Technical progress, retraining cost and early retirement

Lorenzo Burlon and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi

No 963, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: Technological progress affects early retirement in two opposing ways. On the one hand, it increases real wages and thus produces an incentive to postpone retirement. On the other hand, it erodes workers' skills, making early retirement more likely. Using the Health and Retirement Study surveys, we re-examine the effect of technical progress on early retirement, finding that when the technical change is small the erosion effect dominates, but when it is large the wage effect dominates. Our results imply that retraining cost is a strongly concave function with respect to technical progress.

Keywords: technical progress; retraining; retirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J26 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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