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women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons …-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produce relevant background facts, and provide estimates of the …
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reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labour force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …
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reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …
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For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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a significant predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire. …
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While the average retirement age is higher in Japan, the retirement process has not been in-depth explored from … Japanese males and females using JSTAR (Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement) in 2007 and 2009. We provide some empirical … patterns of retirement. First, those who are aged 60 or over and retired stay retired two years later, either male or female …
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In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement … (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as … participants keep accumulating full pension rights. However, as participants become eligible for early retirement subsequently …
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In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement … (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as … participants keep accumulating full pension rights. However, as participants become eligible for early retirement subsequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625