Pension reform and labor supply

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hernaes, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Roed, Knut
• 署名单位: University of New South Wales Sydney
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.08.009
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 39-55
• 关键词: early retirement; labor supply; pension reform; Program evaluation

摘要

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to increases in work incentives and actuarially neutral reductions in the age of first access to pension benefits. We find that increasing the returns to work is a powerful policy: The removal of an earnings test, implying a doubling of the average net take-home wage, led to an increase in average labor supply by 7 h per week (30%) at age 63 and by 8 h (46%) at age 64. The responses primarily came at the extensive margin. In contrast, reducing the access age has almost no effect on labor supply, in our setting with actuarially fair work incentives. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.