Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden / Mårten Palme, Lisa Laun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palme, Mårten.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Laun, Lisa.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25394.

NBER working paper series no. w25394

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

We show how the economic incentives to remain in the labor force induced by Sweden's public old-age pension system and disability insurance program have changed between 1980 and 2015. Based on earnings histories for different hypothetical individuals corresponding to groups by gender and educational attainments we calculate the following measures: the replacement rate (RR), the social security wealth (SSW), the accrual in the social security wealth from working one additional year as well as the implicit tax rate on working longer (ITAX). We then investigate to what extent the observed changes in these measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2018.