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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Economic Retirement Age and Lifelong Learning - A Theoretical Model with Heterogeneous Labor, Biased Technical Change and International Sourcing
Published in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 6257
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (46 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2909637
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 10, 2017 erstellt
Description:
The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age resulting in permanent non-employability of older workers. We analyze this phenomenon in a putty-putty human capital vintage model and focus on education and the speed of human capital depreciation. Introducing a two-stage education system with initial schooling and lifelong learning, not even lifelong learning turns out to be capable of aligning economic and statutory retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their working life, and hence will substitute for simple social transfers, or for an early switch towards very low paid jobs