Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions / Dayanand S. Manoli, Andrea Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manoli, Dayanand S.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Weber, Andrea.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17320.

NBER working paper series no. w17320

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

This paper presents new empirical evidence on the effects of retirement benefits on labor force participation decisions. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated discontinuous changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We present graphical evidence documenting labor supply responses to the policy discontinuities. Next, we develop nonparametric procedures to estimate labor supply elasticities based on the graphical evidence and mandated financial incentives. We estimate elasticities of 0.12 for men and 0.38 for women. These relatively low elasticities highlight that many retirement decisions are likely to be affected by factors beyond only financial incentives from retirement benefits.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2011.