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Live longer, work longer

Milan Vodopivec, +1 more
- Iss: 32, pp 65-81
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The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 389 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).

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Gaining weight through retirement? Results from the SHARE survey.

TL;DR: The results show that retirement induced by discontinuous incentives in early retirement schemes causes a 12-percentage point increase in the probability of being obese among men within a two- to four-year period.
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Age, seniority and labour costs: lessons from the Finnish IT revolution

TL;DR: Daveri et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relation between age, seniority and experience, and the main components of labour costs, namely productivity and wages, for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries (forest, industrial machinery, and electronics) in Finland during the IT revolution in the 1990s.
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The Meaning of Work for Post-retirement Employment Decisions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined four dimensions of the meaning of work relevant to predicting post-retirement employment, i.e., social, personal, financial, and generative meaning.
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The Impact of Midlife Educational, Work, Health, and Family Experiences on Men’s Early Retirement

TL;DR: This study aims to improve the understanding of retirement by examining the impact of midlife educational, work, health, and family experiences on early retirement intentions and behavior by distinguishing theoretically and empirically between financial and nonfinancial preretirement factors through which midlife experiences could affect retirement.
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Individual and institutional push and pull factors as predictors of retirement timing in Europe: A multilevel analysis.

TL;DR: The results indicate that at the individual level, older workers are pushed out due to health problems as well as being attracted towards retirement to spend time with their grandchildren.
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Why Is There Mandatory Retirement

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of agency is presented and empirical evidence which supports the hypothesis is provided, and the contract with mandatory-retirement clauses is Pareto efficient, where the date of mandatory retirement is chosen to correspond to the date for voluntary retirement, but the nature of the optimal wage profile results in a discrepancy between spot wage and spot VMP.
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Review: Computer use by older adults: A multi-disciplinary review

TL;DR: A holistic view of the study of computer use by older adults is provided, which provides a synthesis of the findings across these many disciplines, and attempts to highlight any gaps that exist.
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What works and for whom: a review of OECD countries' experiences with active labour market policies

TL;DR: In this paper, the main results of on-going OECD research into the effectiveness of active labour market policies are summarised and the main conclusions drawn from these results are summarized in detail.