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Caregiving subsidies and spousal early retirement intentions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...
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Impacts of informal caregiving on caregiver employment, health, and family
Bauer, Jan M.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487520
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What effect does increasing the retirement age have on the employment rate of older women? : empirical evidence from retirement age hikes in Hungary during the 2000s
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2014
age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348302
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Older Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2020
The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns has changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855173
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Older Women : Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2010
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149612
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441976
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Is Working Longer in Jeopardy? Health and Labor Force Participation of Middle-Aged Europeans
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ferrari, Irene; Pasini, Giacomo; … - 2020
time using the European Labor Force Survey. We do not find any evidence for falling or stagnating employment rates and thus … no correlation between health and employment trends. Health does not seem to be a main driver in the decision whether to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098821
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The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation : Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model
Cai, Lixin - 2007
A concern when estimating the effect of health on labour supply is that health might be endogenous, and in particular that people might use poor health to justify non-participation. This would result in the effect of health being overestimated if health were treated as exogenous. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049425
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435130