The effect of disability pension incentives on early retirement decisions

Labour Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 595-607

  Hanel, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disability pensions; Labour force exit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864518973     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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