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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 : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Informal care and labour force participation among middle-aged women in Spain
Casado Marin, David; Garcı´a-Go´mez, Pilar; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 1, pp. 1-29
reveal the existence of non-negligible costs in terms of foregone employment for carers who live with the dependent person … employment. Nonetheless, there seems to be no contemporaneous employment effects associated to either starting or ending an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355604
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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia : the role of spousal participation
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2013
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792967
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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; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 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/10010337413
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To work, to retire - or both? : labor market activity after 60
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
The Danish labor market follows the trend in other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. In Denmark, this increase has - until now - been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women. Increasing labor force participation is related to both a decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251395
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates : A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101871
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Are Firms Willing to Employ a Greying and Feminizing Workforce?
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019
Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older … evidence that lifting the overall senior employment rate in the EU requires significantly raising that of women older than 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871853
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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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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