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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement : Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement and social welfare. The trade-off of optimal UI between consumption smoothing and moral hazard requires accounting for the entire early retirement system, which often includes...

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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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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

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

employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workersdisplaced due to firm closure with similar non …

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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Haller, Andreas - 2020

We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...

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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Staubli, Stefan - 2011

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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

Graf, Nikolaus - 2009

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …

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Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2018

We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the...

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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2010

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to withdraw from the workforce up to 3.5...

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Opening the Blackbox : How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Arni, Patrick P. - 2016

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...

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