Negative correlation between retirement age and contribution length?

Erik Granseth, Wolfgang Keck (), Wolfgang Nagl, Melinda Tir () and Andras Simonovits ()
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Erik Granseth: Swedish Pensions Agency
Wolfgang Keck: Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin für Socialforschung
Melinda Tir: Databank of the Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Andras Simonovits: Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and also Mathematical Institute of Budapest University of Technology, Budapest

No 1633, CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS from Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

Abstract: Though never stated explicitly, there is a hidden hypothesis that in a normal pension system, the retirement age and the contribution length are strongly and positively correlated. We compare the time paths of male and female correlation coefficients in Austria, Hungary, Germany and Sweden for several years and categories; and obtain a mixed picture. Hungary stands out with its strong negative correlation but the remaining three countries cannot boast with strongly positive correlation, either. Further work is needed to understand the significance of our findings but they signal some problems with these systems: heterogeneously fragmented careers and unfair benefit rules.

Keywords: public pension system; length of employment; fragmented careers; retirement age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J26 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2016-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eur and nep-pbe
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