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What effect does increasing the retirement age have on the employment rate of older women? : empirical evidence from retirement age hikes in Hungary during the 2000s

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of changing the retirement age on employment. Base on individual …-7.4 percentage point increase in the 45 per cent employment rate at the retirement age for women. Changes in the normal retirement … age do not seem to have such employment effect because increases in disability pension claims have counteracted them. …

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Paid work after retirement: Recent trends in Denmark

Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2012

The labor market in Denmark seems to follow the trend in a number of other countries of increasing labor force …

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Live longer and healthier : impact of pension income for low-income retirees

Malavasi, Chiara; Ye, Han - 2024

We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a German program subsidizing the pensions of low-wage workers. Using novel administrative data, we find that eligibility leads to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75)....

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Income and inequality in the long run : the case of German elderly

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - In: German economic review 11 (2010) 4, pp. 487-510

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Incomes and inequality in the long run : the case of German elderly

Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2008

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens for the period from 1978 to 2003, focussing on differences between retired and non-retired elderly and between elderly with residence in the Old and the New German Laender....

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Improving the pension system and the welfare of retirees in Israel

Giorno, Claude; Adda, Jacques - 2016

Israel is a young country with still dynamic population growth, but it is already beginning to face the consequences of population ageing. The pension system relies largely on mandatory private retirement saving, which will moderate the long-term fiscal impact. Yet, there are questions about the...

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Occupations Shape Retirement Across Countries

Sauré, Philip U.; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta - 2023

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...

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Economic perspectives on aging

Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil (contributor) - 2007

The aging of the American population will be a critical public policy issue in the years ahead. This paper surveys the recent literature on the economics of aging, with a special emphasis on government spending on the aged. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the proportion of the elderly in...

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A provocative perspective on population aging and old-age financial protection

Holzmann, Robert - 2013

Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic position and outlines key ingredients to make it a successful experience. Yet to turn this challenge...

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Differing prospects for women and men : young old-age, old old-age, and elder care

Shaw, Louis B. (contributor) - 2006

Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this...

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