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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2015

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus - 2009

In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching estimates employment probability increases slightly,...

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Too old to work, too young to retire?

Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to...

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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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...

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole E. - 2012

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...

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Grandmothers' Labor Supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2017

The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...

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The Effect of Income on Mortality : New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link

Ahammer, Alexander - 2015

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant firm-specific wage components and use them as instruments for actual wages. While we do find...

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Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2021

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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