Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/66900 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
QSEP Research Report No. 446
Publisher: 
McMaster University, Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP), Hamilton (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Measures of retirement that take a cohort perspective are appealing since retirement patterns may change, and it would be useful to have consistent measures that would make it possible to compare retirement patterns over time and between countries or regions. We propose and implement two measures. One is based on administrative income tax records and relates to actual cohorts; the other is based on a time-series of cross sectional labour force surveys and relates to pseudo-cohorts. We conclude that while the tax-based observations for actual cohorts provide a richer data set for analysis, the estimated measures of retirement and transition from work to retirement based on the two data sets are quite similar.
Subjects: 
measures of retirement
cohort perspective
JEL: 
J14
J26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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