The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation

Laurence Kotlikoff and David Wise ()

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Abstract: Kotlikoff and Wise document the continued backloading of pension benefits and the extent of retirement incentives by examining pension accrual in over 1,500 companies with defined benefit plans. They also perform a detailed analysis on the retirement plan of a "Fortune 500" company.

Keywords: backloading; pensions; retirement decisions; retirement income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J32 J33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
ISBN: paper 9780880990813
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