Minimum Hours Constraints and Retirement Behavior

Alan Gustman () and Thomas L. Steinmeier

No 940, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper presents statistics which confirm the existence of minimum hours constraints for jobs held by a majority of prime aged male workers who are not self employed. It then considers the implications of these constraints for studies of retirement behavior and related policy analyses. Potential biases associated with conventional analyses, which either ignore the existence of minimum hours constraints or assume they are pervasive, are discussed in the context of structural life cycle retirement models. A more realistic but still imperfect specification, which can be estimated given available data, assumes minimum hours constraints on the main job and variable hours elsewhere.

Date: 1982-07
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Published as Gustman, Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier. "Minimum Hours Constraints and Retirement Behavior." Contemporary Policy Issues, (Supplement to Economic Inquiry), No. 3, (April 1983), pp. 77-91.

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