IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3521

Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

John P. Martin, Edward Whitehouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3396

Arnaud Chéron, Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31, 843-882

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3248

Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson, Edward Palmer

revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2986

Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model

David M. Blau

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 35-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2872

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2868

How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2847

Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2616

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Niku Määttänen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2597

Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Arnaud Chéron, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504

How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2492

Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland

Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2354

The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers

Lennart Flood, N. Anders Klevmarken, Andreea Mitrut

published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2273

Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211

Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173

An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2171

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1967

Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1831

Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara, Paola Profeta

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1824

Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006