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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
This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis benefits from substantial variation in pension eligibility...
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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...
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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2021
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics … allowance is explicitly made for the possibility of both workplace and occupational segregation across each group. Individual … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316862
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Incentives, shocks or signals : labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013
In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713947
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Labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK from age 60 to 62
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2014
In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...
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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha - 2020
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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Gender Retirement Gap
Garnick, Diane - 2017
Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123705
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How Does Increasing the Early Retirement Age for Women Affect the Labour Supply of Women and Their Husbands?
Cribb, Jonathan - 2014
In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056825
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Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2016
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625
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Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2015
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449304