Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World - Micro-Estimation

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of research for the National Bureau of Economic Research's program on children. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of health and retirement programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Klappentext 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 continuing to work. In this volume, the authors turn to a country-by-country analysis of retirement behavior based on micro-data. The result of research compiled by teams in twelve countries, the volume shows an almost uniform correlation between levels of social security incentives and retirement behavior in each country. The estimates also show that the effect is strikingly uniform in countries with very different cultural histories, labor market institutions, and other social characteristics. Zusammenfassung This work is an analysis and country-by-country comparison of the effects of social security incentives on retirement behaviour in Belgium! Canada! Denmark! France! Germany! Italy! Japan! The Netherlands! Spain! Sweden! the UK! and the United States.

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• Authors: Jonathan Gruber, Jonathan (EDT)/ Wise Gruber, Jonathan Wise Gruber, GRUBER JONATHAN WISE DAVID A, David A. Wise
• Assisted by: Jonathan Gruber (Editor), David A Wise (Editor), David A. Wise (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2004
• EAN: 9780226310183
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31018-3
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Re; National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; National Bureau of Economic Re; (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education