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In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may in fact lead to increases in productivity, even...
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substantial reforms, pressure on government spending linked to ageing populations (both on pensions and health expenditures), will … force and raising the level as well as widening the sources of individual provision of retirement income are recommended …
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Population ageing and growing deficit of Russian pension system place on the agenda an issue of increasing pension age …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we … find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest. …
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We argue that retirement from work may affect marital status according to the predictions of quite standard economic … models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage …
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It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while … the labour market. However, the regulations have become more restrictive in the last decade and early retirement usually … leads to a lower pension. In this article, we map options for early retirement in other countries. We have found five main …
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old-age retirement. The other estimated effects are also in line with our expectations. Given that the residual term not …
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old-age retirement. The other estimated effects are also in line with our expectations. Given that the residual term not …
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reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exitfrom the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in … hours of work is a useful measure topostpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with …
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