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Die Förderung der Beschäftigung Älterer steht auf der politischen Agenda. Wir benötigten angesichts des demografischen Wandels eine betriebliche Arbeitsmarktpolitik, die der Arbeitskräfteknappheit vorausschauend entgegenwirkt.

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    The value of pension reforms for late working life: evidence from Sweden (2023)

    Focacci, Chiara Natalie ; Kelfve, Susanne; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas ; Öylü, Gülin ;

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    Focacci, Chiara Natalie, Gülin Öylü, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel & Susanne Kelfve (2023): The value of pension reforms for late working life: evidence from Sweden. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 43, H. 13/14, S. 79-89. DOI:10.1108/IJSSP-02-2023-0038

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    "Purpose: Driven by the aim to increase the participation of older people in the labor force and to extend people's working lives, the Swedish Parliament passed a bill in 1998 to increase the pension eligibility age from 60 to 61 years and establish a notional defined-contribution (NDC) plan. In this article, the authors investigate the impacts towards the prolongation of working lives expected from such an intervention. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a multinomial probabilistic model based on Swedish registry data on the birth cohorts 1937–1938 (n  = 102,826) and observe differences in exit behaviour between eligible and non-eligible individuals. Findings: The authors find that the cohorts eligible to the pension reform exit the labor market at a later age compared to non-eligible cohorts at the 61-years cut-off. The authors also find that the effect persists in the long term. Furthermore, the authors find that both men and women are equally struck by the reform. Originality/value While there exist many descriptive reports and theoretical analyses on the costs and benefits of pension reforms, this study is the first one to empirically analyse the effect of the first European NDC pay-as-you go pension plan on the potential exclusion of old-aged workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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    Big five personality traits and retirement decisions (2022)

    Lucifora, Claudio ; Repetto, Martina;

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    Lucifora, Claudio & Martina Repetto (2022): Big five personality traits and retirement decisions. In: Labour, Jg. 36, H. 1, S. 1-28. DOI:10.1111/labr.12210

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    "We estimate the effect of the Big Five personality traits on the retirement decisions of individuals aged between 50 and 80 years in fourteen European countries, using wave 7 from the SHARE data. We investigate the probability of retirement and a measure of the distance between actual retirement and ordinary retirement age. Overall, we find that personality affects retirement decisions, and the effects are similar across gender. Openness to experience, conscientiousness and extraversion are generally associated with a delay in retirement decisions, whereas neuroticism anticipates the exit from the labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement (2022)

    Wikström, Ewa; Allard, Karin; Arman, Rebecka; Seldén, Daniel; Liff, Roy; Kadefors, Roland;

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    Wikström, Ewa, Karin Allard, Rebecka Arman, Roy Liff, Daniel Seldén & Roland Kadefors (2022): Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement. In: H. F. Erhag, U. L. Nilsson, T. R. Sterner & I. Skoog (Hrsg.) (2022): ¬A¬ Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing, S. 221-232. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-78063-0_16

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    "Throughout the industrialised world, societies are ageing. These demographic changes have created a political and societal focus on an extended working life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about how such changes can be successfully implemented within organisations. In this chapter, we discuss this lacuna and specifically focus on organisational capability. We highlight workplace conditions and practices that may inhibit or promote the retention of workers beyond the previous norm for retirement. The novelty of an organisational capability approach is that it highlights workplace conditions that enable older people to use their abilities to perform acts of value and to achieve a better quality of life and greater participation in society. Workplace resources, capabilities and functions form a dynamic pattern. Factors that influence the work abilities of older workers are related in complex interactions and not merely in the format of simple cause and effect. When looking at retirement from the perspective of older workers, we have focused on aspects such as the individual’s ability to control the retirement process. Central to Sen’s idea is that individuals have different conversion factors, which means that, even though two individuals may have access to the same resources, they do not necessarily have the capability to enjoy the same functions. For example, the probability that an older person will remain employed will partially depend on his or her health, human capital and type of job. But two seemingly similar individuals can nevertheless have very different chances of remaining employed because their employer has implemented very different age management policies, or simply because they have different attitudes towards older workers. Since organisational capability makes it possible to focus on the interaction between the individual’s resources and preferences and the opportunity structure existing at the workplace (meso level) and embodied in the retirement system (macro level), much of the discussion and many of the policies and practices concerning older people can be related to the concept of capabilities." (Author's abstract, © Springer) ((en))

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    The effect of negative income shocks on pensioners (2021)

    Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Willén, Alexander;

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    Johnsen, Julian Vedeler & Alexander Willén (2021): The effect of negative income shocks on pensioners. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2021,07), Bonn, 36 S.

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    "This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an institutional feature that caused differential and unexpected income losses among otherwise identical individuals in a sharp regression discontinuity design. We conclude that retired pensioners do not return to work despite income losses of up to seven percent of their annual income. The paper further shows that the negative income shock had no impact on the health of pensioners. At the height of an ongoing global crisis in which public pension funds are rapidly losing value, these results may be particularly important." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labor Market Participation of Older Workers in International Comparison (2021)

    Walwei, Ulrich ; Deller, Jürgen;

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    Walwei, Ulrich & Jürgen Deller (2021): Labor Market Participation of Older Workers in International Comparison. (IAB-Discussion Paper 16/2021), Nürnberg, 26 S.

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    "Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich aus einer international vergleichenden Perspektive mit Treibern und Hemmnissen der Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Älteren. Der Fokus der Studie richtet sich auf Länderbeispiele, die prototypisch für bestimmte Kontexte stehen. Ausgehend von unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen am Arbeitsmarkt und wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Regulierungen in Europa und benachbarten Ländern wurden mit Deutschland, Israel, Italien und Schweden vier Länder ausgewählt, in denen der Entwicklung und Situation älterer Beschäftigter am Arbeitsmarkt nachgegangen wird. Jedes der ausgewählten Länder steht für eine spezifische Konstellation, sei es, dass eine Trendwende erreicht wurde, ein langfristig hoher Beschäftigungsstand realisiert werden konnte oder anhaltende Probleme zu beobachten sind. Die Fallbeispiele befassen sich u.a. mit rentenpolitischen Reformen sowie arbeitsmarktpolitischen Ansätzen zum Management alternder Belegschaften. Sie zeigen, dass es keinen Königsweg zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktsituation Älterer gibt. Unabhängig von staatlichen Politiken kommt der Entwicklung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit über den Lebenszyklus große Bedeutung bei. Mit Blick auf zukünftige Entwicklungen sind geeignete betriebliche Praktiken für das Management alternder Belegschaften unverzichtbar. Entscheidend sind dabei insbesondere Initiativen, die auf ein lebenslanges Lernen und ein gesundes Arbeitsumfeld zielen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Substitution and spill-overs between early exit pathways in times of extending working lives in Europe (2020)

    Riekhoff, Aart-Jan ; Kuitto, Kati ; Palomäki, Liisa-Maria ;

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    Riekhoff, Aart-Jan, Kati Kuitto & Liisa-Maria Palomäki (2020): Substitution and spill-overs between early exit pathways in times of extending working lives in Europe. In: International social security review, Jg. 73, H. 2, S. 27-50. DOI:10.1111/issr.12237

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    "In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, inwieweit Instrumentensubstitution unter Möglichkeiten zum frühen Austritt in Europa zwischen 1995 und 2015 zum Einsatz kam. Anhand von aggregierten Eurostat‐Daten über Nichterwerbsquoten und Beschäftigungsquoten unter der Bevölkerung von 55 bis 64 Jahren in 19 europäischen Staaten analysieren wir Substitutionseffekte zwischen Austrittswegen und Gesamtausstrahlungseffekte in die Nichterwerbstätigkeit. Trotz eines starken Rückgangs des vorzeitigen Ausscheidens und des Anstiegs der Beschäftigungsquote von älteren Arbeitnehmern weisen die Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass Instrumentensubstitution insbesondere zwischen Frührente und Invalidität geläufig war. Die Abnahme des frühen Ausscheidens fiel mit erheblichen Ausstrahlungseffekten in Nichterwerbstätigkeit zusammen. Dabei war diese Ausstrahlung jedoch geringer, wenn der Zugang zu alternativen Instrumenten gleichzeitig erschwert wurde." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons)

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    Wage subsidies targeted to jobseekers with disabilities: subsequent employment and disability retirement (2018)

    Angelov, Nikolay; Eliason, Marcus ;

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    Angelov, Nikolay & Marcus Eliason (2018): Wage subsidies targeted to jobseekers with disabilities. Subsequent employment and disability retirement. In: IZA journal of labor policy, Jg. 7, S. 1-37. DOI:10.1186/s40173-018-0105-9

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    "In many countries, a non-negligible percentage of the working-age population has impairments that also entail reduced work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing the labour market inclusion among people with disabilities, such as targeted wage subsidies, are surprisingly few. In an attempt to fill this gap, we have studied how wage subsidies affect future labour market outcomes for jobseekers with disabilities, in terms of employment and disability retirement. By using inverse probability weighting applied to rich Swedish register data, we contrast participants in the wage subsidy program to observably similar non-participants during a 19-year period. We find that participation was associated with both positive and negative labour market outcomes. On the negative side, participants were less likely to have unsubsidised employment. On the positive side, leaving the labour market through the disability insurance program was somewhat less common among participants. Moreover, using a broader employment measure including subsidised jobs, the participants were found to be employed to a larger extent, which could be interpreted either as locking-in effects or as fostering labour market inclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Gewünschtes und erwartetes Renteneintrittsalter in Deutschland und Europa (2018)

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    Hess, Moritz (2018): Gewünschtes und erwartetes Renteneintrittsalter in Deutschland und Europa. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung, Jg. 73, H. 3, S. 228-242.

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    "In den letzten 25 Jahren hat es in Deutschland und Europa Bemühungen auf institutioneller und betrieblicher Ebene gegeben, ältere Arbeitnehmer länger im Berufsleben zu halten und so deren Beschäftigungsquote zu erhöhen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen dieser Reformen auf das gewünschte Renteneintrittsalter, das Alter, zu dem Ältere in Rente gehen wollen, und auf das erwartete Renteneintrittsalter, das Alter, zu dem sie realistisch glauben, dies zu tun. Die Ergebnisse, basierend auf mehreren Datensätzen (European Social Survey, Eurobarometer, Sozio-oekonomisches Panel, Deutsche Altersstudie), zeigen, dass sowohl das gewünschte als auch das erwartete zukünftige Renteneintrittsalter von älteren Arbeitnehmern in den letzten zehn Jahren gestiegen sind. Allerdings zeigen sich deutliche Unterschiede zwischen sozialen Gruppen. Während Hochqualifizierte eher glauben, ihr gewünschtes und erwartetes Renteneintrittsalter synchronisieren zu können, erwarten solche mit niedriger Bildung und geringem Einkommen, dass sie aus finanziellen Gründen länger arbeiten müssen, als sie wollen. Die Ergebnisse stützen somit Befürchtungen, dass die renten- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Reformen zu neuer sozialer Ungleichheit beim Rentenübergang führen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions (2018)

    Pavolini, Emmanuele ; Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin;

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    Pavolini, Emmanuele & Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (2018): Comparing occupational welfare in Europe: The case of occupational pensions. In: Social policy and administration, Jg. 52, H. 2, S. 477-490. DOI:10.1111/spol.12378

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    "The article provides an assessment to what extent reforms of occupational pensions (OP) have fostered a 'risk shift' or increased social protection dualism across countries. The essay focuses on workers, whilst previous research primarily analyzed provision for current pensioners. The empirical analysis confirms that in countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, increased private pension or (OP) provision does not necessarily lead towards social protection dualism and comprehensive risk shifts. Britain continues to be characterized by strong social protection dualism and entrenched social divides, creating 'social policy enclaves'. Divisions of welfare are also very likely to be a feature of the German pension system in the future. The latter two countries have witnessed clear risk shifts and processes of dualization. The pension systems in Austria, Italy, and Spain have not witnessed paradigmatic changes, and continue to be primarily based on public/statutory pension schemes. The idea that multi-pillarization in itself fosters major risk shifts and dualization has to be reconsidered. Under specific conditions, encompassing OPs can be functionally equivalent to public pension schemes. However, countries relying on voluntarism with regard to OPs coverage tend to witness processes of dualization." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Cumulative (dis)advantage? The impact of labour market policies on late career employment from a life course perspective (2015)

    Bennett, Jenny; Möhring, Katja ;

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    Bennett, Jenny & Katja Möhring (2015): Cumulative (dis)advantage? The impact of labour market policies on late career employment from a life course perspective. In: Journal of social policy, Jg. 44, H. 2, S. 213-233. DOI:10.1017/S0047279414000816

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    "We investigate the labour market situation of older individuals in Europe in relation to their previous employment history as well as the regulations relating to employment protection legislation and early retirement. Specifically, we look at the competing risks of early retirement and late career unemployment. The central research question is whether policy effects differ according to the characteristics of an individual's previous work history. We employ data for twelve European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARELIFE) and estimate multilevel regression models. The results show different mechanisms for the risks of unemployment and early retirement. Late career unemployment results from individual factors related to fragmented careers, marginal employment and short tenures. In the case of early retirement, we find the interplay of individual and policy factors to be crucial. Persons with consistent careers have an increased probability of early retirement, but only in countries with generous early retirement benefits. However, employment protection legislation appears to counteract early retirement for this group of individuals. We conclude that policy factors do not have uniform effects for older individuals, but should rather be viewed against the background of previous developments in individual career paths." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society (2015)

    Börsch-Supan, Axel; Litwin, Howard; Kneip, Thorsten; Myck, Michal; Weber, Guglielmo;

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    Börsch-Supan, Axel, Thorsten Kneip, Howard Litwin, Michal Myck & Guglielmo Weber (Hrsg.) (2015): Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society. Berlin: De Gruyter, 380 S.

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    "SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order to support policies for an inclusive society." (Publishers Abstract) ((en))

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    Arbeitslosigkeit und Frührente älterer Personen in Europa: die Rolle von Arbeitsmarkt- und Rentenpolitik aus der Lebenslaufperspektive (2015)

    Möhring, Katja ; Bennett, Jenny;

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    Möhring, Katja & Jenny Bennett (2015): Arbeitslosigkeit und Frührente älterer Personen in Europa. Die Rolle von Arbeitsmarkt- und Rentenpolitik aus der Lebenslaufperspektive. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Jg. 61, H. 4, S. 379-402. DOI:10.1515/zsr-2015-0403

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    "Wir untersuchen aus einer Lebenslaufperspektive die Arbeitsmarktsituation älterer Personen im internationalen Vergleich und beziehen dabei sowohl Frühverrentung als auch Arbeitslosigkeit ein. Zentrale Hypothese unserer Analyse ist, dass die Wirkung von Sozialpolitik auf die Beschäftigungschancen Älterer nicht einheitlich ist, sondern von der individuellen vorangegangenen Erwerbsbiografie abhängt. Datengrundlage ist der 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe', insbesondere die Lebenslaufdaten der dritten Welle (SHARELIFE, 2008/09) aus zwölf europäischen Ländern. Unsere Analysegruppe sind männliche Befragte ab 50 Jahren. Als kontextuelle Faktoren beziehen wir institutionelle Frühverrentungsanreize sowie Kündigungsschutzregelungen ein. Um Interaktionseffekte zwischen sozialpolitischen und individuellen Charakteristika zu schätzen, verwenden wir Mehrebenen-Regressionen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unterschiedliche Mechanismen für Arbeitslosigkeit und Frührente. Unterschiede im Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko Älterer sind vor allem auf individuelle Faktoren zurückzuführen; Personen mit vormals instabilen Erwerbsverläufen und epischer Beschäftigung sind besonders betroffen. Das Gegenteil trifft auf Frühverrentung zu: Personen mit stabilen Erwerbskarrieren in regulärer Beschäftigung weisen hierfür eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit auf Dieser Zusammenhang wird durch generöse Frühverrentungsmöglichkeiten zusätzlich verstärkt. Strikte Kündigungsschutzregelungen erhöhen dagegen die Beschäftigungswahrscheinlichkeit von Personen mit stabilen Erwerbsverläufen, allerdings nur, wenn die institutionalisierten Frühverrentungsanreize dem nicht entgegenwirken." (Autorenreferat, © De Gruyter)

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    How long and how much? Learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities (2015)

    Sjögren, Anna; Vikström, Johan;

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    Sjögren, Anna & Johan Vikström (2015): How long and how much? Learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 34, H. June, S. 127-137. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2015.03.009

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    "Employment and wage subsidies are used to combat long-term unemployment, yet there is little research to guide the design of such programs. Discontinuities in the design and implementation of wage subsidies under the Swedish New Start Jobs-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we study the effects on the probability of staying employed for those who find subsidized employment. Interestingly, the positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Determinants of early retirement preferences in Europe: the role of grandparenthood (2013)

    Hochman, Oshrat ; Lewin-Epstein, Noah;

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    Hochman, Oshrat & Noah Lewin-Epstein (2013): Determinants of early retirement preferences in Europe. The role of grandparenthood. In: International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Jg. 54, H. 1, S. 29-47. DOI:10.1177/0020715213480977

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    "Various family characteristics are acknowledged as important determinants of retirement preferences. Yet, the relevance of the third family generation - the grandchildren - has been largely overlooked. In this article we bring the association between grandparenthood and retirement preferences to the fore. We expect to find such a relationship for two main reasons: first, rising participation rates in the labor market, especially among mothers, increases the need for childcare which, in some countries, is only partially provided by the state. Second, for many people grandparenthood marks the transition to a new phase in the life-course, implying new role-identities. We thus expect grandparenthood to decrease anxieties associated with retirement and with the potential loss of one's role-identity as a working person. We test the association between grandparenthood and retirement preferences using data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The findings confirm that grandparenthood increases an individual's chances of looking forward to retiring early, thus supporting the claim that individuals' lives are linked to the lives of their family members. Contrary to expectations, the association of grandparenthood with retirement preferences is particularly strong in countries that provide extensive childcare support." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed (2012)

    Bennmarker, Helge; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Vikman, Ulrika ;

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    Bennmarker, Helge, Oskar Nordström Skans & Ulrika Vikman (2012): Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2012,07), Uppsala, 34 S.

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    "We estimate the effects of conditioning benefits on program participation among older long-term unemployed workers. We exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting where workers who exhausted their benefits received unchanged transfers if they agreed to participate in a work practice program. Our results show that job finding increased as a result of the shorter duration of passive benefits. The time profile of the job-finding effects suggests that the effects are due to deterrence effects during the program-entry phase. We find no evidence of wage reductions, suggesting that the increased job-finding rate was driven by increased search intensity rather than lower reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The transition from work to retirement (2011)

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    Eichhorst, Werner (2011): The transition from work to retirement. (IZA discussion paper 5490), Bonn, 25 S.

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    "The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of 'active ageing'. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and labor market policies can be seen as the core factors behind cross-national diversity. Hence, institutional change is crucial to explain structural changes. The paper tries to assess the role of supranational policy initiatives and national politicoeconomic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU member states which is still governed by the national political economy. Taking the German case as an example in point, the paper shows the dynamic interaction between policy changes, in particular in benefit systems and activation, and changes in the approach of firms and workers to early retirement. Policy changes influence actors' behavior in the medium run and open up opportunities for subsequent reforms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Do buy-outs of older workers matter?: estimating retirement behavior with special early retirement offers (2010)

    Hallberg, Daniel; Eklöf, Matias;

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    Hallberg, Daniel & Matias Eklöf (2010): Do buy-outs of older workers matter? Estimating retirement behavior with special early retirement offers. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 31, H. 3, S. 337-359. DOI:10.1108/01437721011050611

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    "This paper aims to look at model retirement behavior with a focus on early retirement where there is an option for 'buy-outs'. An employer can offer employees generous pension programs if the employees agree on early retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in doing so, estimates of the individuals' responses to financial incentives in a retirement decision are likely to be biased upward.
    The authors propose an estimation strategy where the retirement decision and the accesses to early retirement pension (ERP) offers are estimated in a simultaneous equation system, yielding unbiased estimates of the model parameters. They apply the model using detailed Swedish register data.
    The results indicate that the marginal effects in retirement probability with respect to a change in financial incentives is less pronounced if ERPs are accounted for. Further, results imply that the early retirement probabilities would decrease, depending on year, by 14-28 percent for males and 7-18 percent for females if ERP offers were absent.
    As the motives for early retirement pensions most likely stem from how the collective agreement occupational pensions are financed, this emphasizes the need for a debate on the preferable construction of these systems. This becomes particularly important in view of the increased old age dependency ratios that are expected in the near future.
    Although these offers have important policy implications they have received limited attention. This paper fills an important gap in the existing pension literature, and it analyzes early retirement and tries to assess the importance of special early retirement pension programs for these outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Ageing and unused capacity in Europe: is there an early retirement trap? (2009)

    Angelini, Viola; Brugiavini, Agar; Weber, Guglielmo;

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    Angelini, Viola, Agar Brugiavini & Guglielmo Weber (2009): Ageing and unused capacity in Europe: is there an early retirement trap? In: Economic policy, Jg. 24, H. 59, S. 463-508.

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    "We address the issue of how early retirement may interact with limited use of financial markets in producing financial hardship later in life, when some risks (such as long-term care) are not insured. We argue that the presence of financially attractive early retirement schemes in a world of imperfect financial and insurance markets can lead to an 'early retirement trap'. Indeed, Europe witnesses many (early) retired individuals in financial distress. In our analysis we use data on 10 European countries, which differ in their pension and welfare systems, in prevailing retirement age and in households' access to financial markets. We find evidence that an early retirement trap exists, particularly in some Southern and Central European countries: people who retired early in life are more likely to be in financial hardship in the long run. Our analysis implies that governments should stop making early retirement attractive, let retirees go back to work, improve access to financial markets and make sure long-term care problems are adequately insured." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Social security programs and retirement around the world: the relationship to youth employment. Introduction and summary (2009)

    Gruber, Jonathan; Wise, David A.; Milligan, Kevin;

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    Gruber, Jonathan, Kevin Milligan & David A. Wise (2009): Social security programs and retirement around the world. The relationship to youth employment. Introduction and summary. (NBER working paper 14647), Cambridge, Mass., 74 S. DOI:10.3386/w14647

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    "This is the introduction and summary to the fourth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social security incentives to retire and the proportion of older persons out of the labor force. The second phase documented the large effects that changing plan provisions would have on the labor force participation of older workers. The third phase demonstrated the consequent fiscal implications that extending labor force participation would have on net program costs-reducing government social security benefit payments and increasing government tax revenues. This volume presents the results of analyses of the relationship between the labor force participation of older persons and the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. Why countries introduced plan provisions that encouraged older persons to leave the labor force is unclear. After the fact, it is now often claimed that these provisions were introduced to provide more jobs for the young, assuming that fewer older persons in the labor force would open up more job opportunities for the young. Now, the same reasoning is often used to argue against efforts in the same countries to reduce or eliminate the incentives for older persons to leave the labor force, claiming that the consequent increase in the employment of older person would reduce the employment of younger persons. The validity of such claims is addressed in this volume." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Age and labour market commitment in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (2008)

    Hult, Carl; Edlund, Jonas;

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    Hult, Carl & Jonas Edlund (2008): Age and labour market commitment in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 22, H. 1, S. 109-128. DOI:10.1177/0950017007087419

    Abstract

    "This study examines age differences in non-financial employment commitment in two types of 'exit cultures'. Germany and Denmark represent the 'early'-exit culture where early retirement has become the norm. Sweden and Norway represent the 'late'-exit culture where labour market activity until advanced age is more common. The categorization of countries corresponds to the time for data collection (1997). The main question is whether suggested differences in exit culture are manifested in age differences in non-financial employment commitment. The claim that age differences in commitment relate to exit culture received some support. In the two early-exit countries, the probability for men to display low employment commitment was found to increase at the age of 43-54. Also women in these countries dropped in commitment but first at 55+. In the two late-exit countries there was no important loss in commitment related to the middle or old age groups." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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