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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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retirement. This paper evaluates the causal effects of this reform on labor force participation and exit to retirement. We use …
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retirement. This paper evaluates the causal effects of this reform on labor force participation and exit to retirement. We use …
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To what extent does hours flexibility in career employment impact the retirement process? Workplace flexibility … impact on the timing of retirement. Alternatively, hours flexibility in career employment could lead to longer working lives … hours flexibility in career employment impacts the retirement patterns of older Americans. We use data on three cohorts of …
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relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the … early retirement behavior in three periods (pre-liberalization, announcement, and implementation) for three groups of …, and that the employment of young (30-years old) male workers increases. The distribution of wages by age is instead …
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Early retirement from the labour force has become standard practice for most employees in the industrialised world …. However, as a result of the rising costs of early retirement schemes, curbing the outflow of older workers from the labour … force has become a central policy objective. Early retirement reforms under which benefits are financed on a more …
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percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 …This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers …. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 …
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Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 …
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This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the … comprehensive microsimulation model of the Austrian pension system is developed and applied to calculate retirement benefit …
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Since at least the 1990's, older workers' labor force participation (LFP) and migration responses have been trending in opposite directions, counter to conventional wisdom in labor economics. One explanation could be that diverging housing prices across regions suppresses migration, while also...
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