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Employment Effect of Means-Tested Program : Evidence from a Pension Reform in Chile
Troncoso, Pablo - 2022
facing a massive pension reform, especially in the case of a country with a high level of informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237357
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Could Mexico become the new "China"? : policy drivers of competitiveness and productivity
Dougherty, Sean M.; Escobar, Octavio R. - 2016
sluggish productivity improvements, particularly to determine how labour informality may have contributed. The study takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610937
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The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation : evidence from a natural experiment
Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - 2009
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901814
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The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2009
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155708
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278505
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442
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The impact of public transport expansions on informality : the case of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region
Moreno, Ana Isabel; Ramos, Frederico Roman - 2015
system on local informality rates for the SPMR between 2000 and 2010. We compare the average changes in informality in areas … informality decreased on average 15 percent faster in areas receiving new public transport infrastructure compared to areas that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476197
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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
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470896
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Pension reform and labor supply : flexibility vs. prescription
Hernæs, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473192
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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-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705582