Arbeitspapier
Pension incentives and early retirement
In this paper we exploit a cohort-specific pension reform to estimate the causal labour market effects of changes in the financial incentives to retire. In particular, we analyze the effects of the introduction of cohort-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment and unemployment. For the empirical analysis we use high-quality administrative data from the German pension insurance. We present evidence for sizable labour market effects. In addition to direct effects on women older than 60 we find important anticipation effects before reaching the pension eligibility age. Overall we document that the pension reform leads to a postponement of retirement, an increase in employment and a shifting in unemployment over age rather than a substitution into unemployment.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1617
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Thema
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retirement age
pension reform
labour supply
actuarial deductions
cohort-specific pension reform
labour market effects
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Engels, Barbara
Geyer, Johannes
Haan, Peter
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Engels, Barbara
- Geyer, Johannes
- Haan, Peter
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2016