Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

No 2273, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and a partial disability pension. The special partial pension scheme became very popular with a high take-up rate and was criticized for being too expensive. As a part of the decision on the old age pension scheme in 1994, the partial pension scheme was made less generous, and the scheme was totally abolished from year 2001. The other two options for combining work and receiving a pension continue. In this paper the effect on the total number of hours worked of the subsidized part-time pension system is analysed. The analysis indicates that the effect that people continue to work part-time instead of taking an early exit route is larger than the effect that people who would have continued to work full-time until ordinary retirement age instead work part-time.

Keywords: labour supply; older workers; part-time pension; part-time work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J14 J22 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2006-08
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Published - published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45

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