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work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase … market scenarios. Delaying work-retirement transitions by even this amount would have large, positive economic and fiscal …
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If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … working to retired status has occurred. Using the Statistics Canada Longitudinal Administrative Databank, a 20 percent sample … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one's previous employment …
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labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from … form of supplementary pension cover than the employed. These lower retirement rates and lower degrees of pension cover …
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Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
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standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …
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In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …
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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...
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identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …
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