Arbeitspapier
Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage pro le will have different incentives for workers as compared to firms when it comes to the retirement date. Using an instrumental variable approach to account for selection of workers in our firms and for reverse causality, we find that firms with higher labor costs for older workers are associated with lower job exit age.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper, CD-Lab Aging, Health and the Labor Market, Johannes Kepler University ; No. 1506
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Social Security and Public Pensions
- Thema
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retirement
seniority wages
firm incentives
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Frimmel, Wolfgang
Horvath, Thomas
Schnalzenberger, Mario
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Johannes Kepler University Linz, Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market
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Linz
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Frimmel, Wolfgang
- Horvath, Thomas
- Schnalzenberger, Mario
- Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
- Johannes Kepler University Linz, Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market
Entstanden
- 2015