A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden

Daniel Hallberg

No 2003:23, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in working time from fulltime to part-time employment.

Keywords: Retirement; pension schemes; unemployment; sickness; disability; working hours; longitudinal individual data set; register-based income data; transition matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J21 J22 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2003-09-17
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