Financial incentives to postpone retirement and further effects on employment - Evidence from a natural experiment

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-486

  Hanel, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Labor force participation; Natural experiment; Retirement insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953123720     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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