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this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the … reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not find evidence for active …
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unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …
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propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the … unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born between 1940 and 1965 who were registered with any of the public … time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …
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Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using the American Time Use...
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In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different...
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abolition of an old-age pension scheme for women and the abolition of a pension after unemployment or part-time work. We focus … in occupations with higher job strain and, in case of the old-age pension for women, the effect on unemployment is larger …
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We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy...
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Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
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