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Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed visa-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Self-Employment Around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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The causal effect of partial retirement on older workers' labor force participation

Schrader, Rebecca - 2021

In this study, I investigate the effect of partial retirement at the firm level on older workers' labor participation. Thereby, I contribute to the controversial debate about the effects of partial retirement. Using detailed administrative employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit the...

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Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off : impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy

Andersen, Asbjørn Goul; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2020

We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income inequality. Causal effects are identified based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement...

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010

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The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply : Evidence from Japan

Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of increasing the eligibility age for public pension on workers' retirement decisions, focusing on recent Japanese public pension reforms. In Japan, the pensionable age for Employees' Pension Insurance benefits gradually increased from 60 to 65 for males over...

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2011

unemployment insurance program. Specifically, the unemployment rate increased by 10 percentage points among men and 11 percentage …

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What effect does increasing the retirement age have on the employment rate of older women? : empirical evidence from retirement age hikes in Hungary during the 2000s

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual data from Hungary, a country where a number of hikes increased the retirement age between 1997 and 2009, this analysis benefits from substantial variation in pension eligibility...

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Work less but stay longer : mature worker response to a flexibility reform

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Piggott, John; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020

Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the eligibility age of retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the...

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