Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75751 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 438
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals' incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different social security schemes may a¤ect welfare, human capital investment and labor supply. We analyze and compare three different social security systems. Our results suggest that actuarial adjustment and the link between individual social security contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement.
Subjects: 
Social security
retirement
education
human capital
labor supply
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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