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focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …
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This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and the value of older workers in Germany. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...
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regression discontinuity methods on two nationally representative data sets yields a retirement elasticity of 0.3. Men and women … respond at different margins of labor supply but with similar overall effect. Despite retirement incentives being …
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We examine within a life-cycle set-up the choice of health and retirement. Health care contributes to a reduction in … both mortality, determining the need to accumulate retirement wealth, and in morbidity, determining the disutility of work …. The retirement age affects health through the value of survival and the value of morbidity reductions. We compare the …
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We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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intensity with the aging of the population in industrialized countries. However, an increase in retirement age may create …) retirement on individual inpatient and outpatient healthcare expenditure in Austria. We use comprehensive labor market and … retirement data from the Austrian Social Security Database combined with detailed information about individual inpatient and …
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Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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