Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain

Richard Disney () and Carl Emmerson ()
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Richard Disney: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Sussex
Carl Emmerson: Institute for Fiscal Studies and Institute for Fiscal Studies

No W02/09, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household panel data for the 1990s to show that individuals that subsequently move job select pension arrangements that a priori impose lower costs on job mobility. A feature of the British policy experiment, and of the data, is that we can differentiate between choice of actual pension arrangement by the individual and what pension arrangements were offered to that individual. This permits us to test indirectly whether the observed relationship arises from employer selection or from pension scheme design.

Keywords: Pensions; job tenure; labour mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J32 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2002-05-30
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