Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130295 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9619
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into account. We also estimate a competing risks model considering different (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as participants keep accumulating full pension rights. However, as participants become eligible for early retirement subsequently, these larger financial incentives induce them to leave the labour force prematurely. These adverse incentives are stronger for individuals who reduce their working time most. After two (four) years for men (women), the positive effects reverse. The more favourable effect for women is likely a consequence of their lower opportunities to enter early retirement. The gradual retirement scheme fails the cost-benefit test.
Subjects: 
part-time work
older workers
Inverse Probability Weighting
dynamic selection into treatment
endogenous sampling
JEL: 
J14
C22
J18
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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