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Disentangling retirement and savings responses
Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - 2020
In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth...
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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Health, financial incentives and retirement in Spain
Erdogan-Ciftci, Esen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; López … - 2008
We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … retirement. Unlike previous literature, we find that (i) financial incentives, when measured adequately, exert a greater impact … in determining retirement decisions. We also perform simulations of a recently enacted reform of pension incentives and …
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Retirement choices in Italy : what an option value model tells us
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2010
Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …
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Interactions between financial incentives and health in the early retirement decision
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … problems make older workers more responsive to financial incentives encouraging retirement (reinforcement proposition). We test … health events, proxied by unanticipated hospitalizations, to information on retirement decisions and actual incentives from …
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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, an equilibrium approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2018
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully funded occupational pension systems, and mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go. The specific mixture of the three systems we will call the pension composition....
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Joint retirement of couples : evidence from a natural experiment
Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2015
We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives ́probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch population. We employ an instrumental variable approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is...
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Self-employment around retirement age
Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010
incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to …
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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes
Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022
Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...
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