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We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological extensions to better reflect the respective incentives faced by singles and couples. Our results show that a more comprehensive modelling of couples' incentives leads to very...
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This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy program to low pay workers, implemented in 1992. The...
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to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners … cohorts born at different times. We find that women's employment rates at age 60 increased by 7.3 percentage points when the … employment rates of the male partners also increased by 4.2 percentage points. The magnitude of these effects, and the results …
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This paper uses an impulse-response function approach to assess the magnitude and persistence of the effects of downturns on labour force participation for a sample of 30 countries over the period 1960-2008. Past severe recessions appear to have had a significant and persistent impact on...
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to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners … cohorts born at different times. We find that women's employment rates at age 60 increased by 7.3 percentage points when the … employment rates of the male partners also increased by 4.2 percentage points. The magnitude of these effects, and the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713947
In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to …, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the period when the female state pension age rose to age 62. Using … the same difference-in-differences methodology as before, we find that women's employment rates at ages 60 to 61 were …
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We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data allows us to distinguish between pension claims and job...
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: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4 percentage points for men and 8.5 percentage points for women due to … the reform. The employment response is driven disproportionately by full-time workers and self-employed men, and is larger …
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …
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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 evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring …
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