This work is an analysis and country-by-country comparison of the effects of social security incentives on retirement behaviour in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the United States. Num Pages: 752 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1108. . 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226310183
ISBN 13: 9780226310183
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages in developed countries. Provisions of many social security programs typically encourage retirement by reducing pay for work, inducing older employees to leave the labor force early and magnifying the financial burden caused by an aging population. At a certain age there is simply no financial benefit to continuing to work.

In this volume, the authors turn to a country-by-country analysis of retirement behavior based on micro-data. The result of research compiled by teams in twelve countries, the volume shows an almost uniform correlation between levels of social security incentives and retirement behavior in each country. The estimates also show that the effect is strikingly uniform in countries with very different cultural histories, labor market institutions, and other social characteristics.

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Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics and head of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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