The effects of Social Security Incentives on Retirement in Spain

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Judit Vall-Castelló

No eee2019-38, Studies on the Spanish Economy from FEDEA

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the extent to what financial incentives have influenced individual and couples retirement decisions over the last two decades in Spain. We use administrative data on earnings history to create synthetic measures of financial incentives that we link to individual survey data from the European Community Household Panel and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The occurrence of several major reforms in the period largely facilitates identification. We find that retirement is highly responsive to incentive variables (both ITAX and SSW). We find that a 10% change in the implicit tax rate on working longer increases the probability of retiring by about 0.70 pp (0.90 pp for men and 0.54 for women). Furthermore we find that couple incentives matter more in husband’s retirement decisions than in wife’s retirement decisions.

Date: 2019-11
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Chapter: The Effects of Social Security Incentives on Retirement in Spain (2024)
Working Paper: The Effects of Social Security Incentives on Retirement in Spain (2023)
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