Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate theeffect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workersdisplaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a differencein-difference strategy to analyze employment and earnings of older relative to prime-ageworkers in the displacement and non-displacement groups...

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Year of publication:	2007-10-01
Authors:	Ichino, Andrea ; Schwerdt, Guido ; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf ; Zweimüller, Josef
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitsfähigkeit \| Betriebsschließung \| plant closures \| Altern \| Ageing

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Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3110 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; J65 - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Leasing, Factoring. Special cases of financing ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; AUSTRIA
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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