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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gruber is professor of economics at MIT and director of the Program on Children at the NBER, where he is a research associate. He is coeditor of the Journal of Public Economics , and associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics . 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 the Programs on Aging and Health Care at the NBER. 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 The future of retirement programs is troubled! both in United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. This title examines the consequences of reforming retirement benefits in a dozen nations. It evaluates the effects of illustrative policies for countries facing the impending growth of social security benefits. ...
