Mandatory Retirement’s Effect on Mutual Agreement Severance Pay : Evidence from a Swedish Reform

With a novel approach, I study the utility of mandatory retirement clauses in labor contracts, by using severance payment deals to measure employers’ willingness to pay to get rid of olderworkers. I compile a data set covering 5,363 incidences of severance payments from a sampleof Swedish public emp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ottmer, Henning
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2020
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415555