Occupations Shape Retirement across Countries

Philip Sauré, Arthur Seibold, Elizaveta Smorodenkova and Hosny Zoabi

No 10365, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and retirement that is present across institutional settings. Finally, we find that occupational composition is highly predictive of aggregate retirement behavior across 45 countries. Our findings suggest that events affecting occupational structure, such as skill-biased technological change or international trade, have consequences for aggregate retirement behavior and social security systems.

Keywords: retirement; occupational distribution; cross-country analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 H55 J14 J24 J26 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem and nep-lma
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