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This paper quantifies the effect of a policy-induced sharp increase in retirement ages on input mix and economic … total labor costs at constant labor productivity and unit labor costs. The findings suggest rising institutional retirement …
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containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The … effect towards later retirement through lower replacement levels, it also implied a lower price on leaving the labor market … measured by Social Security Wealth, defined at each hypothetical retirement age, and a variable measuring the implicit tax …
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Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … older persons will increase the unemployment of youth. The fifth phase on "Historical Trends in Mortality and Health … extending the methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI …
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. In response to pension retrenchments implemented immediately, people close to retirement stay in the work force longer …
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job training programs in the United States. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages is difficult to study because of sample selection, a...
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findings are driven to some extent by the reduction in the maximum duration of unemployment insurance benefits in 2007, but … predominantly by making (early) retirement schemes actuarially fair from 2006 onwards. The increase in disability insurance's income …
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how social security incentives and particularly their changes over time can explain the retirement decision. We calculate … indicators of benefit entitlement and derive retirement incentive measures. Using micro-estimation techniques, we find that more … generous retirement provision contribute to earlier retirement. Counterfactual reform simulations show strongly incentivizing …
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The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...
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failed to actively elect a primary retirement plan were also far less likely to enroll in a supplemental retirement account …
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