Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11618

Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11512

Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy: Period versus Cohort Approach

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Miguel Bravo, Robert Holzmann

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2021, 20 (2), 212 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11447

The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina M. Siflinger

published as 'The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood - Evidence from Sweden ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11410

Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts

Silvia Garcia Mandico, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen, Owen O'Donnell

published as 'Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11409

Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow

Tomi Kyyrä, Tuuli Paukkeri

published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11235

Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Peter Rupert, Giulio Zanella

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11199

Grandmothers' Labor Supply

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 1645 - 1689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11193

NDC Schemes and Heterogeneity in Longevity: Proposals for Redesign

Robert Holzmann, Jennifer Alonso-García, Heloise Labit-Hardy, Andres M. Villegas

published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer, R. Palacios. S. Sacchi (eds). Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension (NDC) Schemes, Volume 1: Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market, Chapter 14. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11144

Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes, Torun Österberg

published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11101

Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations

Neha Agarwal, Hans-Peter Kohler, Subha Mani

published as 'Path Dependence in Disability' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 329 - 354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11100

Working, Volunteering and Mental Health in the Later Years

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11062

Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces

Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Does low skilled immigration increase the education of natives? Evidence from Italian provinces' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11035

Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, Pablo Ibarrarán

published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10988

Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

revised version published as 'The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (4), 933 - 960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10957

Inclusive Recruitment? Hiring Discrimination against Older Workers

Nick Drydakis, Peter MacDonald, Vasiliki Bozani, Vangelis Chiotis

published in: Arenas, A., Di Marco, D., Munduate, L., Euwema, M.C. (Eds.), Shaping Inclusive Workplaces through Social Dialogue, New York: Springer Publishing, 2017, 87-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10779

Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians

Mark Borgschulte, Jacob Vogler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 167, 18 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10733

Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello

published as 'Does A Higher Retirement Age Reduce Youth Employment' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (106), 325 - 372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10731

The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China

Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston, Ang Sun

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 12, 225 -235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10681

Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Johannes Geyer, Clara Welteke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10680

How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach

Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10378

Addressing Longevity Heterogeneity in Pension Scheme Design and Reform

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Miguel Bravo, Robert Holzmann

published in: Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 6 (10), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10361

How Does Pension Eligibility Affect Labor Supply in Couples?

Rafael Lalive, Pierpaolo Parrotta

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 177-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10322

Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France

Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10270

Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru

Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado, Alan Sanchez

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (4), 1217-1236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10164

Demography of Global Aging

David E. Bloom, Elizabeth Mitgang, Benjamin Osher

published in: Jean-Pierre Michel (ed.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2017, 3 - 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10163

The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future

David E. Bloom, Dara Lee Luca

published in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10162

Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, Sanjay Mohanty, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10102

Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1467–148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10073

How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?

Sai Ding, Xiao-Yuan Dong, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10060

On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Miguel Bravo, Robert Holzmann

published in: Global Journal of Human Social Sciences-Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 33-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10037

Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China

Xi Chen, Tianyu Wang, Susan Busch

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 411-420.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10017

Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Garry F. Barrett, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10016

Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?

Xi Chen

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9944

Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Vibeke Jakobsen, Peder J. Pedersen

published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9835

Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

published as 'Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1317- 1341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9681

Greying the Budget: Ageing and Preferences over Public Policies

Luiz de Mello, Simone Schotte, Erwin R. Tiongson, Hernan Winkler

published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 70-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9621

The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, 53-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9619

Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617

Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Patrick Arni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9549

Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 49-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9482

Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements

Xi Chen

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 455-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481

Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly

Wei Huang, Mi Luo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9430

Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9393

Labor Force Activity after 60: Recent Trends in the Scandinavian Countries with Germany as a Benchmark

Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen

updated version published as 'Labour force activity after 65: what explain recent trends in Denmark, Germany and Sweden?' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50, 5–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9350

The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents

Xiang Ao, Dawei Jiang, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 126-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9343

Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to 'Retirement' of Rural Elders in China’s Minority Regions

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: B. Gustafsson, R. Hasmath. S. Ding (eds), Ethnicity and Inequality in China, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2021, 82-109. / published in Chinese, Beijing, 2017, 56-83.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9338

A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter

Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 19 (1), 103-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9329

The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey

Resul Cesur, Pinar Mine Gunes, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

published as 'The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in 'in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 74 - 93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9310

Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Patrick Hullegie, Pierre Koning