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The Employment and Pensions Module in SHARE Wave 1

Croda, Enrica; Callegaro, Lisa - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2006

This paper documents the Employment and Pensions module in the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and … different aspects of the life of the elderly, ranging from health conditions to economic status. The Employment and Pensions … module is constructed to elicit information on labor force participation, earnings and other incomes such as pensions and …

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The Financial Circumstances of Elderly Canadians and the Implications for the Design of Canada’s Retirement Income System

Hamilton, Malcolm - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

retiring Canadian, average Canadians will need little in the way of occupational pensions or retirement saving to live … government pensions. …

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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement

Hutchens, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...

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The Debate about Mandatory Retirement in Ontario Universities: Positive and Personal Choices about Retirement at 65

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

The debate about mandatory retirement is fundamentally a moral issue, about human rights, but one strongly related to several major economic issues. Mandatory retirement is a form of age discrimination that seems to be strictly prohibited by section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights. But...

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Income Inequality Among Seniors in Canada: The Role of Women's Labour Market Experience

Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

disequalizing effects. Increases in women's access to public pensions have had important equalizing effects, while most of the …

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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for “active ageing” and the “Lisbon strategy” of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from...

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Pension Reforms and Women Retirement Plans

Boeri, Tito; Brugiavini, Agar - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008

eligibility to pensions indeed reduce the responsiveness of women to changes in pension rules. This explains why, contrary to a …

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Financing Pension: Don't Count on Anyone Else

Chateau, Jean; Chojnicki, Xavier - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2006) 256

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Europe's Demographic Evolution Through to the Year 2050

Sleiman, Rakhsat - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2003) 219

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Can Adult Education Delay Retirement from the Labour Market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2008

Several studies have suggested that education is associated with later retirement from the labour market. In this paper, we examine whether adult education, involving enrolees aged 42 or above, delays retirement to potentially increase labour force participation among the elderly. With Swedish...

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