Occupations and retirement across countries

Philip Sauré, Arthur Seibold, Elizaveta Smorodenkova and Hosny Zoabi

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

Abstract: We study the role of occupations for 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 an important predictor of aggregate retirement behavior across 45 countries. Our findings suggest that events affecting occupational structure, such as skill-biased technological change or international trade, can have consequences for aggregate retirement behavior and social security systems.

Keywords: retirement; occupations; labor force composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 H55 J14 J24 J26 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2025-06-30
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 30, June, 2025, 31. ISSN: 2212-828X

Downloads: (external link)
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/127787/ Open access version. (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:127787

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library LSE Library Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD, U.K.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by LSERO Manager ().