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We analyse the pattern of work and other labour market states, such as unemployment and out-of-labour-force, over the life course, by making use of a long retrospective panel of older Europeans. Based on stochastic simulations of a reduced form transition probability model, we document to what extent social policies over the life course affect employment trajectories both in the long run and in the short run. We focus on two types of reforms that have taken place in various European countries over the lifetime of the panel participants: increases in compulsory school age and increases in pension eligibility age.
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![Agar Brugiavini](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Agar%20Brugiavini_0.jpg?itok=1g0Cw4qs)
Research Fellow Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Agar is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Venice,
![Guglielmo Weber](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Guglielmo%20Weber.jpg?itok=nqNwcCi-)
Research Associate University of Padua
Guglielmo is a Research Associate at the IFS and Professor in the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Statistics, Padua University.
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Stanford University
Thomas is a Professor at Stanford University and an International Fellow of IFS. His research interests include the consequences and incentives of income transfer programs (e.g., welfare, Medicare, unemployment compensation), labour economics and health economics.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Giuseppe De Luca
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2020.1820
- Publisher
- The IFS
Suggested citation
Brugiavini, A et al. (2020). The effects of social policies on the working careers of Europeans. London: The IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/effects-social-policies-working-careers-europeans (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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