Pension reform and labor supply

Erik Hernaes (), Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Knut Røed ()

Journal of Public Economics, 2016, vol. 142, issue C, 39-55

Abstract: 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 7h per week (30%) at age 63 and by 8h (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.

Keywords: Early retirement; Labor supply; Pension reform; Program evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 H3 J1 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.08.009

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