Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113192 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Labor 5 No. E17-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed workers in Germany. The reform extends the distance to retirement for affected individuals by up to three years. We use this source of exogenous variation to estimate differences-in-differences of the reemployment hazard, thereby accounting for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and the possibility of competing risks. Previous to the estimation, we account for selection on observables by implementing matching based on entropy balancing. Our results indicate that - all other things equal - the sub-hazard of reemployment increases by 3.6% for each month by which the early retirement age is raised. The effect is large in absolute and relative terms and implies that unemployment as a pathway into early retirement is less prevalent. Thus, raising the distance to retirement substantially reduces public costs from non-employment.
JEL: 
J14
J26
J64
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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