Social security programs and retirement around the world micro-estimation / [electronic resource] :
edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.
- University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- 1 online resource (ix, 741 p.) : ill.
- A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report .
- National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. .
Data report from a special project not part of a conference. An analysis and country-by-country comparison of the effects of social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the United States.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Micro-modeling of retirement in Belgium / Income security programs and retirement in Canada / The impact of incentives on retirement in Denmark / Estimating models of retirement behavior on French data / Micro-modeling of retirement decisions in Germany / Micro-modeling of retirement behavior in Italy / Social security and retirement in Japan: an evaluation using micro-data / Incentives and exit routes to retirement in the Netherlands / Micro-modeling of retirement behavior in Spain / Income security programs and retirement in Sweden / Pension incentives and the pattern of retirement in the United Kingdom / The effect of social security on retirement in the United States / Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise -- Arnaud Dellis ... [et al.] -- Michael Baker ... [et al.] -- Paul Bingley ... [et al.] -- Ronan Mahieu, Didier Blanchet -- Axel Börsch-Supan ... [et al.] -- Agar Brugiavini, Franco Peracchi -- Takashi Oshio, Akiko Sato Oishi -- Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn -- Michele Boldrin ... [et al.] -- Mårten Palme, Ingemar Svensson -- Richard Blundell ... [et al.] -- Courtney Coile, Jonathan Gruber. Introduction and summary /
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages in developed countries. Provisions of many social security programs typically encourage retirement by reducing pay for work, inducing older employees to leave the labor force early and magnifying the financial burden caused by an aging population. At a certain age there is simply no financial benefit to.