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Gender and the total work of older workers in Asia

Donehower, Gretchen - 2023

In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people's labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do-unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and...

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The incentive effects of minimum pensions : minimum pension programs reduce poverty in old age but they can also reduce the labor supply of low-income workers

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi - 2014

standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

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Is work bad for health? : the role of constraint vs choice

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - 2014

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...

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Older workers and working time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013

a significant predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire. …

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Immigrants, household production and women's retirement

Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2013

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

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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Commitment in the household : evidence from the effect of inheritances on the labor supply of older married couples

Blau, David; Goodstein, Ryan - 2016

We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not subject to laws governing division of marital property at divorce, because it is not acquired...

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Diversity of labor supply incentives and retirement : evidence from Ireland

Raab, Roman; Gannon, Brenda - In: Journal of economic policy reform 17 (2014) 4, pp. 303-321

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Pension incentives and the retirement decisions of couples

Atalay, Kadir; Barrett, Garry F. - 2016

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …

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