Phasing Into Retirement / Steven G. Allen, Robert L. Clark, Linda S. Ghent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Steven G.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Clark, Robert L.

Ghent, Linda S.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9779.

NBER working paper series no. w9779

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.

Summary:

Employers have been launching phased retirement programs to help workers navigate the transition from work to retirement more effectively. This paper examines the experience of the phased retirement system for tenured faculty in the University of North Carolina system. After phased retirement was introduced, there was a sizable increase in the overall separation rate in the system. A multinomial logit model of the retirement decision as a function of pension incentives, employee performance, demographics, and campus characteristics is developed. The key empirical result is that the odds of entering phased retirement are strongly and inversely related to employee performance, as measured by recent pay increases.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2003.