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Pension reforms and couples' labour supply decisions
Moghadam, Hamed M.; Puhani, Patrick A.; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2023
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben - 2019
In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. I find that informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053262
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601038
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Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896267
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277157
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322349
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601041
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293730
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status: Evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500139