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Are displaced workers now finished at age forty?

Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - In: Economic Review (2000) Q2, pp. 33-48

In recent years, the media has devoted considerable attention to the effects of downsizing and corporate restructuring on U.S. workers. Economists as well as the media have focused in particular on the plight of laid-off, or "displaced," middle-aged workers. Because many displaced workers incur...

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Explaining changes in the age distribution of displaced workers

Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2000

Using Displaced Worker Survey data, this paper examines changes in the age distribution of displaced workers during the 1983–87 and 1993–97 periods. Older workers comprised a significantly larger fraction of displaced workers during the later period. Potential explanations for this...

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Demographics, Social Security reform, and labor supply

Devine, Theresa J. - In: Conference Series ; [Proceedings] 41 (1997) Jun, pp. 77-95

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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States

Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study makes progress by focusing on India, which will be...

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Workforce skills across the urban-rural hierarchy

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M.; Stolarick, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

This paper examines differences in the skill content of work throughout the United States, ranging from densely populated city centers to isolated and sparsely populated rural areas. To do so, we classify detailed geographic areas into categories along the entire urban-rural hierarchy. An...

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How sensitive are individual retirement expectations to raising the retirement age?

de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier; Montizaan, Raymond - 2013

retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension agreement with the employer and employee … the expected retirement age by 3.6 months for employees born between 1954 and 1959 and by 10.8 months for those born after … 1959. This increase is reflected in a clear shift in the retirement peak from age 65 to ages 66 and 67 for the respective …

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Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labor Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

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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Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Chen, Zeyuan; Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015

Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement … retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%. …

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

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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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement

Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2013

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …

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