Narrow search
Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Cover Image
Retirement choices in Italy : what an option value model tells us
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2010
Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382043
Cover Image
Interactions between financial incentives and health in the early retirement decision
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … problems make older workers more responsive to financial incentives encouraging retirement (reinforcement proposition). We test … health events, proxied by unanticipated hospitalizations, to information on retirement decisions and actual incentives from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648295
Cover Image
Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts
Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807763
Cover Image
Unravelling hidden inequities in a universal public long-term care system
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Hernández-Pizarro, Helena M; … - 2019
We investigate whether publicly subsidized long-term care (LTC) is allocated according to needs, independently from income, using administrative data from all applicants for public LTC in Catalonia, from 2011 to 2014. We measure the level of horizontal inequity in subsidies to compensate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979501
Cover Image
Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303594
Cover Image
Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2022
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468321
Cover Image
The importance of financial incentives on retirement choices
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2008
This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction …; when employees become eligible for pension benefits the change in financial incentives they experience is so high that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376456
Cover Image
Retirement choices in Italy : what an opinion value model tells us
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670050
Cover Image
The importance of financial incentives on retirement choices : new evidence for Italy
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739069