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212 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15377
Take-up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits
Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz, Andrea Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15327
Leaving the Labor Market Early in Sweden – Learning from International Experience
Mats Bengtsson, Stefanie König, Simon Schönbeck, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289
De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15239
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
Jinyang Yang, Xi Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15170
Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory
Espen S. Dahl, Øystein Hernaes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15100
Progressing Towards Efficiency: The Role for Labor Tax Progression in Reforming Social Security
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Oliwia Komada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14908
Reforms of an Early Retirement Pathway in Germany and Their Labor Market Effects
Regina T. Riphahn, Rebecca Schrader
forthcoming in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14805
Efficiency versus Insurance: Capital Income Taxation and Privatizing Social Security
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Oliwia Komada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14765
The Political (In)Stability of Funded Social Security
Roel M. W. J. Beetsma, Oliwia Komada, Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2021.104237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14648
Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform
Rong Zhu
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, 674–690
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14469
Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
Matthias Giesecke, Philipp Jaeger
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 203, 104516
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14411
Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, Lisa Windsteiger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14394
Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14063
Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14018
Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies
Giam Pietro Cipriani, Tamara Fioroni
forthcoming in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13990
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang, Juha Tuomala
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13939
How Effective are Matching Schemes in Enticing Low-income Earners to Save More for Retirement? Evidence from a National Scheme
Marc K. Chan, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins, Andrew Carter, Hang To
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13932
Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13900
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule
Andreas Ravndal Kostol, Andreas S. Myhre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13876
Pension and Health Services Utilization: Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China
Shanquan Chen, Xi Chen, Stephen Law, Henry Lucas, Shenlan Tang, Qian Long, Lei Xue, Zheng Wang
Published in: BMC Health Services Research 20, 1008 (2020).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772
Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses
Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13756
Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help
Sébastien Fontenay, Ilan Tojerow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13675
Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, online first, 26 May 2021: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12449
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13539
Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13537
The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement: Active vs. Passive Decisions
Rafael Lalive, Arvind Magesan, Stefan Staubli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13403
Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis
Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13399
(In)Efficiency of Employment Offices: A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?
Katharina Dyballa, Kornelius Kraft
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13263
Social Security, Labor Supply and Health of Older Workers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Reform
Itay Saporta-Eksten, Ity Shurtz, Sarit Weisburd
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13258
Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Robert Palacios, David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13184
Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?
Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh
revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (4), 1783-1794
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
published in: World Development, 2020, 134 (104967).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13048
Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence
Alexander M. Danzer, Lennard Zyska
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13042
Public-Sector Compensation over the Life Cycle
Pedro Maia Gomes, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12982
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
Andres Dean, Sebastian Fleitas, Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12918
Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off: Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy
Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102050
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12909
Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
Bernard M. S. van Praag, J. Peter Hop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12815
Social Security Expansion and Neighborhood Cohesion: Evidence from Community-Living Older Adults in China
Elizabeth Bradley, Xi Chen, Gaojie Tang
forthcoming in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12791
The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours
revised version published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 419-452 [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12790
Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms
Olga Malkova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12669
Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14 (100204).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12502
Does Tax-Benefit Linkage Matter for the Incidence of Social Security Contributions?
Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda, Julien Grenet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12442
Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics
Ronald D. Lee
forthcoming in: a Palgrave volume on Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, edited by Robert Cord
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12272
Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Magda Malec
forthcoming in: Population and Development Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12263
Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing
Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Anya Samek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12244
Endogenous Demographic Change, Retirement and Social Security
Giam Pietro Cipriani, Tamara Fioroni
forthcoming in: Macroeconomic Dynamics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12221
NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme
Marek Góra, Edward Palmer
forthcoming as a chapter in: "Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension"
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12097
Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants
Delia Furtado, Kerry L. Papps, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 143, 103983
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11831
The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
Han Ye
published as 'The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1048 -1094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11769
The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health
Ben Baumberg Geiger, René Böheim, Thomas Leoni
published in: Social Science Research, 82, 18–32, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11728
Minimum Wages and Retirement
Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho
forthcoming in: ILR Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11719
Welfare Activation and Youth Crime
Bernt Bratsberg, Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 561-574
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11667
Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Philippe Ruh, Stefan Staubli
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11664
Working Beyond 65 in Ireland
Anne Nolan, Alan Barrett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11663
The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
Anne Nolan, Alan Barrett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11621
Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems
Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski, Marcin Bielecki
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11620
Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses
Maarten Lindeboom, Raymond Montizaan
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192(3), 104297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
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 2020, 1-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11511
Pension Policies in a Model with Endogenous Fertility
Giam Pietro Cipriani, Francesco Pascucci
published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11481
Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits
Robert Holzmann, Jacques Wels
published in: International Social Security Review, 2020, 73(1), 65-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11441
On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modelling, doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2018.11.002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11410
Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts
Silvia Garcia Mandico, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen, Owen O'Donnell
forthcoming in: Labour Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11341
The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Marek Góra, Irena E. Kotowska, Iga Magda, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska, Pawel Strzelecki
published as 'The Impact of Lifetime Events on Pensions: Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Schemes in Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and the Point Scheme in Germany' in: Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication, World Bank, 2019, 55 -85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11340
Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Øystein Hernaes
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101818
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. 11192
Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach
James Browne, Herwig Immervoll
published in a special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, honouring the work of Sir Anthony “Tony” Atkinson. DOI 10.1007/s10888-017-9366-6. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11121
The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System
Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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. 10903
Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
Admasu Shiferaw, Arjun S. Bedi, Mans Söderbom, Getnet Alemu
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
forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economics of Ageing
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. 10632
Welfare: Savings not Taxation
Roger Douglas, Robert MacCulloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567
Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10513
Immigrant Labor Market Integration across Admission Classes
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2017, 7 , 17-54.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10425
The Power of Social Pensions
Wei Huang, Chuanchuan Zhang
forthcoming as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10389
The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru
Juan Gabriel Delgado Montes, Javier Corrales, Prakarsh Singh
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. 10246
Spousal and Survivor Benefits in Option Value Models of Retirement: An Application to Belgium
Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10154
The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions
Dayanand Manoli, Andrea Weber
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, Volume 17, Issue 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. 10016
Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?
Xi Chen
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4): 646–659. doi:10.1111/coep.12161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9969
Aging, Retirement and Pay-As-You-Go Pensions
Giam Pietro Cipriani
published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22, 1173-1183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9944
Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Vibeke Jakobsen, Peder J. Pedersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9936
Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms
Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza Bondibene
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9834
Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers
Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Gianluca Mazzarella
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9825
The Market for Paid Sick Leave
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9821
Taxing Pensions
Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau
published in: Robert Holzmann and John Piggott (eds.), The Taxation of Pensions, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9748
The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 205-240
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9729
Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Economica ,2018, 85, 124–151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9644
Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 144-156.
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 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9620
Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, Takashi Oshio
published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168
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
Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(2), 455-476. DOI: 10.1007/s11150-015-9304-y
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