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Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job finding...
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Spain after retirement. To evaluate this coinsurance change we use a rich administrative dataset that links pharmaceutical … eligibility age for Social Security to control for the endogeneity of the retirement decision. Our most conservative results show …
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As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
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Policy makers have often argued that an additional benefit of facilitating early retirement is that it creates … discourage early retirement to counter the economic consequences of an aging population and, interestingly, the consequences for … workers in more depth, if only to put any concerns for adverse effects of later retirement to rest. To empirically investigate …
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retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or …
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A number of trends are changing the nature of social risks and increase the importance of human capital, adaptability and flexibility. This paper discusses the usefulness of a lifecourse perspective in developing proactive social policies that better fit the changing life cycles of individuals...
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This paper uses longitudinal test data to analyze the relation between retirement and cognitive development … appears to be persistent 6 years after retirement. Both effects of retirement on cognitive development are comparable to the … effect of a five to six-year age difference. We show that the effects of retirement on cognitive decline cannot be explained …
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retirement route for employees. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that job search requirements among unemployed older …
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Although from a life course perspective women’s retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events …, this study examines retirement intentions and behavior in relation to past and proximal preretirement family experiences … retirement. Women who repartnered after a divorce do not differ from continuously married women in terms of their retirement …
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We compare the performance of the commonly nominated default retirement investment option, the lifecycle fund, to …
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