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This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed pensioners to receive a greater share of their pensions if they worked, resulting in a progressive...
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We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
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the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …
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time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …
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the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …
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from 1983 to 2016. The probability of work at or near the minimum wage increases substantially near retirement, and …. Consistent with increased earnings and delayed retirement, higher minimum wages decrease the number of Social Security … beneficiaries and amount of benefits disbursed. The minimum wage appears to increase financial resources for workers near retirement. …
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and accrual elasticities in individuals' retirement decisions. Next, we use these elasticities to estimate a dynamic … programming model of retirement decisions. Finally, we use the estimated model to examine the labor supply and welfare …
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data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …
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adult labor supply behaviors in Singapore. We first evaluate the impact of the Retirement and Re-employment Act (RRA) reform …
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close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
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