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Retirement: Does individual unemployment matter? Evidence from Danish panel data 1980 - 2009
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2012
The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282550
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Retirement : Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980-2009
Filges, Trine - 2012
The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106634
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Retirement: does individual unemployment matter? : evidence from Danish panel data 1980 - 2009
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2012
The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537650
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Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980–2009
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper studies the impact from variations in unemployment on retirement among older workers. We integrate … unemployment variations with early retirement programs and other pathways out of the labor force. The paper describes retirement … unemployment on the retirement decision. Unemployment is found highly significant and quantitatively important for the retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279345
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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries
Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2014
The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins of their welfare states that can be traced to a unique set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to participate in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252633
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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries
Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2014
The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins and organization of their welfare states, which can be traced to a set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436817
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Strong hysteresis due to age effects
Chen, Yu-Fu; Gylfi Zoega - 2010
Strong hysteresis in the labour market (see Cross, 1995) requires workers to be heterogeneous in terms of the cost of hiring and firing. We show how such heterogeneity arises naturally in labour markets due to differences in workers’ age by showing that both the hiring and the firing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936605
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A nonparametric analysis of regional unemployment dynamics in Britain
Bianchi, Marco; Gylfi Zoega - 1997
This paper estimates the probability distribution of relative county unemployment in Britain for the years 1981 … unemployment transition is defined as a move between a tail and the centre of the distribution (and vice versa). We calculate …) unemployment regions have a higher probability of entering a state of lower (higher) unemployment than a state of higher (lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009660376
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On the causes of Brexit
Ágúst Arnórsson; Gylfi Zoega - 2016
We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union and evaluate the reasons for the results. We find that regions where GDP per capita is low, a high proportion of people have low education, a high proportion is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523724
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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption
Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022
This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287969