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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233731
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703163
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From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics
Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid jobs and not working. Using German panel data I estimate dynamic multinomial logit panel data models with random effects taking the initial conditions problem and potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822072
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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001
Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822200
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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003949
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Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform
Bruno, Giovanni S. F.; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705572
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889998
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Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income
Fernández-Val, Iván; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for the endogeneity of income and the presence of individual heterogeneity. We examine a panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959742
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Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples
Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper studies the labour force participation dynamics of older couples in the United States. Longitudinal data from the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by considering both spouses’ behavior provide additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762321