalassi, David - 2024
Demographic change brings complex challenges to the economic, social, and environmental systems of cities, with its asymmetric, overlapping, and compounded impacts across people and places. This paper analyses the main demographic trends and challenges in cities across OECD countries, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567909
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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms
Milligan, Kevin S.; Wise, David A. - 2011
Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043291
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Pension Provision : Government Failure Around the World
Booth, Philip - 2009
This monograph surveys the results of government intervention in the market for retirement income provision throughout … its best to crowd out private initiative, but, where they are allowed to, families make provision for retirement in all … provision for their retirement. So-called 'market failure' will always ensure that the result is imperfect. But, by comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158842
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
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Occupations shape retirement across countries
Sauré, Philip; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; … - 2023
We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251290
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Retirement Age Across Countries : The Role of Occupations
Sauré, Philip U.; Zoabi, Hosny - 2011
Cross-country variation in effective retirement age is usually attributed to institutional differences that affect … its average effective retirement age. Using U.S. Census data we infer the average retirement age by occupation, which we … then use to predict the retirement age of 38 countries, using the occupational distribution of these countries. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176819
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Occupations Shape Retirement Across Countries
Sauré, Philip U.; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta - 2023
We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358043
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The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior : Introduction and Summary
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Coile, Courtney - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The project was launched in the mid 1990s and was motivated by decades of … program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly correlated with the labor force behavior of … reforms of retirement incentives and employ micro-econometric methods in order to study whether the correlation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447300
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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation
Peeters, Marga - 2012
using the labour market space by, for instance, working more hours or increasing the retirement age, as this will alleviate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114462
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What Drives Differences in Inequality Across Countries?
Szekely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 2001
This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the importance of individual decisions, such as fertility, mating, labor force participation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136646