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COVID-19 private pension withdrawals and unemployment tenures

Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert; Watson, Timothy - 2022

This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...

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Personal Pensions with Risk sharing: Affordable, Adequate and Stable Private Pensions in Europe

Bovenberg, A Lans; Nijman, Theo E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The challenge has increased markedly in the last decades due to volatile financial markets, falling interest rates and the withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of...

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Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis

Antolín, Pablo; Stewart, Fiona - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2009

This paper discusses responses to current financial and economic crisis by regulators, supervisors and policy makers in the area of private pensions. These responses are examined in the light of international guidelines, best practices and recommendations to improve the design of private...

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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...

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Health, Pensions, and the Retirement Decision: Evidence from Canada

Schirle, T. - Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics - 2007

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I use an option value framework to examine the effects of health and employer provided pensions on retirement decisions. This study fills existing gaps in the literature by jointly modeling the impact of financial...

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Social Policies and Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of the Existing Evidence

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

such programs have "perverse" labor market effects, in particular discouraging participation and formal employment. After … poor, social assistance has no large significant effects on participation and overall employment, other than possibly among …

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The Effect of Employment Protection Rules on Firm Productivity - A Natural Experiment

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2013

In this paper I study the effect of employment protection rules on firm productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms to exempt two employees from the last-in-first-out rules. The reform targeted only firms...

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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil. Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …

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Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers?

Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). “Making-work-pay” policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...

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Do non-wage cost rigidities slow down employment? Evidence from Turkey

Ayhan, Sinem H. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This paper examines the role of non-wage cost rigidities in slowing down employment creation by assessing the effect of a policy aimed at fostering employment for women and young men introduced in Turkey in 2008. Exploiting a difference-in-difference-in differences strategy, I assess the...

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