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This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can...
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This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply. Using panel data for the period 1991ndash;2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can freely reduce working hours with their...
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private pension wealth, and fewer years in retirement to draw upon their private pension resources. There have been changes …
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predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire …
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For the last two decades, the increase of employment among individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper focuses on the case of Belgium, France, Germany, and The Netherlands over the period 1997–2011. First, we provide descriptive...
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retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the individuals we study, the expected present value of benefits was held …
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Data from the Health and Retirement Study indicate that hours constraints are a common feature of jobs held by workers … nearing retirement. We present a simple model that predicts that workers who are not free to lower their usual hours of work … various specifications, support this prediction. The amount by which being hours constrained is estimated to raise retirement …
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