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Wages and ageing: is there evidence for the inverse-U profile?
Myck, Michał - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276038
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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U Profile"?
Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068799
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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?
Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761935
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How does subjective well-being evolve with age? A literature review
López Ulloa, Beatriz Fabiola; Møller, Valerie; … - 2013
relation between ageing and subjective well-being, i.e., how subjective well-being evolves across the lifespan. Because of the … studies do show either a U-shaped, inverted U-shaped or linear relation between ageing and subjective well-being. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293172
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Ageing and productivity: Introduction
Bloom, David E.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2013
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing … the economic effects of population ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293198
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LOS(T) in long-term care: Empirical evidence from German data 2000-2009
Häcker, Jasmin; Hackmann, Tobias - 2010
Using microdata, i.e. representative samples of 114,403 German long-term care dependants (LTCDs) observed from 2000 to 2009 we give a comprehensive insight into the length of stay (LOS) in long-term care (LTC). Furthermore, this paper evaluates the effects of longevity on the LOS thus revisiting...
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How are markets created? The case of Japan's silver market
Pascha, Werner; Storz, Cornelia - 2008
The paper discusses the conditions under which new markets are created, and tries to identify them by an empirical case study of Japan's silver market. It starts from the perspective that the source of competitive advantage under fundamental uncertainty lies in the integration of objective and...
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A life-span perspective on life satisfaction
Thieme, Paula; Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - 2015
The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301386
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2015
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...
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Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Norga, Jennifer; Thuy, Yannick; Van … - 2015
This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, we randomly assign activities undertaken by...
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