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The effects of early retirement incentives on retirement decisions
Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla - 2019
This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a reform in the German public pension system that allowed individuals with a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 reform, individuals with 45 contribution years could...
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Old-age poverty : the household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: 11 February 2019
Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...
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Pension incentives and labor force participation : evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK
Giesecke, Matthias; Jäger, Philipp - 2019 - preliminary draft
We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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Who turns to entrepreneurship later in life? : push and pull in Finnish rural and urban areas : a paper to be presented at the 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Associ...
Tervo, Hannu - 2014
Age is an important factor in entrepreneurship. The paths into entrepreneurship at a later age may be varied. Self-employment in later life may be either a form of partial retirement or a career option. Older individuals may also be pushed into self-employment. The focus of this paper is on the...
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Unemployment benefits and wages : evidence from the German Hartz-Reform
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2012
Using the introduction of fixed long-term unemployment benefits in Germany in 2005 as a unique experiment we find … strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …
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Does it really get better with age? : life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus - 2019
This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age profiles of a novel continuous confidence measure and the probability of overconfidence, conditioning on personality traits (including the Big Five and optimism), economic...
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Spatial typology of the ageing process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 regions
Šotkovský, Ivan - 2014
The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...
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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by innovatively employing population policies in the early 1970s and the sex of the eldest child within families as plausibly exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show...
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Job loss and health spillovers in the family
Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jenstrom, Laura; … - 2020
A sizable literature documents that displaced workers suffer substantial negative consequences in the labor market and health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient...
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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation
Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019
reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany’s unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …
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