Arbeitspapier

Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for 'active ageing' and the 'Lisbon strategy' of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of exit from the workforce is assessed by non-parametric estimation of survival rates in the labour force. The results indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2010:2

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Education
Social Security and Public Pensions
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Education: Government Policy
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Thema
Adult education
retirement
human capital
labour supply
pensions
Humankapital
Erwachsenenbildung
Altersgrenze
Schweden

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
de Luna, Xavier
Stenberg, Anders
Westerlund, Olle
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • de Luna, Xavier
  • Stenberg, Anders
  • Westerlund, Olle
  • Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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