@article{3a026c4e9c0044428e0c4f3d501e434c,
title = "Permanent wage cost subsidies for older workers. An effective tool for employment retention and postponing early retirement?",
abstract = "This paper examines the effects of a permanent wage cost subsidy in Belgium on employment retention, working time and hourly wage of older men. To estimate these effects we propose a semi-parametric weighted difference-in-differences estimator that accounts for endogenous stratification in the sampling from a population of men born between 1941 and 1950. We find small positive short-run impacts on working time and larger ones on the retention rate in employment, but only for employees at high risk of early retirement. The wage is not affected.",
keywords = "Wage cost subsidies, endogenous sampling, older workers, weighted difference-in-differences, Endogenous sampling, Older workers, Wage cost subsidies, Weighted difference-in-differences",
author = "Andrea Albanese and Bart Cockx",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.labeco.2018.01.005",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "145--166",
journal = "Labour Economics",
issn = "0927-5371",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}