Social security programs and retirement around the world
Subtitle: micro-estimation
By: edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise.
Contributors: Gruber, Jonathan.; Wise, David A.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
Subjects: Social security; Retirement -- Economic aspects; Retirement income; Older people -- Employment
Description: This book represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labour. In this volume, the authors turn to a country-by-country analysis of retirement behaviour based on micro-data. The result of research compiled by teams in twelve countries, an almost uniform correlation between levels of social security incentives and retirement behaviour in each country is shown. The estimates also show that the effect is strikingly uniform in countries with very different cultural histories, labour market institutions, and other social characteristics.
Notes: "This is the second volume presenting results of an ongoing project ... organized through the Program on the Economics of Aging at the National Bureau of Economic Research."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and summary / -- Jonathan Gruber, -- David A. Wise; title: Micro-modeling of retirement in Belgium -- Arnaud Dellis ... [et al.]; title: Income security programs and retirement in Canada -- Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan -- The; title: Impact of incentives on retirement in Denmark -- Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen; title: Estimating models of retirement behavior on French data -- Ronan Mahieu, -- Didier Blanchet; title: Micro-modeling of retirement decisions in Germany -- Axel Börsch-Supan ... [et al.]; title: Micro-modeling of retirement behavior in Italy -- Agar Brugiavini, -- Franco Peracchi; title: Social security and retirement in Japan: an evaluation using micro-data -- Takashi Oshio, -- Akiko Sato Oishi; title: Incentives and exit routes to retirement in the Netherlands -- Klaas de Vos, -- Arie Kapteyn; title: Micro-modeling of retirement behavior in Spain -- Michele Boldrin, Sergi Jiménez-Martin, and Franco Peracchi; title: Income security programs and retirement in Sweden -- Mårten Palme, -- Ingemar Svensson; title: Pension incentives and the pattern of retirement in the United Kingdom -- Richard Blundell, Costas Meghir, and Sarah Smith; title: The effect of social security on retirement in the United States-- Courtney Coile,-- Jonathan Gruber.