Social security programs and retirement around the world : the effects of reforms on retirement behavior

edited by Axel Börsch-Supan and Courtney C. Coile

"Employment among older men and women has increased dramatically in recent years, reversing a downward trend in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior examines how changing retirement incentives have reshaped labor force participation trends among older workers. The chapters feature country-specific analyses for Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US. They find that while there is significant heterogeneity across countries, the reforms of recent decades have generally reduced the implicit tax on work at older ages. These changes correlate positively with labor force participation. The studies exploit the variation in the timing and extent of reforms of retirement incentives and employ microeconometric methods to investigate whether this correlation reflects a causal relationship. Policy changes appear to have contributed to rising labor force activity, but other factors like the role of women in the labor force, improved health, and changes in private pensions likely also play important roles."

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Year of publication:	2025
Other Persons:	Börsch-Supan, Axel (ed.) ; Coile, Courtney (ed.)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (issuing body)
Publisher:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Soziale Sicherheit \| Social security \| Flexible Altersgrenze \| Flexible retirement \| Ältere Arbeitskräfte \| Older workers \| Altersgrenze \| Retirement \| Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung \| Public pension system \| Welt \| World
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]
Published items:	12 hits in ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Extent:	ix, 425 Seiten Illustrationen
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction / Axel Börsch-Supan and Courtney C. Coile -- Trends in social security incentives in Belgium / Anne-Lore Fraikin, Alain Jousten, and Mathieu Lefebvre -- Retirement decisions and retirement incentives: new evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- The role of social security reforms in explaining changing retirement behavior in Denmark, 1980-2016 / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, and Peder J. Pedersen -- Financial incentives and labor force participation of older workers: evidence from France / Antoine Bozio, Simon Rabaté, Maxime Tô, and Julie Tréguier -- Retirement decisions in Germany: micromodeling / Axel Börsch-Supan, Irene Ferrari, Nicolas Goll, and Johannes Rausch -- The effect of retirement incentives: microevidence for Italy / Agar Brugiavini, Raluca Elena Buia, Giacomo Pasini, and Guglielmo Weber -- The relationship between social security programs and elderly employment in Japan / Takashi Oshio, Satoshi Shimizutani, and Akiko S. Oishi -- The effects of social insurance benefits on leaving employment at older ages in the Netherlands / Adriaan Kalwij and Arie Kapteyn -- The effects of social security incentives on retirement in Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall-Castelló -- Pension reform, incentives to retire, and retirement behavior: empirical evidence from Swedish microdata / Lisa Laun and Mårten Palme -- Are longer working lives a response to changing financial incentives?: exploiting micro panel data from the UK / James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and David Sturrock -- Changing retirement incentives and retirement in the US / Courtney C. Coile.
ISBN:	978-0-226-83635-5 ; 978-0-226-83636-2
Other identifiers:	10.7208/chicago/9780226836362.001.0001 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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