Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51894 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5863
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results from the empirical analysis suggest that this policy change reduced retirement by 19 percentage points among affected men and by 25 percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 percentage points among men and 10 percentage points among women, but had also important spillover effects into the unemployment insurance program. Specifically, the unemployment rate increased by 10 percentage points among men and 11 percentage points among women. In contrast, the policy change had only a small impact on the share of individuals claiming disability or partial retirement benefits.
Subjects: 
early retirement
retirement age
labor supply
policy reform
JEL: 
J14
J26
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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