The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...

This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessedby its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution ofthe “contributory principle” on which it was originally based. It argues that thisdecline is not an accident: under governments of...

We present a general, dynamic model of within-season harvesting competition in a sherymanaged with individual transferable quotas. Markov-Perfect equilibrium harvesting andquota purchase strategies are derived using numerical collocation methods. Our approachallows direct examination of harvest...

The Iowa Board of Nursing licensing database for Registered Nurses (RNs) contains information on Registered Nurses who have renewed their licenses including age, race, gender, education, and location of employment. It also contains comparable information on nurses who opted not to renew at the...

This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the distribution of human capital investments and the returns to those investments in developing countries. It then examines recent evidence regarding which policies can induce increased human capital investments in the most efficient manner, using...

Many countries around the world have large public pension programs with signif-icant cross-cohort redistribution. This paper provides a rationale for such programsin a lifecycle framework with search and matching frictions in the labor market. Inthe model, public pension programs alter the age...

Der demographische Wandel – das Altern und Schrumpfen der Bevölkerung, insbeson-dere der Erwerbsbevölkerung – gehört zu den zentralen gesellschaftspolitischen Heraus-forderungen (Kaufmann 2004), mit denen sich das IAT seit längerem auseinandersetzt.1 Einen wesentlichen Komplex dieser...

Die höhere Erwerbstätigkeit im Alter ist maßgeblich auf die gestiegene Erwerbsbeteiligungvon Frauen zurückzuführen: im Vergleich zu Männern weisen sie in allen Alterskategoriendeutlich höhere Beschäftigungszuwächse auf. Diese resultieren jedoch zu einemerheblichen Teil aus der Zunahme...

Zwischen 1996 und 2003 steigt die Erwerbstätigenquote in allen Altersstufen zwischen50 und 65 an; dementsprechend nimmt der Anteil der Rentenbezieher undder sonstigen Nichterwerbstätigen ab.Die höhere Erwerbsbeteiligung von Älteren ist zum Teil auf die im Zeitverlauf wachsendeTeilzeitarbeit...