Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19011 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1547
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper suggests that pension characteristics are simultaneously determined along with workers? retirement ages. Both the age of pension eligibility and actual retirement age are determined by the productivity and marginal disutility of work, factors that are influenced by worker and job characteristics. This approach differs from previous studies of retirement that treat pensions as exogenous, implying that prior empirical work may have overestimated the responsiveness of retirement age to changes in pension structure, a possibility with obvious policy implications for efforts to raise the age of retirement. We find that, in the conventional single-equation framework, delaying the age of pension eligibility would significantly delay retirement. When treated in a recursive simultaneous system, however, age of pension eligibility retains no explanatory power.
Subjects: 
social security
early retirement
job characteristics
pension eligibility
JEL: 
H55
H31
J26
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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