Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest () and James Banks

No 13536, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and dynamics of self-reported work disability and labor force status. To that end we specify a two-equation dynamic panel data model describing the dynamics of labor force status and self-reported work disability. When we apply the U.S. parameters to the equations for the thirteen European countries we consider, the result is generally that work disability is lower and employment is higher. Furthermore, measures of employment protection across the different countries suggest that increased employment protection reduces reentry into the labor force and hence is a major factor explaining employment differences in the pre-retirement years.

JEL-codes: C81 I12 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-10
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Published as Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences , Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest, James Banks. in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging , Wise. 2010

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