The Effects of Social Security Incentives on Retirement in Spain

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Silvia Garcia-Mandicó, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Judit Vall Castello

No 31956, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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 histories 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 ocurrence 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.

JEL-codes: H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-12
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Published as The Effects of Social Security Incentives on Retirement in Spain , Pilar García-Gómez, Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Judit Vall-Castelló. in Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior , Börsch-Supan and Coile. 2025

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