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Pension rules and labour market mobility
Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2017
This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671038
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Pension rules and labour market mobility
Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans H.G.; Hochguertel, Stefan S. - 2017 - This version: June 2017
This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688514
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360371
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350412
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460938
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Non-cognitive skills at the time of COVID-19 : an experiment with professional traders and students
Angrisani, Marco; Cipriani, Marco; Guarino, Antonio; … - In: The Quarterly Journal of Finance : QJF 14 (2024) 2, pp. 1-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050175
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Does schooling causally impact non-cognitive skills? : evidence from elimination of social security student benefits
Sanginabadi, Bahram - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-27
A limited number of studies have investigated the impacts of education on non-cognitive skills, yet they offer mixed results. A few studies suggest no impact, but others report positive impacts of education on non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we apply the elimination of Social Security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168779
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The incentive effects of minimum pensions : minimum pension programs reduce poverty in old age but they can also reduce the labor supply of low-income workers
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - 2014
standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420305
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The causal effect of retirement on mortality : evidence from targeted Incentives to retire early
Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2013
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793087
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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
retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470896