The Recent Rise of Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Sweden / Lisa Laun, Mårten Palme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laun, Lisa.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Palme, Mårten.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24593.

NBER working paper series no. w24593

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

This paper studies the background to the increase in labor force participation of older workers in Sweden since 2000. In the first part, we study how the characteristics of the elderly have changed with respect to health, education level and work environment, as well as the impact of joint decision-making within the household. In the second part, we study the importance of institutional changes, including a major reform of the old-age pension system, introduction of tax credits for older workers, changes of the mandatory retirement age and stricter eligibility criteria in the disability insurance program. We find that the rise in labor force participation has coincided with improvements in health and educational attainment across birth cohorts as well as increased screening stringency in the disability insurance program.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2018.